Acknowledgments
I wish to extend my warmest gratitude to all those who have supported me in this effort over the years. Begun in 2013, this project would not have acquired its present shape without the generous help of Rawi Hage himself, who made his academic contacts in Lebanon and elsewhere available to me, and of Madeleine Thien, who agreed to grace this volume with her own contribution and encouraged me in my pursuits.
I am very grateful to Smaro Kamboureli for believing in this project and continuing to offer support at various stages. I am indebted to Christa Stevens and Kathleen Gyssels for their trust in this book, which has found a happy home at Brill. I also want to acknowledge the various reviewers, both in their official and unofficial capacity, who read and critiqued this book or its parts, and influenced its final form: among the ‘unofficials,’ especially Alex Ramon.
Naturally, I want to thank all of the contributors to this volume for their extraordinary patience and their undying faith in this book. Without you, there wouldn’t have been a book.
Last, and certainly not least, I want to thank my wife Paulina Ambroży—dearest friend and kindest ‘reviewer’—for bearing with me and my host of perpetually unfinished projects, academic and otherwise. Merci.
Krzysztof Majer