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Amal Ghandour is a Lebanese-Jordanian author and blogger (Thinking Fits), with a career that spans more than three decades in the fields of research, communication, and community development. Her book, About This Man Called Ali (2009), was named the first biography of a modern Arab artist by the renowned Historian Philip Mansel. Get to know her with 11 Questions!  

Ghandour describes her new book, This Arab Life, A Generation\u2019s Journey Into Silence, \u201cas a memoir that is not of an individual but of the generation that came of political age in the 1980s in the Levant.\u201d This Arab Life, she adds, \u201cis an intimate rendition of the times that shaped us; the way we internalized our parents\u2019 myriad dejections and disappointments; the pragmatism and silence that defined us; and the dispiriting inheritance we inexorably bequeathed our own children.\u201d\u2060  

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