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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Rendezvous with Oprah
1986 is a year of great significance to me. It was the year when I started a new life in a new city Dubai, away from my war torn country Lebanon. It was the year when it became possible for … Continue reading
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Tagged 1986, act, Arabian Gulf, art, article, arts, Australia, book, books, Canada, career, children, dowry, drama, dream, dreams, Dubai, family, father, girls, high school, house, India, lecture, Mathematics, Middle East, mother, novel, Oprah, OWN, Sharjah, sing, story, teacher, teaching, teenagers, USA, writing workshop
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Nevermore
It all started in grade 12 when I gave my book to a girl in my neighborhood. Prior to that, when I was a little girl growing up in a small village east of the Bekaa valley in Lebanon, there … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Beirut, Bekaa Valley, birds, books, bookstore, borrow, Calculus, copybook, Dubai, Edgar Allan Poe, English, Ernest Hemingway, friends, girl, grade 12, graduation, high school, humiliation, Lebanon, Magrudys, Mathematics, Middle East, mom, mother, neighbor, notebook, notes, novel, old, problems, Raven, reader, reading, sorry, student, University, village, writing
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Don’t Cheat With It
Did you watch Oprah’s interview with James Frey yesterday? Honestly, I don’t see the point of this interview and with two parts, the second part to be continued today. Maybe it’s just me. Two whole hours of James Frey when … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, authenticity, author, beat generation, book, book club, books, cheating, children, e-book, education, Ernest Hemingway, family, form, generation, grammar, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, James Frey, library, lie, life, literature, lost, love, magazine, memoir, newspaper, Oprah, parents, professional, publishers, radio, reading, story, student, televion, writing
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“What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?”
When I was a little girl, I wanted to become a teacher so badly. Every day after school I used to come home, wear my mom’s high heel shoes, arrange my dolls on my bed and pretend I was their … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, autumn, blue, books, children, death, Dubai, e-book, education, family, green, Henry James, hero, life, literature, love, Middle East, mother, novel, old, opportunities, orange, pain, parents, purple, quotes, reading, season, signs, sorrow, story, student, teacher, teenagers, Toni Morisson, world, writing, yellow
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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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It Was Just The Beginning
Mother’s day, May 8th 2011, Montreal. I am having coffee with my daughter. It is a beautiful day outside, sunny and warm. At last after what seemed like an endless cold and wet winter, we are able to go out … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, AUB, Beirut, books, Canada, children, country, e-book, East, education, Ernest Hemingway, family, father, graduation, hero, Jean Paul Sartre, killed, Lebanon, life, literature, Middle East, Montreal, mother, mother's day, novel, opportunities, parents, quotes, reader, reading, signs, sniper, story, teenagers, University, West, world, writing
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Am I Missing Something?
I was born and raised in Lebanon and lived much of my life in Dubai. In 2006, when we moved to Canada, I vowed that I was not going to listen or watch news about the Middle East because it … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Amazon, Amazon UK, books, Canada, children, Dubai, e-book, education, Egypt, English, experience, family, father, French, journalist, language, Lebanon, Libya, life, literature, Middle East, Montreal, mother, Norman Mailer, opportunities, parents, Quebec, quotes, reader, reading, school, school boards, signs, story, teenagers, world, 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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