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.

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• Rabih Alameddine:

  I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gif

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  In 1975, I left the burning city of Beirut for the quiet insanity of England. To say that short, fr

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  I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade wi

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  For me, soccer was a dance.

• Rabih Alameddine:

  A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.

• Rabih Alameddine:

  When I was younger, I used to find stories about divas charming. Not much anymore.

• Rabih Alameddine:

  I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the l

• Rabih Alameddine:

  I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.

• Rabih Alameddine:

  When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England

• Rabih Alameddine:

  In the summer of 1988, my father took me up to look at the remains of our home, the dream house tha