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Tag Archives: Mahmoud Darwish
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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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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Reality or Simply a Mirage?
I read with interest the article, CNN ‘beirut 39′ about the future of writers from the Arab world, and how according to Bill Swanson of Bloomsbury Publishing, within the next 5 to 10 years there is going to be an … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Arab world, Arabic literature, Bill Swanson, Bloomsbury, book, bqtp, chichikir, CNN, disappointment, discontent, editor, Edward Nawotka, Edward Said, Egypt, fiction, Khalil Gibran, literature, Mahmoud Darwish, media, Middle East, Naguib Mahfouz, Nizar Kabbani, Nobel prize, publisher, Publishing Perspectives, Qatar, writer
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