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Arab Emigrant - October 2006

poem through Babel Fish

I heard of a man
who says words so beautifully
that if he only speaks their name
women give themselves to him.
If I am dumb beside your body
while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips
it is because I hear a man climb stairs and clear his throat outside the door.

- Leonard Cohen

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The fish says:

If I speak him,
you inquired about the person
who says the extent word
where simply their first-rate women
give them themselves to him beautifully.
Silence like the tumor of our lips while if livening,
the thing you cannot say me on side of your body.

That me the person inquires
about that throat stairway outside the door
and that it rises to elbowroom.
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more NGO trouble

Australia,

Being in Beirut is not always the best fun, but it's not as bad as you might think


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summer, Kyoto, and an NGO

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The sun is out in Beirut and the grass is green and the heat is on. Summer is in full bloom in October, people. Five or six years back we would’ve been wearing long sleeves this time of year. But ever since then, winter has been pushed so far back that, last year only, we spent New Year s Eve in short sleeves. Almost


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Before the War Begins

The after effects of the war are a bit uglier than the demolished homes in southern Lebanon, or the demolished bridges and buildings all over the country. They are a bit sadder than the thousands who got killed or the hundreds of thousands who were displaced. The after effects are a bit dirtier than the garbage and cockroaches and rats that now occupy the streets of Beirut and other Lebanese cities.

Walking down a major street in the capital, I began noticing a recurrence of a strange phenomenon. Children (in Lebanon, this means anywhere between 6 and 60) and young men are standing in groups on the corners of the street dangerously waving pocket knives. These knives are a bit more intimidating than your mignon Swiss Army Knife. They are a bit more evil


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