Itamar Ben Canaan (Hebrew:איתמר בן כנען b. May 30, 1976 in the city of Eilat, Israel) is the pen name of Ithamar Handelman Smith, a Jewish writer, columnist, filmmaker, playwright and sometimes DJ based in Paris. He is renowned for several controversial works, both in fiction and non-fiction. His latest BBC documentary is titled Shalom Belfast .
He is named after Hebrew language reviver Itamar Ben-Avi.
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Famous quotes containing the word ben:
“For of fortunes sharp adversitee
The worst kynde of infortune is this,
A man to han ben in prosperitee,
And it remembren, whan it passed is.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340–1400)