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Tag Archives: Europe
Behind The Scenes Part One
Do you think that personal preferences play a major role in choosing the recipients of great literary prizes? Do you think that foul play is involved to some extent in the voting process of the nominees and in deciding who … Continue reading
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Tagged art, article, articles, author, award, behind the scenes, book, books, creative writing, dreams, Europe, feelings, fiction, Germany, history, humor, ideas, Irving Wallace, Judge, literary prizes, literature, magazine, Nobel prize, novel, people, poetry, prize, publishing, reading, scandals, scene, science, story, Sweden, thoughts, words, write, writer, writing
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Sweet And Sour
Do you remember your senior year in high school? When you were anxiously looking forward to whatever it was you had planned to do? To go to college, join the football team, travel to Europe, etc. In other words, follow … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, believe, body, book, books, civil war, college, country, day, dream, dreams, e-book, Europe, football, friends, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, generation, graduation, happy, heart, idea, lie, life, memories, months, news, nostalgia, reality, sad, school, schools, summer, sweet, team, travel, truth, victim, years
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A Shattered Society
In the comfort and quiet of my sitting room in Montreal I watch the late night news about the riots in UK. I watch as hooded youths burn and thrash the streets of London. I watch images of shops and … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, Beirut, book, books, cars, children, city, civil war, country, death, e-book, Edward Said, Ernest Hemingway, Europe, fear, happiness, history, journalist, London, loneliness, magazine, Mahmoud Darwish, memory, Middle East, neighborhood, news, newspapers, politics, radio, religion, riots, society, The Lost I, time, tv, UK, women, youth
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Are We To Believe and Agree with Voltaire?
“An elderly woman and a baby were reported among those killed by coalition strikes in Libya’s western mountains.” Does this ring a bell? How many innocent women, children, and bystanders have been killed in Baghdad, or Afghanistan as a result … Continue reading
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Tagged Air strikes, Amazon, Baghdad, Bahrain, Beirut, bombing, Canada, chichikir, children, citizens, civil war, civilians, country, Dubai, Egypt, Eman Al-Obeidy, Europe, friendly fire, gunmen, human, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, madness, Middle East, Nato, politicians, protestor, safety, scene, Syria, The Lost I, Tunisia, uprising, Voltaire, women, yemen
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“I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way”
In the comfort and quiet of my sitting room I watch the uprisings in the Middle East on different news channels. Although the coverage is different from one channel to the next, the scene they show is that of the … Continue reading
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Tagged airport, Amazon, Bahrain, Beirut, bombing, book, border, Canada, chichikir, citizens, civil war, civilians, comfort, country, Dubai, Egypt, Europe, human, Jordan, kosovo, Lebanon, Libya, madness, Middle East, Montreal, optimism, politicians, protestor, recycling, safe, safety, scene, Syria, Tunisia, uprising, Voltaire, yemen
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