AFRICAN ODYSSEY OF A LEBANESE EMIGRANT BY HABIB JAAFAAR

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An authentic testimony of the beauty of struggle, in a life story that navigated in the times of civil wars,
and was able to read life as a literary work, and to understand literature as the spiritual dimension of
life.
—Elias Khoury, Lebanese novelist and public intellectual

Habib Jaafar’s life seems to find the most joy in literature. Here is a clearly cultivated man, a voracious
consumer of every writer from Tolstoy to Soyinka, to the great Lebanese poet and writer Gibran Khalil
Gibran. Philosophers, historians, poets and musicians make an appearance. Here is a closet intellectual
masquerading as a businessman, a very successful businessman at that.
—Dele Olojode, Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist

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