Marilyn Hacker translated a poet born in this country in books like Here There Once Was a Country. An invasion of this country prompted the suicide of the author of “The Threshing Floors of Hunger,” disrupted the Afro-Asian Writers’ journal Lotus, and is the backdrop of a long prose poem whose speaker frequently yearns for the “aroma of coffee.” An author born in this (15[1])country (-5[1])wrote a novel in which the original copy of the Rubaiyat (15[1])is lost in the sinking of the Titanic and Omar Khayyam escapes execution in (*) Samarkand. In a book by an author born in this country, a man instructs “Love one another, but make not a bond of love: (10[2])/ Let it rather be a moving sea” in response to Almitra the Seeress’s (10[1])questions (10[1])as he (10[1])prepares (10[1])to board a ship to leave (10[2])Orphalese. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this birth country (10[1])of Amin Maalouf and an author who wrote about Almustafa in The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran. ■END■