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Happy Birthday Khalil Gibran

Full Name: Gibran Khalil Gibran | جبران خليل جبران Born: January 6, 1883 — Bsharri, Lebanon Died: April 10, 1931 — New York City, USA Occupation(s): Poet, philosopher, artist, painter, … Continue reading

6 January, 2007 · 4 Comments

Amid dire world conflict, more expressions of friendship and goodwill

Don’t know about you in this Christeidhanukwanzaamas, but I’m exhausted. Seems that just when you get a break after a busy year, the body says to itself “OK, you can … Continue reading

27 December, 2006 · 8 Comments

Ben Heine’s amazing exhibition at the Art Loft

UPDATE: Ben has mirrored this post at his excellent blog: check it out  Imagine being able to teleport yourself inside a virtual world, across different locations and visit and interact … Continue reading

16 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

Channel surfing on Middle East TV

Its always a curious, interesting experience watching foreign language TV without subtitles. You can learn and discern a lot culturally, even without fully understanding the dialogue. At my parent’s place … Continue reading

15 December, 2006 · 15 Comments

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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