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“I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage.”
Source: Nobel Lecture, Stockholm, 8 December 1988 (read on his behalf by Mohamed Salmawy)
Context The first Arabic-language writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature did not travel to Stockholm; the two civilisations he named were the Pharaonic and the Islamic.
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