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		<title>rainman (but not as you&#8217;d know it) postcard from gaza city</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Postcard from Lama in Gaza City&#8230;  Everyone is asking me why I haven&#8217;t been writing lately. It is very difficult to write these days.   I feel that we are trapped from outside and inside.  Because of the events which have taken place here over the last few weeks I did not even have the chance [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=londonrihla.wordpress.com&amp;blog=331428&amp;post=34&amp;subd=londonrihla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>frankfurt recovery, goodbye politskovskaya</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just about recovered from Frankfurt Bk Fair; a thoroughly hideous experience. Mainly because I was booted out of a party I didn&#8217;t want to go to for not having an invite (booted in unceremoniously Germanic style, I might add). Also, due to my last minute decision to go, I was &#8216;bunking in&#8217; with a contact. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=londonrihla.wordpress.com&amp;blog=331428&amp;post=33&amp;subd=londonrihla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>first my land, now my guccis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A project I have been involved with, showcasing Palestinian Women Writers in an anthology and in a lively event at the Purcell Rooms, South Bank, London, has received some good reviews: from Alev Adil in the Independent and a mention from Kamila Shamsie in the Guardian. This is an interesting interview with the editor of the anthology.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=londonrihla.wordpress.com&amp;blog=331428&amp;post=32&amp;subd=londonrihla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>postcard from tel aviv</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[under the bench was a cat that walked away the minute i sat down &#8211; email from Adania Shibli visiting Tel Aviv&#8230; Dear all,With a sense of shame, I send you below the details of a personal encounter I came across few days ago, which as much as it is unworthy of speaking about compared [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=londonrihla.wordpress.com&amp;blog=331428&amp;post=31&amp;subd=londonrihla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>hummus for breakfast in downtown beirut</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2006 21:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[December last year I spent a few days in Beirut, visiting the book fair. I was so excited, because one of my publishing pals promised to take me to the original Maroush  in the downtown area of the city. He had a flat just round the round the corner and had been breakfasting at Maroush [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=londonrihla.wordpress.com&amp;blog=331428&amp;post=23&amp;subd=londonrihla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the politics of bicycles 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 12:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Esfahan Bus Stop Women Originally uploaded by Lee Carruthers. &#8220;On the basis of a fatwa issued by the supreme religious guide [Ayatollah Khamenei], women cycling in public is prohibited. Disobeying such a fatwa within the Islamic Republic of Iran could lead to penalties such as imprisonment and flogging.&#8221; For an ongoing project I am collecting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=londonrihla.wordpress.com&amp;blog=331428&amp;post=17&amp;subd=londonrihla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the politics of bicycles</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 12:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally uploaded by anooshamen. &#8230;in my ongoing reading about Iran, I came across this blogentry (quoted in We are Iran)&#8230; &#8220;Her brother was three years older&#8230;sometimes, after supper on a cool summer&#8217;s evening, he would go foor a ride on his bicycle&#8230;She would normally read a book while her brother was out&#8230;for the thousandth time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=londonrihla.wordpress.com&amp;blog=331428&amp;post=16&amp;subd=londonrihla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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