“‘Toi, Paris, tu m’as pris dans tes bras — You, Paris, you took me into your arms.’ So sang Enrico Macias, an Algerian-born Jew, in his 1964 anthem.

The song was a big hit in France, especially among French Jews, and I remember my parents happily singing along with the catchy tune. France had welcomed my family with open arms after we were suddenly expelled from Egypt with nowhere to go, leaving our possessions and loved ones behind. Eventually my large extended Jewish family settled in Paris and the trauma of our exodus was eclipsed by our happy and successful integration into a new society. We were reborn.”

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“‘Everyone should write at least one book in their lifetime,’ my nephew Jason once declared with great conviction. I remember pondering the thought at the time, struck by the maturity of the remark coming from a teenage boy.

Fast forward 15 years and a novel under my belt, I can now vouch for the wisdom and insightfulness of my nephew’s observation. We should all write a book, one that reflects our individuality and gives substance to our ideas, a book to be shared with the world.”

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“As an Egyptian-born Jew, I am profoundly disturbed by the depth of the hatred that has escalated between Arabs and Jews in the Middle East. After facing cultural extinction, I want to give a voice to Middle Eastern and North African Jews, as well as provide a better understanding and insight into the historical coexistence of two peoples who are now sworn enemies.”

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“Let’s face it, a change in career mid-life can be challenging, and when such change is not motivated by an external circumstance but purely out of an emotional need to express oneself in a different way, it borders on lunacy. Yet this is exactly what I did when I put the brakes on my career as an attorney some 13 years ago and set out to write what I hoped would be an entertaining and informative historical novel that would be a catharsis for me as well.”

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