He has studied and taught law in France and was dean of the law and economics faculty at the University of Dakar, Senegal.

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His family moved to Lebanon when he was a toddler, and he later studied engineering at Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines de Paris in France, where he is a citizen.

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He went to Oxford to read French and became a teacher, first in France and then on the Greek island of Spetse, where he studied the ancient myths and grew to love what he always called agria Ellada, the wild Greece.

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