Notes
1
Hassan Daoud is a Lebanese novelist living and working in Beirut. He made this admission in an international panel discussion organized by Documenta 12 in Vienna on November 19, 2006.
2
Ismail Haniyeh is the disputed Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority and a senior political leader of Hamas. Partick Seale is a British writer on the Middle East.
Translated from the Arabic by Karl Sharro.
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