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Tag Archives: Dubai
My Thoughts And Prayers
It’s early morning here in Montreal. The sun hasn’t come out yet. I didn’t sleep well last night and my head hurts a bit. I switch on my netbook. The internet is full of stories of the shooting at the … Continue reading
Who Said Cities Don’t Smell
I was born and raised in a small village east of the Bekaa valley in Lebanon. A friendly place where everyone was somehow related to everyone else. There were three schools in the village and the school I went to … Continue reading
Why Do We Write?
Decades earlier when I was working and living in Dubai, with a small group of friends we formed what was then the first writers’ circle. We were all expatriate women, coming from different cultural backgrounds with one thing in common, … Continue reading
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Tagged art, author, book, books, characters, creative writing, diary, digital, dreams, Dubai, emotion, English, Ernest Hemingway, feelings, fiction, friends, happy, home, ideas, language, lessons, library, life, literature, love, memories, novel, people, poetry, society, story, thoughts, UK, war, words, work, write, writer, writing
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He Gave Me Christmas!
It’s that time of year when our hearts are filled with expectations and anxiety. We have lived to see yet another year pass by and no matter what we have been through we are once again filled with hope to … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, book, books, children, chocolate, Christmas, Christmas Eve, dinner, dress, Dubai, faith, family, goodies, Hanukkah, happy holidays, heart, husband, joy, kids, life, local, memory, new year, peace, remember, Santa, Santa Claus, shop, smile, story, supermarket, sweets
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Can’t You Read English?
In October 1988 Naguib Mahfouz, an Egyptian writer, won the Nobel Prize for literature. When I first heard the news I was ecstatic. “Finally. I told my husband. Now the rest of the world will know him and read his … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, aim, Arab world, book, books, British, civil war, curriculum, Dubai, e-book, English, high school, home, horror, husband, Ivan Turgenev, journalist, literature, married, Mathematics, memories, Middle East, Naguib Mahfouz, name, news, newspaper, October, people, recognition, road, school, spelling, teacher, translation, tv, twin towers, ugly, welcome, world
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And I Thought
Hemingway wrote: “You are an expatriate. One of the worst type. Haven’t you heard that? Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.” “You are an expatriate. You lost touch with … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, Arab world, Armenian, belong, book, books, Canada, categorize, citizen, country, culture, curfew, daughter, Dubai, e-book, Ernest Hemingway, expat, global, globalization, husband, job, land, Lebanon, life, living, Mahmoud Darwish, Middle East, occupied, parents, passport, sanctions, standards, struggle, The Lost I, work, write, writer, writing
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Memory Has You
Hemingway once said that “war makes great material for writing.” True. Think of all these great books: A Farewell To Arms, The Sun Also Rises, Platoon, War and Peace, to name only a few. The first time I read some … Continue reading
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Tagged A Farewell To Arms, Amazon, Amazon UK, artists, arts, book, books, civil war, class, cosmopolitan, course, creative writing, dream, Dubai, Ernest Hemingway, experience, For Whom The Bell Tolls, form, girl, high school, history, husband, John Irving, Lebanon, Leo Tolstoy, life, living, memory, Middle East, novel, Platoon, short story, style, University, War and Peace, writer, writing, writing courses, writing workshop
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The Magic Of The Giller
In 2006, on September 9, we moved into our house in Montreal, after waiting a whole month for our furniture to be delivered. Our personal belongings had been shipped from Dubai and the boxes filled every room of the house. … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, BBC, Beirut, book, books, Canada, cold, cure, Dubai, e-book, editor, gala, hotel, house, immigration, internet, job, Lebanon, library, life, literature, magic, Margaret Atwood, Maya Angelou, Montreal, news, newspaper, night, novel, November, October, people, publishers, story, talk, Toronto, touch, writer
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Rendezvous With Robert Fisk
In December 10 2005, Robert Fisk was in Dubai for the signing of his book ‘The Great War For Civilization’ in the Jashanmal bookstore in Emirates Mall, the mall with the indoor ski slopes. I didn’t want to miss him … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, Anjar, Armenian, audience, Beirut, bestseller, book, books, bookstore, children, civil war, Civilization, December, Dubai, e-book, home, honesty, husband, independent, indoor, journalist, kids, McGill, Middle East, news, notebook, opinion, Paulo Coelho, publisher, read, reader, reading, Robert Fisk, story, style, University, war, young
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