The only son of an established Levantine family from the Middle East, Uncle Malek came to England as a boy. In no other part of the world has he grown roots as strong. He has made English friends and English business partners; he married an Englishwoman; he speaks English every day and dreams in English at night; he supports an English football team with a passion bordering on obsession; he earns English money and donates to English charities; he is a member of several English gentlemen’s clubs and has been honored by the Queen; he has even taken English seaside holidays—and yet he is, and
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