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The Most Uneducated, The Most Unimaginative, The Most Unthinking
Plato wrote: “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” Last week when I heard that a woman from Gatineau was fined because … Continue reading
Home Is A Notion
I don’t know how but it seems that lately all my stories take place at some clinic. The other day I was at the clinic yet again waiting for my turn when I started a conversation with the lady beside … Continue reading
Sweet And Sour
Do you remember your senior year in high school? When you were anxiously looking forward to whatever it was you had planned to do? To go to college, join the football team, travel to Europe, etc. In other words, follow … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, believe, body, book, books, civil war, college, country, day, dream, dreams, e-book, Europe, football, friends, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, generation, graduation, happy, heart, idea, lie, life, memories, months, news, nostalgia, reality, sad, school, schools, summer, sweet, team, travel, truth, victim, years
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Something Mysterious About The Night
W. Somerset Maugham wrote: “In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, basketball, best friend, body, books, camp, city, civil war, class, community, country, dark, darkness, Ellie Wiesel, friendly, friends, gunman, ice-cream, laugh, light, lights, long, love, moments, monster, movie, my, nation, night, people, politics, summer, talk, theatre, things, University, walk
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No Place To Call Home
“Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas put forth a historic U.N. membership bid for an independent state of Palestine on Friday. The formal application drew applause in the assembly when the Palestinian leader raised the document at the podium during his speech … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, Anton Chekhov, Arab world, brother, challenges, country, father, feeling, good, grandfather, grandparents, happy, hardship, history, home, hope, house, humanity, language, Lebanon, life, lost, membership, memory, Middle East, news, optimism, Palestinians, people, picture, refugees, remember, sad, student, truth, University, weather, wedding
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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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Imagine
Are you a dreamer? Do you dream about your future? Do you wonder about your past? If you have the chance to live your life again how would you like it to be different? Well I do. I am a … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, believe, book, books, chance, country, culture, dream, e-book, English, experience, free, freedom, French, future, government, history, imagine, John Steinbeck, lawyer, library, life, literature, Mathematics, Middle East, past, people, person, problem, read, reading, religion, story, style, University, wish, world, writer, writing
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The Truth Is
I was watching an actor being interviewed once. When asked why he left New York, he replied, “The moment everything around you starts to get on your nerves, you know it’s about time to move, to change your city.” Life … Continue reading
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Tagged actor, age, Amazon, Amazon UK, beautiful, boredom, child, city, country, daily, day, destiny, dream, dreams, Ernest Hemingway, escape, faith, fate, fight, furniture, future, happy, interview, James Joyce, life, man, Mitch Albom, move, neighbor, neighbors, New York, newspaper, newspapers, people, routine, school, traffic, truth, worries
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There Is No Such Thing As Normal
“The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridges to cross and which to burn.” David Russell Unfortunately most of us don’t realize that we have crossed the wrong bridge until it is too late. At some point in … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, answer, Atlantic Ocean, Beirut, bridge, burn, Canada, city, country, cross, die, dream, Dubai, experiment, happiness, home, hope, human being, husband, job, Lebanon, library, life, memories, minute, Montreal, move, nature, normal, ocean, past, Persian, prisoner, proverb, question, Richard Bach, routine, sad, Sidney Sheldon
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