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Tag Archives: Lebanon
Childhood Memories From Before The War
I grew up in a village east of the Bekaa valley in Lebanon, where the majority of the villagers were farmers. They made their living mainly from selling apples that they grew in their orchards. There were a few who … Continue reading
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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No Place To Call Home
“Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas put forth a historic U.N. membership bid for an independent state of Palestine on Friday. The formal application drew applause in the assembly when the Palestinian leader raised the document at the podium during his speech … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, Anton Chekhov, Arab world, brother, challenges, country, father, feeling, good, grandfather, grandparents, happy, hardship, history, home, hope, house, humanity, language, Lebanon, life, lost, membership, memory, Middle East, news, optimism, Palestinians, people, picture, refugees, remember, sad, student, truth, University, weather, wedding
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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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It’s Bad Enough
Have you ever woken up early one morning at dawn and quite unexpectedly noticed the twilight? Or some other day quite unexpectedly you saw a sunset, a starry sky, a scenery or the horizon, so beautiful, so exquisite that a … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, childhood, children, civil war, death, disease, economic crisis, famine, father, fear, foreclosure, hard times, high school, illness, internet, job, job search, Lebanon, life, memories, Middle East, Montreal, mother, news, night, parent, parents, responsibility, sky, stability, stars, sun, survival, teenager, twilight, unemployment, worry, youth
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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 William Saroyan
“Well for God’s sake, what’s that lousy Armenian son of a bitch doing here?” stated Ernest Hemingway. The more I tried to hush him, the worse it got. Finally Saroyan’s companion… began to come back at Ernest. I am not … Continue reading
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Tagged Academy Award, Amazon, Amazon UK, Anjar, Armenian, author, bestseller, book, books, change, drama, e-book, English, Ernest Hemingway, high school, humans, innovation, journalist, Lebanon, library, life, Mark twain, news, Nobel prize, notebook, novel, Paris, play, publisher, Pulitzer Prize, read, reader, short story, story, theme, William Saroyan, writer, writing, young
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There Is No Such Thing As Normal
“The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridges to cross and which to burn.” David Russell Unfortunately most of us don’t realize that we have crossed the wrong bridge until it is too late. At some point in … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, answer, Atlantic Ocean, Beirut, bridge, burn, Canada, city, country, cross, die, dream, Dubai, experiment, happiness, home, hope, human being, husband, job, Lebanon, library, life, memories, minute, Montreal, move, nature, normal, ocean, past, Persian, prisoner, proverb, question, Richard Bach, routine, sad, Sidney Sheldon
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How Much Is Too Much?
During a recent conversation with my mother over the phone I told her I would try and pay them a visit even if it’s only for one week, just to see them, since my father is bedridden and my mom … Continue reading
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Tagged Arab world, Beirut, Canada, children, city, civil war, Damascus, death, divine, Dubai, Egypt, family, father, fear, friends, heart, husband, intervention, James Clavell, Lebanon, Libya, life, live, luck, Middle East, Montreal, mother, news, Robert Fisk, safety, Syria, tanks, teenagers, television, unrest, victim, war, Winston Churchill, yemen
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