On Identity Amin Maalouf

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In Amin Maalouf’s book “In the Name of Identity” Maalouf emphasizes that we should not judge people on one singular identity He argues that “Identity can’t be compartmentalized You can’t divide it up into halves or thirds or any other separate segments.

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In his novel Ports of Call [Les Échelles du Levant] (originally published in French in 1996) Amin Maalouf presents two protagonists who attempt to swerve from performing their identity roles that their societies expect As a result the two characters face several obstacles which prove the difficulty of the assimilation of different identities.

In the Name of Identity Book Summary, by Amin Maalouf

A big part of On Identity is devoted to the question of how we form our personal identity Maalouf argues that “each one of us has two heritages a “vertical” one that comes to us from our ancestors our religious community and our popular traditions and a “horizontal” one transmitted to us by our contemporaries and by the age we live in.

A New Concept of Identity Facing History and Ourselves

Worldwide famous writer Amin Maalouf was born in Lebanon in 1949 in a Christian family The first tellings and books he read were in Arabic that was what inspired him for the rest of his life At the age of 27 he moved to France and has lived there for 22 years The majority of his books were written in French.