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	<description>A something literary, lil newsy, casually social, watchful eye on change and stagnation in the Middle East, from Beirut and abroad.</description>
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		<title>Bob&#8217;s Tips for Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rima</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a few nights ago, I was commiserating with my friend about the burden of a writer’s life &#8211; writing! How difficult it is to believe in yourself; to set goals and a writing schedule; to say something; to start. All in all, to become a committed writer requires constant self-inflicted psychological manipulations and pep-talks. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beirut of the Middle East</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the French mandate in Lebanon, Beirut was lovingly described as “The Paris of the Middle East”. This made sense since for in their short time here, the French splashed Lebanon with their architecture, language, education system, and an overall feeling of superiority and class. Since, in Lebanon there have been wars and occupation, destruction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paris of Europe</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rima</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Enjoy these pics from Paris while I prepare a funny and curious look at the Paris of Europe in comparison to the &#8220;Paris of the Middle East.&#8221;
 
 


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		<title>TECHNOLOGY!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rima</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Gracious Readers,
Thank you so much for taking the time to read CER. If you&#8217;re interested in getting updates each time the blog is updated, please take 30 seconds to sign up for automatic notices. In the sidebar here to your right, under &#8220;Subscribe,&#8221; click on &#8220;e-mail.&#8221;
Thank you and enjoy the latest post below, &#8220;This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;This Is the Year&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rima</dc:creator>
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It is a new year and predictions of an impending spring or summer war with Israel are swirling, as is customary at the dawn of a bright new year for us veterans of war, pessimists, newbies, and conspiracy theorists here in Lebanon. The predictions are not restricted to hearsay, but also formal discussion.  Each peaceful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Brothers</title>
		<link>http://www.crosseyedrevolutions.com/2010/01/my-brothers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rima</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I do not believe that a taxi driver has made an appearance in this blog. Alas, just as in any lane of traffic, he has forced himself into this one.
It was Christmas Eve, and I was on my way to the village. Luckily it wasn’t raining in the way that flips your umbrella into a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;ve Got Your Red, I&#8217;ve Got Mine</title>
		<link>http://www.crosseyedrevolutions.com/2009/12/youve-got-your-red-ive-got-mine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rima</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following poem is by Tina Srouji, otherwise known as Tuna Fish. If you&#8217;ve seen her share a poem, you know that she fuses her soul into the mic. She brings her verses in handwriting. And when she&#8217;s done and her long arms have settled to her sides, you feel that she has truly communicated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-revolutionary Love in Revolutionary Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rima</dc:creator>
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This is a small tribute to a one-year anniversary. The one-year anniversary of my first-ever engagement to be married. Scratch that. This is not a tribute to that. Yes, it’s true that one year ago, I and a ______ (I cannot decide how to describe him) man decided in a casual conversation that we should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Arab Woman Writer</title>
		<link>http://www.crosseyedrevolutions.com/2009/12/the-arab-woman-writer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rima</dc:creator>
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My good friend, colleague, and Beiruti writer Lina Mounzer was recently invited to Belgium to give a talk, which was entitled “The Voyeur in the Mirror: Negotiating Arab Self-Representation in Western Language Literature.&#8221; Upon arriving to the auditorium where she was to give her talk, she found that it was moved to one that would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A Day of Publick Thanksgiving and Prayer&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rima</dc:creator>
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Thanksgiving has always been turkey, ham, food in general.  It&#8217;s always at my parents&#8217; house. Uncle Dan and Aunt Lily driving up the street, arriving from Chicago, in their black Cadillac. Aunt Lily carrying a tray of delicate powdered cookies, each with a circle of red or orange jelly in its center.  Football droning on [...]]]></description>
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