Book review

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• "I still enjoy your book, especially the article on page 43 "Divided organizations in the Diaspora". I believe that you are absolutely correct in your description. It also applies to us American Copts. It seems that we have a dominant gene which is expressed heavily in every Middle Easterner.  It is either this offensive genetic material which transmits anti-unity or an epidemic among us. The good news for the Copts is that it is not found only in our community." Dr. Ehab El-Khouly, Response Genetics Inc, Los Angeles, CA - December 30, 2007

• "How Many Times... I Told you tells the stories of a young ambitious Lebanese American and his ongoing struggle to regain the old good days of Lebanon. While reading it you cannot but bow before this pure patriotism. Walid Maalouf is indeed a modern day Phoenician sailor in the Americas." Mazen H. Abboud, Journalist, Beirut, Lebanon - December 6, 2007

• "What you are doing is a great hope for Lebanon, I am reading your book, I saw through the words the great spirit of you, I smell Lebanon fragrance and I felt the breeze of Kadisha valley in your writing." Youssef Abdelsamad, Dean of the New Pen League, New York - November 29, 2007

• "I have read your book it was excellent, I wish to every Lebanese to read it." Dr. Albert Helou, Virginia Commonwealth University - August 18, 2007

• "May your energy and endeavors rub off on every man, woman and child you meet and may your positive outlook help our Motherland emancipate itself from the nightmare that has befallen upon its Cedars' roots! Lebanon needs many, many Walid Maaloufs to heal its wounds, shake off its burdens, evolve and move forward to a bright and, God willing, peaceful future that its people very much deserve and often enough have been deprived of. Keep up your benevolent work and God bless you." Jay Bassila, Montreal, Canada - June 1, 2007

• "Thank you for such a wonderful book, you touched my heart, you expressed my thoughts and my feelings, you made me cry all the way coming back to Toronto from Montreal, you brought all my feelings back to life, I was trying really hard to forget my very sad teenage years in my beloved hometown Daher El Migara but you made me realize that they stole my past. I will never let them steal my future and my children's future.  Yes ....the children of my Lebanon have to work together and unite to save Lebanon." Hanan Dagher, Toronto - Canada - May 9, 2007

• "A fascinating book that chronicles significant landmarks in the successful journey of a Lebanese emigrant to America, from a foreign student who had escaped the miseries that had befallen his homeland to an able diplomat representing his adopted country and a warrior for freedom and democracy. An "Only in America" real-life story and a must-read for every American of Lebanese descent. " Adib Farha, Wichita, Kansas - April 28, 2007

• “Again and again, your book is a shining light at the end of our long black tunnel. We are proud to be Lebanese and to have Walid Maalouf as one of our best representatives. ” Dal Hitti, President, Koudourat Association, Beirut – Lebanon – April 20, 2007