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Maalouf deliberately talks paints the Franj (i.e. Franks, what Arabs called crusaders) as hordes of barbarous and ignoble invaders who are heroically repulsed
Maalouf deliberately talks paints the Franj (i.e. Franks, what Arabs called crusaders) as hordes of barbarous and ignoble invaders who are heroically repulsed