Maalouf, Amin (b. 1949). Lebanese historian, journalist, and novelist, living in Paris since 1976. He is editor of Jeune Afrique, and his writing bridges the gap between Europe and the Arab world, for instance Les Croisades vues par les Arabes (1983), Léon l'Africain (1986), and Les Jardins de lumière (1991). In 1993 he won the Prix Goncourt for the novel Le Rocher de Tanios, a weave of history and fiction whose hero comes from a village in mid-19th-c. Lebanon.

— Dorothy Blair

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