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London. en Vox Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:57:00 -0700 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/printer-friendly.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Ahmed) http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/printer-friendly.html?_c=feed-rss http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/printer-friendly.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:57:00 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/link/6a00e3989f590d000300fa9687faf10002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a1.vox.com/6a00e3989f590d000300fa9687faf10002-50si" alt="Printer Friendly" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/printer-friendly.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e3989f590d00030100a7e8ffe7000e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/four-films-in-24-hours.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Ahmed) http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/four-films-in-24-hours.html?_c=feed-rss http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/four-films-in-24-hours.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:56:31 -0700 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/four-films-in-24-hours.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e3989f590d000300fa9686de9e0002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> arab film egyptian egypt algerian algeria syrian lebanese lebanon http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/expectations-and-interpretations.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Ahmed) http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/expectations-and-interpretations.html?_c=feed-rss http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/expectations-and-interpretations.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:21:20 -0700 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/expectations-and-interpretations.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e3989f590d000300fae8cae69f000b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> expectation reason gratitude history internal thoughts interpretation http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/the-yacoubian-building.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Ahmed) http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/the-yacoubian-building.html?_c=feed-rss http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/the-yacoubian-building.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:17:48 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/video/6a00e3989f590d000300fa968559280002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a0.vox.com/6a00e3989f590d000300fa968559280002-50si" alt="Interview with director and star of &quot;The Yacoubian Building&quot;" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/the-yacoubian-building.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e3989f590d000300fae8c99824000b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> yacoubian building egypt cairo adel imam egyptian http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/hal-david.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Ahmed) http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/hal-david.html?_c=feed-rss http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/hal-david.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:59:23 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/video/6a00e3989f590d000300fa9685591f0003.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00e3989f590d000300fa9685591f0003-50si" alt="Dionne Warwick Anyone Who Had A Heart 1963 Top 10 Bacharach" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/hal-david.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e3989f590d000300fad696ef970005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> hal david burt bacharach dionne warwick http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/women-are-from-venus-men-are-from-mars.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Ahmed) http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/women-are-from-venus-men-are-from-mars.html?_c=feed-rss http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/women-are-from-venus-men-are-from-mars.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:04:39 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/video/6a00e3989f590d000300fad6975cf90004.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a1.vox.com/6a00e3989f590d000300fad6975cf90004-50si" alt="Dimitri the stud" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/women-are-from-venus-men-are-from-mars.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e3989f590d000300fa968442450002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> men women dating dimitry the-stud http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/counter-intuition.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Ahmed) http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/counter-intuition.html?_c=feed-rss http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/counter-intuition.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:55:34 -0700 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/counter-intuition.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e3989f590d000300fad69744040004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/nightmare-of-the-eurostar.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Ahmed) http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/nightmare-of-the-eurostar.html?_c=feed-rss http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/nightmare-of-the-eurostar.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:53:10 -0700 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/nightmare-of-the-eurostar.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e3989f590d000300fa968443fb0003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> paris london eurostar http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/from-the-gut.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Ahmed) http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/from-the-gut.html?_c=feed-rss http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/from-the-gut.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:28:15 -0700 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/from-the-gut.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e3989f590d000300fae8c65029000b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> love parents son airport farewell arguments http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/a-friend-comes-to-visit.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Ahmed) http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/a-friend-comes-to-visit.html?_c=feed-rss http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/a-friend-comes-to-visit.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:57:27 -0700 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://ahmedi.vox.com/library/post/a-friend-comes-to-visit.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e3989f590d000300fa9680492d0003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> ageing competition worthiness struggle winning youth