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Everything Became So Quiet
When I was younger, I used to love to stay awake at night till well after midnight. I loved to read and I also loved to watch the night from my window. I used to watch how the lights in … Continue reading
Fear Is Felt By All Writers
John Cheever called the life of a serious writer “quite a dangerous career.” Years ago, when I first decided to take up writing seriously I felt hesitant and scared. I thought that being scared was my shameful weakness. A weakness … Continue reading
Keeping Promises
Man is by nature a social animal. In fact society is based on the links and the relationships between people. At a very young age we learn to adapt to our surroundings to get along with the people around us. … Continue reading
In Search Of Completeness
Things are not looking good again in Lebanon, not with the revolt in neighboring Syria and the political turmoil that is sweeping the Arab world in the name of uprising. For almost a year now I have stopped reading newspaper … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, articles, blogging, books, Canada, childhood, citizen, CTV, doubt, emotion, existence, Facebook, family, fear, feelings, fiction, friends, happy, home, interview, job, joy, life, memories, Middle East, news, pain, peace, politics, publishing, religion, tv, video, work, worry, writer, writing, youth
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2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 57,000 times in 2011. If it were a … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, blog, book, Canada, daughter, dream, England, feelings, fiction, home, hope, house, internet, joy, kids, library, life, love, magic, memory, new year, news, novel, opera, Paris, peace, people, poetry, Prix Goncourt, reading, religion, rendezvous, Robert Fisk, Simone De Beauvoir, Sydney, United States, William Saroyan, writer, writing
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Dear Readers
It has been exactly a year since I started my blog. I would like to thank you all for following, reading and commenting on my posts. Thanks to your support I was able to swirl and swing words to convey … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, blog, book, books, Christmas, civil war, death, e-book, faith, fear, fiction, food, God, happy, holidays, hope, internet, kids, library, life, love, memories, Middle East, nature, new year, news, novel, people, politics, reading, religion, society, soul, thoughts, Universe, war, words, writer, writing
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The Lights Are On
Years ago when I was a student in high school I was staying in Beirut at my aunt’s place, when the government was toppled and a military government took over. It had been almost a year since the civil war … Continue reading
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Tagged anger, aunt, Canada, Christmas, civil war, Elie Wiesel, experience, faith, family, fear, genocide, God, government, holocaust, horror, house, human, lights, Middle East, military, news, night, people, politics, protest, race, reason, red, Red Cross, religion, religious, signs, story, suffering, torture, traffic, traffic light, twilight, writing
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State of Unemployment
“It’s terrible to have one’s future obstructed, and to have always to resort to makeshift solutions.” Simone De Beauvoir I watch with great sadness the protest against unemployment on Wall Street, and the long lineup in front of employment offices … Continue reading
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Tagged belief, Canada, cars, cities, color, dark, day, desire, drive, employment, fear, feeling, future, Jean Paul Sartre, job, jobs, leaves, life, live, morning, protest, protests, reality, religion, sad, Simone De Beauvoir, society, space, sun, sweet, time, tree, truth, unemployment, unhappy, United States, Wall Street, work, world
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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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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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