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Amin Maalouf
“On a souvent dit, au vu de ces scènes irréelles, que les hommes de Hassan [Sabbah] étaient drogués. Comment expliquer autrement qu'ils [l'Ordre des Assassins] aillent au-devant de la mort avec le sourire ? On a accrédité la thèse qu'ils agissaient sous l'effet du haschisch. Marco Polo a popularisé cette idée en Occident ; leurs ennemis dans le monde musulman les ont parfois appelés haschichiyoun, "fumeurs de haschisch", pour les déconsidérer ; certains orientalistes ont cru voir dans ce terme l'origine du mot "assassin" qui est devenu, dans plusieurs langues européennes, synonyme de meurtrier. Le mythe des "Assassins" n'en a été que plus terrifiant.
La vérité est autre. D'après les textes qui nous sont parvenus d'Alamout, Hassan aimait à appeler ses adeptes Assassiyoun, ceux qui sont fidèles au Assass [أساس], au "Fondement" de la foi, et c'est ce mot, mal compris des voyageurs étrangers, qui a semblé avoir des relents de haschisch.”
Amin Maalouf, Samarkand

Samanta Schweblin
“Yo siempre pienso en el peor de los casos. Ahora mismo estoy calculando cuánto tardaría en salir corriendo del coche y llegar hasta Nina si ella corriera de pronto hasta la pileta y se tirara. Lo llamo "distancia de rescate", así llamo a esa distancia variable que me separa de mi hija y me paso la mitad del día calculándola, aunque siempre arriesgo más de lo que debería.”
Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream

Amin Maalouf
“Mosul, the native city of the historian Ibn al-Athir, was the capital of Jazira, or Mesopotamia, the fertile plain watered by the two great rivers Tigris and Euphrates. It was a political, cultural, and economic centre of prime importance. The Arabs boasted of its succulent fruit: its apples, pears, grapes, and pomegranates. The fine cloth it exported - called 'muslin', a word derived from the city's name - was known throughout the world. At the time of the arrival of the Franj, the people of the emir Karbuqa's realm were already exploiting another natural resource, which the traveller Ibn Jubayr was to describe with amazement a few dozen years later: deposits of naphtha. This precious dark liquid, which would one day make the fortune of this part of the world, already offered travellers an unforgettable spectacle.”
Amin Maalouf, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

Margaret Atwood
“La normalità, diceva Zia Lydia, significa ciò cui si è abituati. Se qualcosa potrà non sembrarvi normale al momento, dopo un po' di tempo lo sarà. Diventerà normale."
Margaret Atwood, Il racconto dell'ancella, traduzione di Camillo Pennati”
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

Fady Joudah
“Mimesis

My daughter

wouldn’t hurt a spider

That had nested
Between her bicycle handles
For two weeks
She waited
Until it left of its own accord

If you tear down the web I said
It will simply know
This isn’t a place to call home
And you’d get to go biking

She said that’s how others
Become refugees isn’t it?”
Fady Joudah

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