Articles tagged "middle east"

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Various: The Rough Guide to Arabic Café

by Deanne Sole

[23.Jul.08] :. Listening to the Rough Guide to Arabic Café, I realised that this is not the same as the music you would expect to hear if you were sitting in a Western coffee shop.

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Books Review

The Great Arab Conquests by Hugh Kennedy

by Carlin Romano [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[12.Dec.07] :. Pair of books offer historical truths about Jewish, Arab territory.

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Amid crackdown, Egyptian journalist remains cheerfully defiant

by Liz Sly

[15.Oct.07] :. By Liz Sly Chicago Tribune (MCT)

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News

Hollywood goes to war: Mainstream movies focus on Iraq, terrorism

by Cary Darling [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[1.Oct.07] :. Writer Matthew Michael Carnahan makes a living pounding out movie scripts, where flights of fantasy and retreats from reality are the daily stock in trade. But a couple of autumns back, while...

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Arab bloggers pay toll for truth

by Stephen Franklin

[31.Jul.07] :. CAIRO—When Egyptian officials denied reports of a disturbance in downtown Cairo last year, Wael Abbas showed the truth: A political protest had turned ugly, and a group of young men had gone...

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Books Review

Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life by Sari Nusseibeh

by Carlin Romano [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[20.Apr.07] :. Bring together Palestinian philosopher Sari Nusseibeh (1949- ) and Israeli statesman Shimon Peres (1923-) and the first thought that occurs to any longtime observer of the Arab-Israeli conflict is: Get a room.

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