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		<title>The sound of music</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Recently, I watched two movies in which music was one of the main characters. Both set in the Middle-East, they give us an insight into how music can soothe the soul and go beyond conflict. In The Band&#8217;s Visit (http://www.thebandsvisit.com/intro.html), the orchestra of an Egyptian police division is en route to give a concert in Israel, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=menamusings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1699578&amp;post=47&amp;subd=menamusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Battle for Haditha</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 02:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ On January 30th was the launch on the big screen of &#8220;Battle for Haditha&#8221; by Nick Broomfield. Incidentally, it was also his birthday, as well as my husband&#8217;s birthday (Great and charming people were born on that day including Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gene Hackman, Dick Martin, Phil Collins or Christian Bale). I had seen the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=menamusings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1699578&amp;post=32&amp;subd=menamusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Through the prism of information</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minorities (I will not attempt to define this term here but that could be the topic of a coming post) is often a sensitive topic of research in the Middle East, not only because the region is a mosaic of cultures, religions and traditions, but also because governments, civil society organisations and the media are playing an important [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=menamusings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1699578&amp;post=17&amp;subd=menamusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Presentation</title>
		<link>http://menamusings.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/presentation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year I hope this year will be a fruitful and joyful year for everyone. I am a Master student at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) and I am mostly interested in the study of minorities and civil society in the Middle East and North Africa. I have wanted for a long time to share my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=menamusings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1699578&amp;post=15&amp;subd=menamusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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