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What’s In A Dream
Years ago when I was still in school I started drinking coffee for only one reason. To have someone read my cup. My mom and her group of friends and neighbors used to gather once a week on a certain … Continue reading
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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Is This My Destiny?
Ever since I settled in Montreal four years ago, bad luck has been following me like my own shadow. I have had one misfortune after another and just when I think that it is over, it is not. And I … Continue reading
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Tagged action, Amazon, book, books, buddhism, Canada, children, death, dream, Dubai, e-book, education, energy, experience, family, God, happiness, hinduism, James Clavell, Karma, library, life, literature, love, Maxim Gorky, Middle East, parents, promises, reader, reading, story, sunset, universal, weather, Wikipedia, women, words, writer, writing
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Have You Ever?
Have you ever experienced a moment when a simple yes or no would have made a difference in your life and yet for some unknown reason you have not been able to say it? And that single word has cost … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, book, books, children, death, dream, e-book, editor, experience, family, father, journalist, Lebanon, library, life, literature, love, Middle East, Mitch Albom, mother, Nicolas Sparks, opportunities, Oscar Wilde, parents, promises, quotes, reader, reading, reporter, signs, story, teacher, tomorrow, Twitter, women, words, writer, writing
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Call Me Crazy
If I say I love books, I love to read, I wouldn’t be doing myself justice. What I have for books is more than love, more than passion. It started way back in my childhood. Both my parents loved to … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, American University of Beirut, April, Beirut, book, childhood, children, civil war, crazy, Dubai, experience, family, father, grandparents, Gustave Flaubert, handbag, heart, Honore de Balzac, horror, journalist, Lebanon, library, literature, Middle East, Montreal, mother, parents, publishers, reader, reading, reporter, shoes, signs, story, suffering, torture, women, writer, writing
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Is It Too Much To Ask?
Chance had it that I was born and raised in Lebanon, hence I am a Lebanese citizen and as such carry a Lebanese passport, even though I am Armenian by origin. Both my parents came to Lebanon as refugees from … Continue reading
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Tagged Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Amazon, April, Armenian, children, civil war, Ernest Hemingway, experience, family, father, genocide, grandparents, holocaust, horror, Ivory Coast, Jews, journalist, Lebanon, library, literature, Middle East, Montreal, mother, Nazi, publishers, quotes, reader, reading, refugees, reporter, Robert Fisk, signs, story, suffering, torture, Turkey, women, writer, writing
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Confusion
Dalia stepped inside and stood for a moment to look around. She spotted Shadi not far away from her. Oh no, not tonight she thought. She wanted to turn back but it was too late. He was already walking towards … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, artist, book, Canada, chichikir, children, civil war, confusion, discount, dream, Dubai, e-book, editor, Exhibition, experience, family, journalist, Libya, literature, love, Middle East, Montreal, Museum, painting, promotion, publishers, quotes, reader, reading, reporter, signs, story, teacher, Twitter, uprising, women, writer, writing
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Honestly!
The Gazette Montreal, in one of the early April issues, had published the following quote by Angela Schwindt as its ‘Quote of the day’: While we try to teach our children all about life our children teach us what life … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, American, Angela Shwindt, April, book, Canada, chichikir, children, civil war, discount, dream, Dubai, e-book, editor, experience, family, journalist, libel, library, literature, Middle East, Montreal, promotion, publishers, quotes, Ray Bradbury, reader, reading, reporter, signs, story, teacher, Twitter, uprising, William Saroyan, women, writer, writing
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