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life in the Middle East

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Bahrain and Yemen get PR help from Qorvis and Bell Pottinger Consulting Firms

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I wanted to share what some journalists have already picked up on: the influence two consulting firms in the US and UK are having on the me...
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Palestine at the UN, the Showdown Approaches

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Lately everyone is talking about the Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations. Though I have not written on my blog for some tim...
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Monday, October 25, 2010

Obstacles to Peace? Arab citizens of Israel

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An article I read recently made me again mourn the loss of complex thinking when it comes to Israel-Palestine. The article, which I read in ...
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Bans and Oaths

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The Israeli legislature, the Knesset, is scaring me lately. Last year, when I was living in Kufr Qara and first heard of the proposal for a ...
Monday, August 30, 2010

goodbye for now

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Well, this is my last post for the summer. I've been in Cairo for the past couple weeks, enjoying the Ramadan season with friends. Even ...
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Honesty: the Ground Zero mosque, Israel/Palestine, Muslims and the West

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Sitting in Cairo now, I’ve been thinking more about the conversations that I had with Israelis and Palestinians over the summer. I’ve also b...
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Monday, August 9, 2010

Meeting someone from Hevron

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Today, on the bus in central Israel , a girl sat next to me. She looked like she was about to go camping, wearing Teva sandals, sporty pants...
Sunday, August 8, 2010

Letting Muslims into our Hearts: the Mosque near Ground Zero

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As many of us have been seeing in the news recently, there is quite the controversy about the new mosque that received permission for constr...
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Monday, August 2, 2010

Shabbat Dinner in Jerusalem

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This Saturday, I went to my first ever Shabbat dinner. I also feel pretty special, because my first Shabbat dinner was in Jerusalem, the hol...
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Sunday, August 1, 2010

Is the Occupation really so bad?

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In some conversations I've had recently, some people seem to have the perception that the Occupation isn't so bad these days... that...
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