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Photos From Iraq: November 2005
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The country that once was! Wednesday, November 23, 2005. The Marshes in Southern Iraq. Have you seen the Marshes in Southern Iraq before? Then have a look! Posted by Morbid Smile at 11/23/2005 07:07:00 PM. Friday, November 18, 2005. From two different places in one day. At the site where two suicide car bombers detonated vehicles in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Nov. 18, 2005, in a residential district, and near a hotel housing foreign journalists. Posted by Morbid Smile at 11/18/2005 11:15:00 PM. A few bricks ...
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madly in love with Iraq: 2006-03-26
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Madly in love with Iraq. The subject I don't like to speak about. Last night one of the members in my gym was wondering about my accent. Take a guess! I replied. He immediately said, ‘are you Iraqi? You guessed right. How did you know? He answered back in English, I am an Iraqi Sunni! And you speak like my father! This guy’s mother is Swedish; his Iraqi grandparents immigrated from Iraq in the late forties! Never seen Iraq in his life and he doesn’t speak a word of Arabic. Later on when they did broadcas...
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madly in love with Iraq: 2006-04-23
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Madly in love with Iraq. I was sitting in the park last week when a small girl of about 4 years came up to me and said Can I tell you a joke? I hugged her and replied of course you can; go on , Why is Cinderella bad in football? I asked, Because her coach is a pumpkin! I laughed so much; the little one couldn’t believe she was that funny and went back to her mother jumping with a triumphant smile;. The pumpkin reminded me somehow of the turban, not only the sound of it but the shape as well. Then I quick...
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madly in love with Iraq: 2006-03-12
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Madly in love with Iraq. My own experience with Democracy. The word Democracy itself sounds like music to the ear. All speak about it, run after it and want to achieve it. For me it first meant security, few years later it developed to fairness, and further on, to get one’s rights to the full; the last stage the word itself diminished and all I care for is how to cope with new taxes, change in interest rate, and the rise in fuel and transport fares and so on. The letters were quite upsetting and intimida...
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madly in love with Iraq: 2006-02-26
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Madly in love with Iraq. Rain Rain Rain, the theme of this city; it’s all about rain. He laughed again and said what do you think then? The weather man is misleading us? We live in an island, and it is just impossible to be accurate. It suddenly hit me; I come from a country where the media lies all the time; to the extent that people don’t even trust them with the weather forecast! We are blessed with the BBC, and it is by large an independent entity. On the 4th of November every year, we have Guy fawkes.
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ابن مصر: July 2005
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اسكندرية ماريا.وترابها زعفران. Sunday, July 31, 2005. ا يه الحكاية يا جدعان هو عزرائيل ده منوفي ولا ايه؟ Posted by ابن مصر at 7:40 PM. امبارح كان عمري سنتين جا جا جوجو. ايه يا منير ده حرام عليك هي نقصاك انت التاني. Posted by ابن مصر at 7:15 PM. اعطاها الوصل بهدوء اجابته بنفس الحده انت اشتريت الفستان من نيوجيرسي مش كده؟ Posted by ابن مصر at 5:09 PM. Sunday, July 24, 2005. المؤمن لايلدغ من جحر مرتين.مثل لا ينطبق علي الامن والشرطة في مصر ليس لانهم غير مؤمنين لاسمح الله انما بسبب ان العملية الامنية عندنا...
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Saba7ak Sampateek: .....مش سمباتيك
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Wednesday, May 03, 2006. تصحى من النوم مخنوقه ومقبوضه كعادتها من فتره. تفتح عينيها غصب عنها عشان تنزل الدموع اللى محوشاها من فتره جواها. تغمض عينيها شويه عشان تمنع دموعها تنزل اكتر. تحاول ترجع تنام . تحس انها بتتخنق اكتر. تقوم من سريرها تتمشى فى اوضتها شويه. تبص للبلكونه . تفتكر حاجات كتير توجعها. تفتكر انها لازم تعيط قبل ما تتخنق اكتر. تلبس الروب الصوف بتاعها. تلم شعرها " كحكه" وتفتح البلكون تقف فيها شويه. تبص للقمر . عينيها تتملى دموع اكتر. تكلم القمر بصوت خانقه الدموع والوجع اللى جواها. تركيبة عجيبة ف...
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Saba7ak Sampateek: وآدى قهوتكوا اهيه
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Sunday, July 09, 2006. Posted by amina zaki at 10:40 AM. ده ايه الرقة دى بجد. حكايه القطه دى فكرتنى بفلم حبوا يخلصوا من وباء فدمروا بلد باكملها. بس ياترى بعد رمى القطه هتنام . Tab el otta zanbaha eah! Tab konti edhani wana arabiha lol. I always read ur posts 3la fikra . i like them but would like to see u optimistic ok? حزنتينى وخلتينى اتخيل معاكى الصورة بجد صورة حزينة مليانة جمال. احييك على التدوينة الجميلة. فكره جامده اوى. غيه اللى رابطنى بالحياه؟ طب أهى. وكل ده عشان أخلص من الحياه؟ أجدع واحد في الشارع.
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madly in love with Iraq: 2006-05-07
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Madly in love with Iraq. He is a newsagent up the road, an old Iraqi man with thick spectacles on. He keeps on feeding me with the latest, sometimes when I am in a bad mood I cross to the other side of the road; on other times it seems inevitable to have a chat. Never ever I heard positive or uplifting information from him. Not that I hold the poor man responsible, but I feel so relieved when I manage to escape him in the morning. He was the first face I met with when I entered SOAS. It started with an i...
