- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Arabic
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1982, Algeria made their first appearance at the World Cup. I believe it was the first Arab country to do so.
- Players
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- Nov 07, 2020
The relationship between France and its 'foreign' players - blacks and North African Arabs - has always been troubled, particularly with Algerians.
- Needs
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.
- Assumed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gifts exchanging hands under the tables.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1975, I left the burning city of Beirut for the quiet insanity of England. To say that short, frail and wispy 15-year-old me didn't fit in would be such an understatement as to be a joke.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade with the Red Army in Moscow or sashayed the Yves St. Laurent catwalk with supermodels or hunted seals with the Inuit or - well, you get the idea.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, soccer was a dance.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
- Charming
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, I used to find stories about divas charming. Not much anymore.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
- Civil War
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the summer of 1988, my father took me up to look at the remains of our home, the dream house that he'd built. It was my first time since our family left four years earlier. Political and obscene graffiti covered the half-torn walls. There was no ceiling and surprisingly no floor: the parquet, the stone, the marble, all looted.
- Close Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020