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“America will deal with the Islamists or anyone else who can deliver what they want,”

from a very interesting article from the nyt about jordan ...

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To my Syrian brothers and sisters: don't mimic the Lebanese when they take pride in someone who is (in reality or through the imagination) of Lebanese origin even if he/she has never ever made any connection to his/her real or imaginative roots. Steve Jobs did not have any dealings with his Syrian father: he was raised by different parents. And most importantly, Jobs never ever made any connection with Syrians or Arabs. Just avoid the silly and humiliating path of Lebanese popular culture.

angry arab

true or false

it is better to be alone than in bad company

true or false

if you don't believe in yourself nobody else will

well said

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking. - Khalil Gibran

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"He can't believe it is over. He is a very stubborn man."

Afaf Naged, 71, a former member of the board of directors of the state-owned National Bank of Egypt.

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mumblings

opium is the religion of the masses ...

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Dr. Asad Abukhalil (the Angry Arab) recently returned from a trip to Lebanon ...

I don't like Beirut: it is too noisy and too dirty and too pretentious and too sleazy and too ugly and too lost and too dazed and too polluted and too stressful and too corrupt and too fake.

i agree with everything he said ... except for the hating beirut part ...

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"I won't be denied my Masturbating Bear!"

Conan O'Brien, in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, commenting on whether he is legally allowed to bring over his trademark gags to his new show set to air in November on TBS

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"The more inclined a city or town was toward modernity and the West, the less was its contribution to resistance."
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Peace process? What peace process? That's so nineties.

Ahmad Aweidah, head of the Palestinian stock exchange, commenting on the resumption of Middle East peace talks
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makes you go hmmm

There was one man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatter-brained woman, sacrificing everything in his life for her - friends, work, even respectability - only to acknowledge one evening that he had never loved her. He was bored, that's all, bored, like most people; so he created from scratch a life of complications and drama for himself. Something's got to happen - that's the explanation for most human undertakings.

Albert Camus, The Fall

mumblings

they say money doesn't bring happiness but whenever i find money in one of my pockets i'm ecstatic ...

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I don't know if Cheryl is going to want to support England. She might be a bit anti-England players at the moment. If she is looking for a new nation to follow at the World Cup, she should look no further than Argentina.
We play the prettiest football, have the prettiest players, and Argentinian men also know how to treat their women. She would of course have to do the Tango. I don't think there would be a shortage of Argentinian players willing to help teach her.

Lionel Messi talking about Cheryl Cole who recently split from her husband England footballer Ashley Cole because he was cheating on her

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I thought about where's there a lot of money with no shame attached. Then I thought about the Middle East because of Dubai and Abu Dhabi and their extravagance.

Writer and director Michael Patrick King, on why he chose the Arab world as a setting for "Sex and the City 2"
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Thank you Jesus for dying and rising and giving us a 4 day weekend.... Oh, and thanks for redeeming our sins and saving our souls and what not....

my friend rami's status on facebook

that's deep

reading the road these days by cormac mccarthy ... no i did not get it because of the movie ... i've had this book for a year now ... but i will admit the fact that it's been made into a movie kind of encouraged me to finally read it ... anyway there was a nice quote in there ... when i read it i was like that is blog-worthy ... so here it is ...

You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.

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we must first decolonize the mind before we decolonize the land

Sousan Hammad in her latest article

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When I was in the West Bank, before I went, I was told that the Palestinians are going to hurt me, they are going to do awful things to me. But they were the ones that protected me. In one demonstration, in 2006, near Ramallah, I lost some of my hearing because an Israeli sound bomb went off very close to me. The Palestinians near me were very concerned. I was strip-searched, internally searched at Israel's David Ben Gurion airport, I was told that “I was a terrorist, I'm a security risk.” An 80-year-old woman is a terrorist? What, do I have a bomb in my vagina?
Hedy Epstein

Hedy Epstein is what some might see as a contradiction in terms: a survivor of the Holocaust and also a staunch advocate for the Palestinian people. Born in 1924 in Freiburg, Germany, Epstein was 14 when she escaped from Nazi persecution via the Kinderstransport to England. Since her 1948 arrival in the U.S., Epstein has been an advocate for peace and human rights.
In 2001 she founded the St. Louis chapter of the Women in Black anti-war group that originated in Israel, and has actively advocated for Palestinian rights since visiting the West Bank in 2003. As the last decade came to a close, Epstein continued her advocacy by traveling with the women’s peace advocacy group CodePink to the Gaza Freedom March. The Dec. 31 march was a planned nonviolent demonstration to protest Israel’s blockade of Gaza, with 1,000 advocates from abroad joining Palestinians in a march to the Gaza-Israel border checkpoint.
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"There is no justice," said Bura Sadoun Ismael, who was wounded by two bullets and shrapnel during the shooting. "I expected the American court would side with the Blackwater security guards"

Iraqis seeking justice for 17 people shot dead at a Baghdad intersection responded with bitterness and outrage Friday at a U.S. judge's decision to throw out a case against a Blackwater security team accused in the killings.
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