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Arabic short stories translated at ArteEast

The Arabist Review - Wed, 2009-01-07 09:24 By Ursula Lindsey

ArteEast has just launched a cool new section called “Shahadat: a Short Forum,” with translations of short stories from Arabic to English. Each installment includes the Arabic original text and quite a bit of information about the author. I quite enjoyed reading, for the first time, the work of the Syrian writer Lukman Derky.

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Where Dreams of Reconciliation Go To Die

A Different Drummer - Wed, 2009-01-07 07:33 By Tom Gara
Jeffrey Goldberg, who writes about Israel and the Jewish world better than anyone, has been in blogging paralysis during the Gaza war. His explanation:
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From my inbox: آه منك يا خروف

Chocolate Mints In a Jar - Wed, 2009-01-07 04:08 By jessyz
في زاوية قصية ..  وبعيدا عن أعين الإعلام …  كان الجزار يحد سكينه ويجهز كلاليبه … منتظرا وصول أول خروف عربي  من الزريبة المجاورة للمسلخ في تلك اللحظة  كانت الخراف  في الزريبة تعيش  وتاكل  وتشرب  وكأنها قد جاءت الى تلك الزريبة بضمان الخلود . دخل الجزار فجأة الى وسط الزريبة فأدركت “  الخرفان   “  بحسها الفطري  أن الموت [...]
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Gaza Reading

Chocolate Mints In a Jar - Wed, 2009-01-07 01:17 By jessyz
Top 5 Lies About Israel’s Assault on Gaza Israel’s Dilemma and Why Israel is to Blame by Socialist Unity Who is Norman Finkelstein? Understanding Gaza The facts about Israel’s War on Gaza. “Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.” Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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On Fence Toughtest Stance in Mideast

Mona Eltahawy Blog - Tue, 2009-01-06 17:28 By Mona Eltahawy

By Mona Eltahawy
I was born in Egypt during one war with Israel, have vivid memories of another war with Israel and I was the first Egyptian to live and work in Israel for a Western news agency when I moved there from Cairo at the end of 1997 as a Reuters correspondent.

And here’s the best piece of advice on the Middle East you will get today.

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Links for January 6th

The Arabist - Tue, 2009-01-06 15:00 By arabist

Links from my del.icio.us account for January 6th:  read more »

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Get Your Bubble On

A Different Drummer - Tue, 2009-01-06 14:38 By Tom Gara
Dubai Mall, is there anything you don't have? Once you get past the 33,000 fish swimming in the world's largest acquarium, and Kinokuniya, the Japanese bookstore of unearthly greatness, can you ask for more?

I ask for Bubble Tea. And Dubai Mall delivers!
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Cairo, 2080 A.D.

Blog7 - Tue, 2009-01-06 13:08 By Feshfesh
Originally published in Alter Ego magazine, Jan 09

At the turn of the century, Cairenes marveled at the city Cairo was. As the biggest city in the Middle East, Cairo boasted more traffic, corruption and sexual harassment per dollar spent than anywhere else. It was the happening place if you were an average masochist who was into spending hours in traffic jams, had a relative in high government office or had unfulfilled “needs”. 
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Twitter in Real Life

Embee's Corner - Tue, 2009-01-06 10:43 By

H/T
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That’s how it feels..

Ibrahim Abdel Fattah Mohamed Personal bLOG - Tue, 2009-01-06 01:33 By bingorabbit
I came online to see the solutions of the mid-term exams of tomorrow’s subject “Introduction to Database”. I know it won’t affect tomorrow to see them or not, Dr.Hesham’s exams are unpredictable :), but I love them. I feel like I’m just going to write a letter for my professor tomorrow, not solving an exam.
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Palestinians and Israelis are Doomed

Kalb-Baladi - Mon, 2009-01-05 16:25 By zabinzo
The images of dead and imjured Palestinian babies and children beamed on TV 24 hours a day are very disturbing. Many see the Israeli actions as criminal and disproportionate which kinda makes sense given that the arithmetic of death stands currently at 500+ Palestinians (including more than 100 children) to 5 Israelis. The weird thing is that the Israelis who say they are defending themselves have killed a hell of alot of civillians, but they claim that they are doing their utmost best to avoid civillian deaths, while Hamas are deliberately trying to kill Israeli civillians with their ineffective Qassams because this is the only way at their disposal to resist the occupation. Who has the moral high ground here?
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Links for January 5th

The Arabist - Mon, 2009-01-05 15:00 By arabist

Links from my del.icio.us account for January 5th:  read more »

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Links January 2nd to January 5th

The Arabist - Mon, 2009-01-05 14:00 By arabist

Links from my del.icio.us account for January 2nd through January 5th:  read more »

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The Arab Media Agenda

Chocolate Mints In a Jar - Mon, 2009-01-05 08:45 By jessyz
I have a very interesting question.  What do you think the Arabic Media should be doing in the current state of crisis in Ghazzeh? Yesterday, I happened to catch part of a show called “Al I7′tirak”, the presenter was calling strategic analysts and asking them what they thought and managed to confirm that mos of the [...]
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Hamas and Hezbollah - the difference

missive-attack {بنت اجنبية} - Mon, 2009-01-05 03:21 By D.
Noah Pollack writes:

Nobody knows at this moment whether Hamas is 'deterable'. The question depends on whether Hamas actually intends to fight to the last man and on the efficacy of the IDF’s ground war.
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Seek inspiration

Point studios - Wed, 2009-01-07 08:31 By Abdelrahman

Hello, I know I haven't posted here for awhile I'm really sorry about that, I was really busy those last few months, but I hope this is going to change, anyway let's get in the topic.

Do you know this boring feeling you feel when you are in a middle of a creative project but your creative instinct is in a deep rest.

Get out of the bad mode and love what you do, here are some links that may help.

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Israel strike kills up to 60 members of one family - Telegraph

From the field - Wed, 2009-01-07 04:31 By arn
I will be posting an article later in the week analyzing the impact of Gaza on U.S. policy, which is undermined by stories like this one.
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Alexandria … Again

Thoughts of the Thought-Less - Wed, 2009-01-07 01:17 By Shimaa Gamal

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The Hamas Dickheads Exposed

Kalb-Baladi - Wed, 2009-01-07 00:38 By zabinzo
More than a year ago a video emerged on Youtube showing a senior Hamas official, Ghazi Hamad hanging out with babes. Very un-hamas isn't it? Interestingly someone managed to get the original video off Youtube, but it was posted again.

Where is Ghazi Hamad now? Any wild guesses? Is he fighting with the Mujahideen? No. Is he planning the strategy in a secret bunker in Gaza? No. Is he firing Qassams? No. I'll tell you...
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513) Marriage, Top Reasons - Part I !

M . O . H . @ . L . Y . I . C . S - Tue, 2009-01-06 16:42 By Mohaly
So can you list at least 5 top reasons for guys, and 5 top reasons for girls to get married?P.S. there can be common stuff between the two lists.
MohalyMohaly - All Rights Reserved 2007.
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ساعد المصابين من غزة بتحويل رصيد من تليفونك المحمول

moftasa.net - Tue, 2009-01-06 14:55 By mostafa
هناك أكثر من 100 مصاب فلسطيني بالمستشفيات المصرية. أغلبهم تعرض لإصابات خطيرة و يحكوا قصص مرعبة.

قابلت بعضهم بثلاث مستشفيات مختلفة. أكثريتهم مدنيين و هناك أطفال.

الأعتدائات على غزة لم تفرق بين المدنيين و الغير مدنيين.

يمكنك مساعدة المصابين بتحويل رصيد من تليفونك المحمول لتليفوناتهم. دقيقة المكالمة لغزة تتكلف حوالي 5 جنيهات  read more »

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Transfer mobile phone credit to injured Gazans in hospitals in Egypt

moftasa.net - Tue, 2009-01-06 13:38 By mostafa

There are more than 100 injured Palestinians in Egyptian hospitals. Most of them suffered difficult, life-threatening, disabling or disfiguring injuries and they speak of horror stories.

I personally met some of them in three different hospitals. Many of the casualties are civilians including children.

The attacks on Gaza didn't discriminate between civilians or non-civilians.

You can help the injured from Gaza by transfering mobile credit to their phones. A one minute phone call to Gaza costs around 5 EGPs.  read more »

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Gideon Rachman offers a penetrating essay on Israel's decision to launch the Gaza war

From the field - Tue, 2009-01-06 10:59 By arn
Few of the press commentaries have even commented on Israel role in creating the dreadful humanitarian conditions in Gaza prior to the Gaza war. Rachman makes the important point that the sine qua non for Hamas to agree in December to a six-month extension of the ceasefire (tahdiyeh) was for Israel to end the embargo of Gaza. Israel had agreed to allow the free flow of goods into Gaza when it agreed to the ceasefire in June 2008, but never lived up to its side of the deal.
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Some Might Be More Fortunate Than Others!

Baha'i Faith in Egypt and Iran: Persecution of the Baha'is in the Middle East - Tue, 2009-01-06 02:56 By Bilo
While several thousand Baha'is continue to struggle in Egypt to survive in an oppressive environment that sanctions discrimination against them by depriving them identification (ID) documents, the Egyptian Ministry of Interior and the Foreign Ministry are deputizing emissaries to the United States and Canada to meet with Egyptian expatriates, in these countries, so that they would facilitate and expedite the issue of ID cards to these citizens living abroad. This information was published in...

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Time

Collage - Mon, 2009-01-05 20:03 By collage

Time has the ability to heal just about anything.  I haven’t forgotten, i just no longer remember.  read more »

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Best.E-mail.Ever.

Things On My Mind Grapes - Mon, 2009-01-05 15:21 By thingsonmymindgrapes
Except from a Facebook message I just received from a great friend from grad school:

"Ha I knew that Badu cd would creep on you. It's got the right blend of political activism, introspection, and sexuality...oh shit, wait I was describing us!"

Truest words ever typed.
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US coverage of Gaza War

The Arabist - Mon, 2009-01-05 14:31 By arabist

pIndustry watchdog emEditor #38; Publisher/em:/p

blockquoteNEW YORK (Commentary) Israel launched its much-anticipated invasion of Gaza on Saturday. For over a week, U.S. media had provided largely one-sided coverage of the conflict, with little editorializing or commentary arguing against broader Israeli actions.

Most notably, after more than eight days of Israeli bombing and Hamas rocket launching in Gaza, The New York Times had produced exactly one editorial, not a single commentary by any of its columnists, and only two op-eds (one already published elsewhere). The editorial, several days ago, did argue against the wisdom of a ground invasion - - but even though that invasion had become ever more likely all week the paper did not return to this subject.  read more »

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Word of the Day: Emancipate

Chocolate Mints In a Jar - Mon, 2009-01-05 11:12 By jessyz
emancipate (ih-MAN-si-pate), verb To free or liberate from slavery, restraint, oppression, or bondage. Many young people feel that an eighteenth birthday has the power to emancipate them from their parents’ rules. I think you can guess what we need to be emancipated from.
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So what next?

missive-attack {بنت اجنبية} - Mon, 2009-01-05 03:21 By D.
Check out this link - seems like the gutsy journo who chucked his footwear at Bush has left a legacy in the protest-sphere.

So Israel has launched its ground invasion, which, according to the IDF, will be short but intensive, in their words, 'major, but relatively short term.'
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Salafis?

missive-attack {بنت اجنبية} - Mon, 2009-01-05 03:21 By D.
In a footnote at this link Rob from Arabic Media Shack briefly refers to the possibility of not only an ideologically fortified Hamas at the end of the campaign, but a potential shift to religious extremes with the weakening of Hamas.
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