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I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
About
Condemned
Condition
Deprived
Enjoy
Exile
Immigrants
Land
Legal
Men
Palestinians
Rights
Same
Who
Women
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