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		<title>Crossing the Jordan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[palestine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In two days time I cross the Jordan into occupied Palestine. I will go there to bring in a new year. I find it so strange to say I am celebrating in Beir Zeit. It sounds so wrong, so problematic. I am going to my home, my land, my people and yet I feel such [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shalabieh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1437941&amp;post=762&amp;subd=shalabieh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Embroidery</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 07:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shalabieh</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[consume]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[embrodiery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[joy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://shalabieh.wordpress.com/?p=757</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I first started to cross stitch 12 years ago a friend of my mother&#8217;s taught me. It was really easy. You get a fabric with enough holes in it and count out the pattern. But it wasn&#8217;t about how easy it was or knowing how to count. It was about being completely and utterly consumed. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shalabieh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1437941&amp;post=757&amp;subd=shalabieh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Impressions of: Where Do We Go Now? By Nadine Labaki</title>
		<link>http://shalabieh.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/filmimpressions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shalabieh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nadine Labaki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Where do we go now]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://shalabieh.wordpress.com/?p=742</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week I went to see the film everyone is talking about “Where Do We Go Now?” By Nadine Labaki. I was really excited and expected a good show. And a good show it was. It made me laugh, it made me cry and it made me upset! The story is one that if it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shalabieh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1437941&amp;post=742&amp;subd=shalabieh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ramadan- A to do list in Amman</title>
		<link>http://shalabieh.wordpress.com/2011/08/14/ramdantodo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 11:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shalabieh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Amman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ramadan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[things to do]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://shalabieh.wordpress.com/?p=737</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, a lot of people are wondering what to do during Ramadan. It&#8217;s quiet, boring, slow, things shut down, our routines are disrupted and it seems like there is nothing to do! The other part of this is money, everything costs a lot of money to do&#8230; so here is my list of things to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shalabieh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1437941&amp;post=737&amp;subd=shalabieh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From Brown to Green Thumbs</title>
		<link>http://shalabieh.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/thumbs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 10:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shalabieh</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[self]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green thumbs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new experiences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[positive thinking]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://shalabieh.wordpress.com/?p=730</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For years I have believed that I can only kill plants. Anything green left in my care will wither and die. I even managed to kill a cactus at one point. Late last year the Jasmine tree cutting went brown, and I didn’t have to do anything really just leave them in water and they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shalabieh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1437941&amp;post=730&amp;subd=shalabieh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wein Ramadan?</title>
		<link>http://shalabieh.wordpress.com/2011/08/01/ramadan-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 11:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shalabieh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ramadan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[remembrance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ramadan. tradition]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://shalabieh.wordpress.com/?p=724</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So it is the first day of Ramadan, or is it? When I look around me, there is no Ramadan. Nothing around  me tells me it is except for the facebook statuses of old friends and of course the call to my mother where we chat about the ritual that is the first meal in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shalabieh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1437941&amp;post=724&amp;subd=shalabieh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letter Writing</title>
		<link>http://shalabieh.wordpress.com/2011/07/14/letterwriting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shalabieh</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://shalabieh.wordpress.com/?p=719</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I keep getting these invitations to join my &#8220;friends&#8221; on google +. I keep looking at these emails and I keep them marked in my inbox as unread. Why? Because I can&#8217;t decide if I want to join my &#8220;friends&#8221; in yet another online endeavor. After there is facebook, that I now use to play [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shalabieh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1437941&amp;post=719&amp;subd=shalabieh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maroun Al Ras, May 15</title>
		<link>http://shalabieh.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/marounalras/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 09:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shalabieh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nakba]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://shalabieh.wordpress.com/?p=704</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I started to write this on my way home after a day that started way too early for the weekend, but if truth be told it is like any day that is a day for going to the Palestinian border. It started with the scramble to find the bus that will take us there. We [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shalabieh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1437941&amp;post=704&amp;subd=shalabieh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html"> driving south</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">The caps</media:title>
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		<title>Your junk can be someone else&#8217;s treasure&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://shalabieh.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/treasure/</link>
		<comments>http://shalabieh.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/treasure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shalabieh</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://shalabieh.wordpress.com/?p=701</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So its that time of the year again&#8230; SPRING CLEANING. And as you go through your closets and cupboards and boxes and bags you will have things you don&#8217;t use anymore, things you don&#8217;t like anymore, things that don&#8217;t fit anymore, things you don&#8217;t have places for anymore&#8230; &#160; Don&#8217;t keep them&#8230; give me a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shalabieh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1437941&amp;post=701&amp;subd=shalabieh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back It Up</title>
		<link>http://shalabieh.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/backup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shalabieh</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://shalabieh.wordpress.com/?p=699</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been having a lot of different conversations or reading commentary on various things that have opinion and not fact as their argument.  Some of my comments have been heard and in others I am asked for the burden of proof, and other times people just dig their heels and stick to rumors and gossip. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shalabieh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1437941&amp;post=699&amp;subd=shalabieh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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