Ibrāhīm al-Kōnī

Ibrāhīm al-Kōnī (sometimes translated as Ibrāhīm Kūnī) (Arabic: ابراهيم الكوني) is a Libyan writer and is considered to be one of the most prolific Arab novelists.https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ibrahim_al-Koni&action=edit Quotes Homeland does not take on the meaning of 'homeland' until we have been exiled from it.https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220825-ibrahim-al-koni-homeland-does-not-take-on-the-meaning-of-homeland-until-we-have-been-exiled-from-it/?hl=en-US#:~:text=Ibrahim%20Al%2DKoni%3A%20'Homeland%20does%20not%20take%20on,exiled%20from%20it'%20%E2%80%93%20Middle%20East%20Monitor. The desert is a homeland that has migrated.https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/ccs.2012.0064?hl=en-US The desert is not a land wasted by deprivation. The desert is a land that use has destroyed. The desert was a merciless place. When the curse of shame sticks to a person there, he is stricken from memory." https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/ccs.2012.0064?hl=en-US Trade is the archenemy of all wild refuges. Commerce is the enemy of deliverance, and any enemy of deliverance is my enemy.https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/2993205.Ibrahim_al_Koni?page=2&hl=en-US#:~:text=Trade%20is%20the%20archenemy%20of%20all%20wild,Seth%3A%20A%20Modern%20Arabic%20Novel%20from%20Libya. We are not heroic when we punish. We are heroic when we forgive." https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/2993205.Ibrahim_al_Koni?page=2&hl=en-US#:~:text=I%20bet%20this%20is%20what%20the%20tribes,inhumane%20are%20the%20commandments%20of%20the%20Law! Wisdom is the poetry of the wise, and poetry is the wisdom of the poets. You cannot hold the heart of the beloved without having first lost your own. References