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I'm kicking myself that I won't be here for this.br /---------------------------------------br /Brooklyn Beats to Beirut Streetsbr /Poet and Educator Mark Gonzales (an Alaskan-born Mexican-American) and hip-hop artists Nizar Wattad amp; Omar Chakaki (hailing from Palestine and Syria, respectively), offer a ...
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From Hamid Dabashi's a href="http://www.socialtextjournal.org/periscope/2009/11/social-networking-and-the-making-of-a-civil-rights-movement.php"span style="font-style: italic;"Social Networking and the Making of a Civil Rights Movement/span/a, Nov. 2009, on social networking as the new print media in the formation of a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagined_communities"Imagined Communities/a, the relevance of new forms of communication, ...
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div style="text-align: center;"a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/973/fathi2.png"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 199px; height: 145px;" src="http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/973/fathi2.png" alt="" border="0" //aa href="http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/973/cartoon.htm"span style="font-size:78%;"(Al-Ahram)/span/abr /br //divBack in the day I had the mixed pleasure of attending ...
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For all of you who get bored reading the same old regular Arabic news, tired of this old wazir visited this balad (yawn), I give you...br /h1 style="font-family:arial;"span style="font-size:130%;"a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/arabic/worldnews/2009/11/091114_dh_body_kebab_tc2.shtml"روسيا: مشردون "يقتلون رجلا/a/span/h1h1 style="font-family:arial;"span style="font-size:130%;"a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/arabic/worldnews/2009/11/091114_dh_body_kebab_tc2.shtml" ويبيعون" جثته لمطعم كباب/a/span/h1span ...
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I have recently fallen in love with Pakistani trucks. How can one not? They are garish and magical expressions, a visual din of animals, plants, mosques, celebrities, Greek heros, color, light, and sound. This happened recently on a trip to ...
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a href="http://www.patrickseale.com/"Patrick Seale/a's latest op-ed in the NYTimes, "a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/opinion/05iht-edseale.html?ref=global"The Rise and Rise of Turkey/a," provides a great overall look at how Turkey has emerged as a powerful regional actor since the Iraq War and the election of Abdullah Gul ...
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I loved this blogpost from Marjorie, an expat living here in Doha. By the looks of the comments section, some people didn't quite get it. You can read her full blog a href="http://qatar.livejournal.com/"here/a.br /br /blockquote style="color: rgb(102, 204, 204);"I want ...
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span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"/spanspan style="letter-spacing: 0px;"a href="http://blogs.thenational.ae/beep_beep/2009/10/gloomy-arab-knowledge-report-has-a-moment-of-geek-happiness.html"Gloomy Arab Knowledge Report Has a Moment of Geek Happiness/abr /The National (Abu Dhabi) 10.31.09br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"/span/spanblockquote style="color: rgb(102, 204, 204);"span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Arabic is the fastest-growing language on the internet./span By ...
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a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_PT4f7Mwfcv8/SI4g0huJCeI/AAAAAAAAAFw/_sQ5ZSOGRRQ/s320/mideastflyer01.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 245px; height: 320px;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_PT4f7Mwfcv8/SI4g0huJCeI/AAAAAAAAAFw/_sQ5ZSOGRRQ/s320/mideastflyer01.jpg" alt="" border="0" //aA new year, another exceptional a href="http://www.nolamideastfilmfest.blogspot.com/"Mideast Film Festival/a from Zeitgeist. The documentary on E.M. Pei, the ...
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a href="http://www.openanthropology.org/courses.html"This is amazing/a. I applaud any professor/university that opens their courses up to anyone who wants to learn independently.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2027000864102809215-4748937922713992374?l=ilmalinsaan.blogspot.com' alt='' //div...
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a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3530/3861033041_7b0d10293e.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 257px; height: 257px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3530/3861033041_7b0d10293e.jpg" alt="" border="0" //aI attended the opening ceremonies of the inaugural Doha Tribeca Film Festival last night at the Islamic ...
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span style="font-size:100%;"Yesterday afternoon my friends and I dressed as Qataris* and went to the Souq Waqif, aka the "old" souk, which is really a new souk that the king had built when he became wistful for the souks of his ...
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Michael Slackman in yesterday's NYTimes highlighted the greater reach that new media in Egypt has offered dissenting voices in debates on Islam. Using the example of Gamel Al-Banna (brother of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan Al-Banna) and his recent positive statements ...
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a href="http://shar.es/J6FF"שטח סגור | Closed Zone | /aa href="http://shar.es/J6FF"منطقة مغلقة/abr /object width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yIwASYuDGYMamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;color1=0x006699amp;color2=0x54abd6"/paramparam name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/paramparam name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/paramembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yIwASYuDGYMamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;color1=0x006699amp;color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/objectbr /Posted using a href="http://sharethis.com/"ShareThis/abr /br /This short film on life in Gaza was created by ...
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a href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/06/23/arts/muslim-190.jpg"img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 147px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 139px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/06/23/arts/muslim-190.jpg" //aI'm happy to see that New Muslim Cool got a a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/arts/television/23view.html?scp=1amp;sq=new%20muslim%20coolamp;st=cse"good review/a from the New York Times. I still haven't had ...
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span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; white-space: pre; "divobject width="560" height="340"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/leMWi2asGPwamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;"/paramparam name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/paramparam name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/paramembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/leMWi2asGPwamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"/embed/objectbr //div/spandivFrom the Facebook Invite I received:/divdivbr //divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande'; font-size: 11px; "“While the film transcends ...
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On my last night in New Orleans I was sitting in the Columns Hotel with some friends, listening to them go over the various things that had happened to them during the day. The context and content of the conversation ...
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span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; white-space: pre; "object width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6Kp7IOg_X8oamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;"/paramparam name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/paramparam name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/paramembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6Kp7IOg_X8oamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/object/spanbr //span/spandivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: ...
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Update to the Universe:divbr //divdivNot only did I pass the oral assessment, but I managed to do so with grace and a nice high score! Ah, dusty spice-scented alleyways of far-flung haunts that beckon, I await thee (hm, more like ...
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Hello all out there in the Internet tubes. Sorry for being AWOL, it's been a long month(s?) and much has happened. div/divulliFirst, I'm moving to sunny Doha! Imagine if the following said Qatar:/li/uldivimg style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: ...
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I've recently had the pleasure of reading emA Mosque Among The Stars, /emthe edited collection of "Islamic" science fiction that I posted about before. It's certainly made for good reading, and some of the stories have stayed with me for ...
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div align="center"a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_bO5-E9VlG8g/SbXEvIPpNZI/AAAAAAAAAPc/Q-pg1FQuY1I/s320/n54430684633_9642.jpg"img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_bO5-E9VlG8g/SbXEvIPpNZI/AAAAAAAAAPc/Q-pg1FQuY1I/s320/n54430684633_9642.jpg" border="0" //a March 26-April 5, 2009br /a href="http://patoisfilmfest.org/?page_id=61"List of Films/a/divbr /Every year I say that I'm going to attend this filmfest, ...
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I just finished a href="http://www.amazon.com/Girl-Tangerine-Scarf-Novel/dp/0786715197"The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf/a, by Mohja Kahf, (a gift from my thesis advisor that I emfinally/em got around to reading once I realized that a soul cannot live on hyper-academic political science texts alone, ...
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I don't why this delights me quite so much, but it does...br /br /a href="http://islamscifi.com/"Islam and Science Fiction/a chronicles the portrayal and activities of Muslims in science fiction from around the globe, and from comic books to cinema. "a href="http://www.zcbooks.ca/5073.html"A ...
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Deborah Bright and Linda Dittmarbr /8pm, March 5th, 2008br /Stone Auditorium, Rm 210 Woldenberg Art Centerbr /br /Since 2005, RISD Photo and HAVC Professor Deborah Bright and Linda Dittmar, writer and film scholar, have collaborated on a project titled "Destruction ...
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Gallup's a href="http://www.gallup.com/consulting/worldpoll/26410/Gallup-Center-Muslim-Studies.aspx"Center for Muslim Studies/a released a a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/116260/Muslim-Americans-Exemplify-Diversity-Potential.aspx"report/a today documenting some of the ethnic, gendered, and emotional parameters of America's Muslim population, with interesting results. For one thing, they're the most diverse religious group in the US by ...
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If you've seen the movie a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly_Man"Grizzly Man/a, then you might recognize some of the same themes about Paula Loyd. Not that she was a recovering addict and oddball who found acceptance in the fringes of the world, far from ...
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a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/nyregion/17swat.html?_r=1amp;hp"This very sad article/a on the Taliban reach into immigrant's lives appeared today on the heels of disappointing news that the Pakistani government has a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/world/asia/17shariah.html?_r=1amp;ref=world"made a deal/a with the Taliban in the Swat region to permit the imposition ...
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Of all places, Marie Claire magazine has just featured an article on the female e-jihadist, Malika El Aroud, called "a href="http://www.marieclaire.com/world-reports/news/international/malika-el-aroud-female-terrorist"Love in the Time of Terror/a." I don't know if this is a twisted Valentine's Day thing or what, but ...
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This a href="http://acon.baykal.be/"website/a is amazing. Take any Arabic root, apply a verb form, and you have your conjugations!div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2027000864102809215-4258182500903868266?l=ilmalinsaan.blogspot.com' alt='' //div...
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Some upcoming conferences...br /br /strong24th Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference/strongbr /University of Chicago, May 8-10, 2009br /br /We invite graduate students and faculty in the humanities and social sciences to submit papers for the 24th annual Middle East ...
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a href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/02/04/world/05nazi2-600.jpg"img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 188px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/02/04/world/05nazi2-600.jpg" border="0" //aThe NYTimes published a story this morning on the later life and death of Aribert Ferdinand Heim, one of the most ...
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I enjoyed this a href="http://www.metimes.com/Opinion/2009/02/04/hard_questions_for_the_new_president/6108/"op-ed /awritten by a Knox College senior, Daniel Hoffman, for today's a href="http://www.metimes.com/"Middle East Times/a. I happen to agree.br /br /span style="color:#66cccc;"As Barack Obama assumes the U.S. presidency he will be catapulted into familiar crises: negotiating ...
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span style="color:#66cccc;""Acrassicauda had been through hell as a rock band in wartime Baghdad. Its practice space was bombed. Its members were branded Satan worshipers and received death threats for making Western-style music. Then they suffered through two purgatorial years as ...
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a href="http://www.kennedy-center.org/images/programs/festivals/08-09/arabesque/Arabesque_Header.gif"img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 405px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 84px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.kennedy-center.org/images/programs/festivals/08-09/arabesque/Arabesque_Header.gif" border="0" //a The Friends of the Kennedy Center is recruiting volunteers to assist with the ARABESQUE: Arts of the Arab World Festival ...
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a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5oYx4PberHY/SYMaczStOXI/AAAAAAAAAHc/H_Kl-tI9fcg/s1600-h/image.jpg"img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297106668825164146" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5oYx4PberHY/SYMaczStOXI/AAAAAAAAAHc/H_Kl-tI9fcg/s400/image.jpg" border="0" //abr /diva href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5oYx4PberHY/SYMaLuSejFI/AAAAAAAAAHU/8oMOGlHSlU0/s1600-h/image.jpg"/abr /br /div/div/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2027000864102809215-5896229183916358525?l=ilmalinsaan.blogspot.com'//div...
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Lots in the news about the Taliban in Pakistan. This article on the horrific violence in the region of Swat was featured on yesterday's front page of the NYTimes: a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/world/asia/25swat.html?pagewanted=1amp;_r=1amp;em"In Pakistan, Radio Amplifies Terror of Taliban/a, which was again ...
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From Revolution, a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/magazine/25bloggers-t.html?pagewanted=1amp;_r=1amp;sq=facebookamp;st=cseamp;scp=2"Facebook Style: Can Social Networking Turn Disaffected Young Egyptians into a Force for Democratic Change/a, NYTimes, 1.25.09br /br /span style="color: rgb(102, 204, 204);""...When I spoke to Wael Nawara, a 47-year-old Ghad activist who is a co-founder of ...
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p"To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your ...