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Monthly Archives: February 2011
Not in the Middle East…
How many times can people flee their country for safety? 24 Feb 2011, as I watch the news in my Montreal home, and I see civilians from Libya crossing on foot, carrying whatever possible of their belongings in their hands, … Continue reading
Posted in Ramblings
Tagged airport, Amazon, army, Beirut, book, border, Canada, chichikir, civil war, civilians, cross, cross on foot, Damascus, Dubai, East, Egypt, farewell, flee, gunfire, Israel, Jordan, Jounieh, Lebanon, Libya, Middle East, militia, Montreal, mountains, Museum Crossing, safety, strife, Syria, The Lost I, war, West
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Home Away From Home
When I was a little girl in elementary school, I used to accompany my father to downtown Beirut on his business trips. After he’d finished his work, he would either take me to what seemed to me to be the … Continue reading
Posted in Ramblings
Tagged Beirut, book, bookstore, ceremony, chichikir, civil war, downtown, downtown Beirut, dreams, Dubai, Fahidi, fountain pen, gold, graduation, honor roll, King's Traders, Lebanon, librairie, Librairie Du Liban, Middle East, Parker, Parker Pens UK, pens, silver, village, war
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Which side of the Atlantic do I belong to?
Dorothea Brande in her Becoming A Writer writes; “It is not by weighing, balancing, trimming, expanding with conscious intention, that an excellent piece of art is born. It takes its shape and has its origin outside the region of conscious … Continue reading
Posted in Ramblings
Tagged Atlantic, Becoming a Writer, Beirut, belong, Canada, Canadian, childhood, citizen, conscious, Dorothea Brande, Dubai, Emirates, Emirati, immigrant, individual, Lebanese, Lebanon, literature, memories, money, publication, Ray Bradbury, socioeconomic, unconscious, Universe, writer, Zen in The Art of Writing
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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
Posted in Ramblings
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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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
Posted in Ramblings
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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