Exile and the Kingdom

February 12, 2004 | This article appeared in the March 1, 2004 edition of The Nation.

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The world of letters lost one of its most eloquent voices on January 24, when the Saudi novelist Abdelrahman Munif died in his Damascus exile after a protracted illness.

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Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali is an editor at New Left Review. His latest book is The Duel: Pakistan on the Flightpath of American Power (...

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