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The now-famous Syrian novelist Khaled Khalifa, who is still inside Syria. His last novel, “No Knives in This City’s Kitchens”, has been short-listed for the prestigious Booker Prize. In an recent interview with the Lebanese Daily Star newspaper he said:
‘The [Syrian] regime thinks it has always been in control. The reality is that the regime lived outside the homes of the Syrians because it was unable to offer them anything of value. It only got inside the homes to conduct sabotage.’
Source: The Daily Star, 7 February 2014,
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Books/2014/Feb-07/246761-novelist-khaled-khalifa-on-breaking-the-barrier-of-fear.ashx
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