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MADRID (AP) — Javier Marías, Spain’s most prestigious novelist of the past half century, has died, his publisher said Sunday. He was 70. Spanish news agency EFE reported that Marías passed away in a hospital after not recovering from a lung infection.
Spanish writer Javier Marias, whose work has been translated into more than 40 languages in nearly 60 countries, died Sunday in Madrid at the age of 70 after suffering from pneumonia, his publisher said.
The New Arab and others. This is how one story goes. It was the early 20th century, maybe 1915, amid Lebanon’s vicious famine. Ottoman authorities were enforcing safar barlik, mandatory conscription of Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian and Kurdish men to fight for them during the Great War. They say these were some of the worst years for Bilad el-Sham, that Beirut and its surrounding mountains were like shriveled fruit, wrinkled and helpless. Locusts had destroyed everything—the olive trees, the fruits, the vegetables, the maize. People were starving, dying on the streets from deadly diseas...