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2008-07-16T14:57:00Z

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four films in 24 hours

2008-07-12T23:56:31Z

For no good reason, and probably as a way of escape, I have gone to see four Arabic movies in under 24 hours. The BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) is organising a special celebration of movies from the Arab world. It kicked of...

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expectations and interpretations

2008-07-11T02:21:20Z

Expectations play a really important role in our lives. We expect things for ourselves. Then we get into a state of competition with ourselves to achieve the expectations. Every so often, this competition tires us out. It is certainly burdenin...

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The Yacoubian Building

2008-07-06T23:17:48Z

So, I have finally managed to watch the biggest film to come out of Egypt for the past three years. Based on the most compelling novel to come out of Egypt in the last ten years or more (The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany), the film is a tw...

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Hal David

2008-07-05T22:59:23Z

I am in love with yet another Burt Bacharach song. This is the sublime "Anyone who had a heart" by Dionne Warwick. There have been many cover versions (including Shelby Lynne's) but this is the neatest, the most elegant, the original that inspir...

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Women are from Venus, Men are from Mars

2008-07-05T18:04:39Z

Okay. Check this video out. Before you do, let me tell you that it has garnered 200,000 hits on youtube in a week. It has got all the makings of a strong viral hit. The story is that an apparently elegant girl, called Olga, handed her busine...

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counter-intuition

2008-07-04T00:55:34Z

Is it true to say that our ideas are out there in a realm called the ideas realm? That we have to leave our selves and travel to that realm in order to lay claim to an idea. That ideas do not come to us; we go to them. That we let ourselves f...

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nightmare of the eurostar

2008-07-02T05:53:10Z

So, no updates for a while. Is nothing going on? This is a riff right from tonight's events. A colleague and I have a paper at a conference in Paris. I had registered and paid the conference fees about a month ago. Now, I simply had to book a...

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From the gut

2008-06-25T23:28:15Z

2008-04-09 18:32 My father went into a small rage on the way to the airport. My mother angered him tremendously because she had diverted a point he was making (about the disadvantages of buying a car on loan) into another story. It was shocking...

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A friend comes to visit

2008-06-19T01:57:27Z

A friend comes to visit. Two men growing up. Two men getting more burdened by life and yet unwilling to let go of the search for excitement, for success, for the things that made us gel as younger men about 12 years ago. Still struggling to und...

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