4 Quotes & Sayings By Weam Namou

Weam Namou (born 1980) is a French-Lebanese writer and philosopher. He lives between Paris and Beirut. He is the author of the novels Le Fleuve et le miroir (2009), L’Exil (2010), and Nous ne sommes rien (2013). A graduate of the Sorbonne, he spent two years in Beirut as a student and has since lived in Paris, where he currently works as a social anthropologist Read more

Weam Namou is the recipient of numerous awards including: Prix Nicephore Niepce (France, 2009), Prix d’Europe pour la jeunesse (France, 2010), Prix de l’Académie de lettres d'Alger (Algeria, 2011), Prix du Docent pour la littérature francophone (France, 2011), Grand prix des jeunes écrivains de France (2011), and Prix de littérature d’Algérie (2013). He has also been an invited speaker at conferences and universities around the world.

The people who encouraged you to change will oftentimes, after...
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The people who encouraged you to change will oftentimes, after you change, accuse you of having changed. Weam Namou
My first-year mentor Leslie taught me that the hurrieder we...
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My first-year mentor Leslie taught me that the hurrieder we go, the behinder we get. Weam Namou
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On January 17, 1991 and for the 43 days that followed, I watched CNN’s live coverage of SCUD missiles and bombs fall over Baghdad like rain; then the 12 ½ years of unjust sanctions that killed approximately a million Iraqis, half of which were children under the age of five; then an unjust attack in 2003 that opened the borders to terrorists from all over the world and reduced the cradle of civilization to piles of rubble. The gov. asked us to support their plan or else be considered anti- American and undemocratic and they ask of us the same today, 25 years later, even though history proved they were pro-profit not pro-life. Weam Namou