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What Was I Thinking
James Joyce once said; “History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” Years ago in Dubai, when my kids were still in elementary school, my son asked me one day as I picked him up after class, … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, Arabic, Armenian, background, book, books, crisis, culture, e-book, education, elementary school, everything, Ezra Pound, friend, friends, Guy de Maupassant, human, Identity, James Joyce, kid, kids, knowledge, language, languages, Lebanon, parent, parents, people, religion, school, single, son, The Lost I, tradition, Universe, weird, wisdom, world
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Something Missing
I recently finished reading a biography of one of my favorite authors. Just days before I had read the same writer’s autobiography. That’s what I usually do. I read the memoirs, the life story written by the author, and then … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, Anne Michaels, author, autobiography, biographer, biography, book, books, celebrity, Charlotte Bronte, civil war, dream, dreams, e-book, experience, F. Scot Fitzgerald, feeling, friend, friends, J.D. Salinger, life, longing, Margaret Atwood, memoir, memories, memory, missing, news, pain, past, person, reader, reading, sense, star, wish, writer, writing
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The Internet Is
Are you in any way like me? Do you always think that there is more you could do but you don’t know exactly what or how? So you join all the groups you can find on the internet, on facebook … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, article, author, blog, blogs, book, books, business, career, chat, creation, creative writing, distraction, e-book, education, Facebook, friend, group, happiness, imagination, internet, library, LinkedIn, marketing, networking, people, promotion, Ray Bradbury, relationship, school, Stephen R Covey, story, success, talent, technique, term, win, writer
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L’Esprit D’Escalier
Have you ever been misunderstood in your life more than once? Well I have, more often than I have been understood, especially as a young adult. I am not and never have been an introvert. On the contrary, I was … Continue reading
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Tagged activity, adult, commitment, community, courage, crush, dream, dreams, experience, feeling, feelings, fire, friend, friends, grateful, heart, honesty, hope, knowledge, learn, life, lost, Maya Angelou, opinion, opportunity, Paulo Coelho, people, regret, relationship, self, single, society, spirit, town, truth, volunteer, wish, young, young adult
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The Miracle of Miracles
Do you believe in miracles and fairy tales? A miracle according to Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary is a wonder, an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs: an extremely outstanding or unusual event, thing, accomplishment. A fairy is … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, Albert Einstein, animal, child, childhood, children, death, disease, excitement, fairies, fairy, food, friend, friends, hunger, joy, life, love, medicine, miracles, morning, mother, night, old, people, power, prince, princess, romance, science, sick, story, sunset, supernatural, tales, terrorist, tyrants, Webster's, world
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Prejudice!
Albert Einstein wrote: “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.” According to The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary: A) Prejudice is an opinion, like or dislike, formed before one has adequate knowledge. B) Opinion is judgment not … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, Amazon, Amazon UK, attitude, basketball, bias, book, books, cast, city, collection, community, concise oxford dictionary, culture, dream, family, father, fear, friend, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, game, heart, high school, Judge, judgment, Leo Tolstoy, library, life, mistake, news, people, prey, right, school, teenager, University, Webster's, wrong
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Just Walk Beside Me and Be My Friend
Have you ever stopped for a moment what you are doing and looked around you and realized that perhaps you have it all? We as human beings are so ambitious, so greedy for wealth, emotion, power, that most of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Amazon, Amazon UK, Canada, chichikir, children, civil war, debate, discount, Dubai, ebook, experience, Facebook, family, friend, friendship, generation, gunmen, journalist, kindle, literature, Middle East, parents, promotion, reader, reading, reporter, sale, sales, social network, social networks, story, terrorists, The Lost I, Twitter, uprising, women, writer, writing
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Will things ever change for women in the Middle East?
Today is International Women’s Day. There are lots of things I would like to say on this day but I can’t sum it all up in one post, so instead I’ll just quote a scene from my book The Lost … Continue reading
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Tagged baby, Beirut, bombing, book, ceasefire, chichikir, civil war, civilians, friend, innocent, international women's day, Lebanon, Middle East, pregnant, The Lost I, war, woman, women, women's day
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Pity The Civilians
In my book The Lost I, in the last chapter, Nayla, the key character, is sad to flee her country. “She had left her friends there in the West; her closest friend, with whom she had shared the worst moments … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, basement, Beirut, bombing, book, Cairo, Canada, characters, chichikir, ChK, civil war, civilians, CTV, Debra Arbec, disappointment, discontent, disturbance, Egypt, flee, friend, Hayat, hospital, innocent, Lebanon, Maha, Middle East, Montreal, Nayla, pity, plot, prayers, Robert Fisk, shelling, story, suffer, The Lost I, thoughts, war, writer
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