Editing Amin Maalouf (section)

==Background==
Maalouf was born in [[Beirut]], Lebanon, and grew up in the [[Badaro]] cosmopolitan neighbourhood,<ref>Battah, Habib. 11 November 2012. "[http://www.beirutreport.com/2012/11/amin-maalouf-writers-bedroom.html Amin Maalouf: a writer’s bedroom]." ''Beirut Report''.</ref> the second of four children. His mother, of Turkish ancestry, was from Egypt, and his father was a [[Lebanese Melkite Christians|Melkite Catholic]]<ref name="Esposito">{{citation|last=Esposito|first=Claudia|title=The Narrative Mediterranean: Beyond France and the Maghreb|page=36|year=2013|chapter=Of Chronological Others and Alternative Histories: Amin Maalouf and Fawzi Mellah|publisher=[[Lexington Books]]|isbn=978-0739168226|quote=born into a culturally composite family - his mother was Egyptian of Turkish origin, his father a Greek Catholic in 1949 in Lebanon...}}</ref> from the village of Machrah.<ref>{{cite news|author=Jean-Claude Raspiengeas|url=https://www.la-croix.com/Culture/Amin-Maalouf-Levantin-desoriente-2019-04-20-1201016941|title=Amin Maalouf, un Levantin désorienté|language=fr|work=[[La Croix (newspaper)|La Croix]]|date=20 April 2019}}</ref>

He is the uncle of trumpeter [[Ibrahim Maalouf]].<ref>{{cite news|author1=Olivier Nuc|author2=Valérie Sasportas|date=3 March 2017|title=Qui est Ibrahim Maalouf trompettiste dans la tourmente?|newspaper=Le Figaro|url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/musique/2017/03/03/03006-20170303ARTFIG00228-qui-est-ibrahim-maalouf-trompettiste-dans-la-tourmente.php}}</ref>

===Career===

Maalouf worked as the director of ''[[An-Nahar]]'', a Beirut-based daily newspaper, until the start of the [[Lebanese civil war]] in 1975, when he moved to Paris, which became his permanent home. Maalouf's first book, ''[[The Crusades Through Arab Eyes]]'' (1983), examines the period based on contemporaneous Arabic sources.<ref name="DailyStar" />

Along with his nonfiction work, he has written four texts for musical compositions and numerous novels.

His book ''Un fauteuil sur la Seine'' briefly recounts the lives of those who preceded him in [[List of members of the Académie française#Seat 29|seat #29]] as a member of the [[Académie française]].<ref>Un fauteuil sur la Seine : Quatre siècles d'histoire de France, Grasset, 2016 ({{ISBN|978-2-246-86167-6}})</ref><ref name=":0" />