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		<title>Mr. Hitchens Goes to Beirut: Lessons on Violence and Silence in the Levant</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a month ago, Christopher Hitchens, one of the great English-language essayists of our time, passed away. In the time since that unfortunate loss, flood of obituaries has honored the man. According to the standard accounts, Hitchens was a writer, a rascal, and advocate possessing a remarkable talent for provoking and alienating others – even when he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pagelebanon.com&amp;blog=9101974&amp;post=924&amp;subd=pagelebanon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;It&#8217;s Time to Finish the Job:&#8221; Biggie&#8217;s Take on the Region (Christmas Conversations, Volume II)</title>
		<link>http://pagelebanon.com/2012/01/19/its-time-to-finish-the-job-biggies-take-on-the-region-christmas-conversations-volume-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Silent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As if the advice and probing questions of &#8220;Guest&#8221; weren&#8217;t enough, I&#8217;ve had to sift through hours of tape to bring you the best of &#8220;Biggie&#8217;s&#8221; take on the region. While that&#8217;s not a problem from an entertainment standpoint, it&#8217;s a little frustrating to listen to successive barbs directed towards you in what amounts to a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pagelebanon.com&amp;blog=9101974&amp;post=917&amp;subd=pagelebanon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Go Back to America:&#8221; The Guest Strikes Again (Christmas Conversations, Volume II)</title>
		<link>http://pagelebanon.com/2012/01/13/go-back-to-america-the-guest-strikes-again-christmas-conversations-volume-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://pagelebanon.com/2012/01/13/go-back-to-america-the-guest-strikes-again-christmas-conversations-volume-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Silent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Year after year, &#8220;Guest&#8221; has entertained the family with his worldly take on politics and culture. He&#8217;s an experienced traveler who&#8217;s done business in all kinds of places. In our conversations, Guest has developed a new international relations discipline that I&#8217;ll call &#8220;Realist Conservative Conspiratory Casual (RC3).&#8221; For the most part, his speculations are merely [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pagelebanon.com&amp;blog=9101974&amp;post=914&amp;subd=pagelebanon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Conversations, Volume II: Introduction, Arab Spring, and Steve Jobs</title>
		<link>http://pagelebanon.com/2012/01/02/christmas-conversations-volume-ii-introduction/</link>
		<comments>http://pagelebanon.com/2012/01/02/christmas-conversations-volume-ii-introduction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forget about winter merriment. As well as challenging waistlines and livers across the country, Lebanon’s Christmas season offers no respite from intense political debate. Indeed, with members of the family back in town, the holidays are closer to a prolonged political brawl &#8211; with breaks to eat and drink, then eat and drink some more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pagelebanon.com&amp;blog=9101974&amp;post=909&amp;subd=pagelebanon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Botox Revolution: Appearances, Activism, and Beirut&#8217;s Socialite Reformist Scene</title>
		<link>http://pagelebanon.com/2011/12/19/the-botox-revolution-appearances-activism-and-beiruts-socialite-reformist-scene/</link>
		<comments>http://pagelebanon.com/2011/12/19/the-botox-revolution-appearances-activism-and-beiruts-socialite-reformist-scene/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s no easy way to say this. Lebanese women are exhibitionists. And I love them for it. At a recent electoral law reform conference, a female panelist went out of her way to argue that the general public, or perhaps the male public, unfairly accuses Lebanese women of “exhibitionism” and “an obsession with appearances.” She [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pagelebanon.com&amp;blog=9101974&amp;post=905&amp;subd=pagelebanon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Big Cat&#8217;s Out of the Bag: A Moment of Truth, a Lifetime of Duplicity from Bashar al-Assad</title>
		<link>http://pagelebanon.com/2011/12/13/the-big-cats-out-of-the-bag-a-moment-of-truth-a-lifetime-of-duplicity-from-bashar-al-assad/</link>
		<comments>http://pagelebanon.com/2011/12/13/the-big-cats-out-of-the-bag-a-moment-of-truth-a-lifetime-of-duplicity-from-bashar-al-assad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Syrian President Bashar al-Assad keeps making all the wrong moves. In a recent interview with ABC’s Barbara Walters, the former doctor sounded more like a butcher – and a heartless one at that. He lied and deflected questions. He made light of a dire situation. He rejected international conventions and global standards on news reporting, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pagelebanon.com&amp;blog=9101974&amp;post=902&amp;subd=pagelebanon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Oasis of Steel and Glass: A (Westernized) Levantine Impression of Abu Dhabi</title>
		<link>http://pagelebanon.com/2011/12/04/an-oasis-of-steel-and-glass-a-westernized-levantine-impression-of-abu-dhabi/</link>
		<comments>http://pagelebanon.com/2011/12/04/an-oasis-of-steel-and-glass-a-westernized-levantine-impression-of-abu-dhabi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 06:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pagelebanon.com/?p=895</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Middle East is not supposed to look this way. Organized city grids, pre-planned mixed-use neighborhoods, green highway medians, strip malls, and a street lamp on every corner. Don’t forget elegant, if empty, steel buildings and roads so smooth that you feel guilty driving on them. From the skies, in one of Etihad’s plush planes, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pagelebanon.com&amp;blog=9101974&amp;post=895&amp;subd=pagelebanon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keepin&#8217; Busy: Articles on Independence and the LF, Apathy in Casablanca, and Egypt on the Horizon</title>
		<link>http://pagelebanon.com/2011/11/26/keepin-busy-articles-on-independence-and-the-lf-apathy-in-casablanca-and-egypt-on-the-horizon/</link>
		<comments>http://pagelebanon.com/2011/11/26/keepin-busy-articles-on-independence-and-the-lf-apathy-in-casablanca-and-egypt-on-the-horizon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 11:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Silent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, in part to prove to my friends that I actually write once in a while, I was fortunate enough to publish a couple pieces in NOW Lebanon (some readers might think that an unfortunate event but, politics aside, they&#8217;re a creative and accomodating bunch). One piece, &#8220;The Beirut autumn,&#8221; was an observational commentary of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pagelebanon.com&amp;blog=9101974&amp;post=887&amp;subd=pagelebanon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life in Lebanon: An Update on the &#8220;User&#8217;s Manual&#8221; and &#8220;10 Resolutions&#8221; for Lebanon</title>
		<link>http://pagelebanon.com/2011/11/20/life-in-lebanon-an-update-on-the-users-manual-and-10-resolutions/</link>
		<comments>http://pagelebanon.com/2011/11/20/life-in-lebanon-an-update-on-the-users-manual-and-10-resolutions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, while battling the bar exam blues, I put together a list of resolutions &#8211; doubling as a &#8221;user&#8217;s manual&#8221; for others &#8211; that I hoped to live by upon returning to Lebanon. I&#8217;ve been in Beirut since the end of August and will be heading back to the U.S. sometime in January, so an interim review [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pagelebanon.com&amp;blog=9101974&amp;post=880&amp;subd=pagelebanon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tell &#8216;Em Why You Mad, Son! Understanding Lebanon&#8217;s Uncivil Political Discourse</title>
		<link>http://pagelebanon.com/2011/11/16/tell-em-why-you-mad-son-understanding-lebanons-uncivil-political-discourse/</link>
		<comments>http://pagelebanon.com/2011/11/16/tell-em-why-you-mad-son-understanding-lebanons-uncivil-political-discourse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, two Lebanese politicians literally went at each other&#8217;s throats on national television. Setting aside a moment of personal glee - I like a good Lebanese smackdown every now and again (see Qifa Nabki for a list of the best) - the incident was both disappointing and extraordinarily dangerous. For that reason, in contrast to my usual pattern, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pagelebanon.com&amp;blog=9101974&amp;post=874&amp;subd=pagelebanon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Bourgeois Pigs and Lebanon&#8217;s Leftist Elite</title>
		<link>http://pagelebanon.com/2011/11/08/the-bourgeois-pigs-and-lebanons-leftist-elite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In New York last week, I was fortunate enough to hang out at one of my favorite spots: The Bourgeois Pig. Don’t let the name fool you. This place is all about charcuterie, cheese, wine, and things of that sort. Just like many people in the Lebanese Left (and the “Left” around the world). To [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pagelebanon.com&amp;blog=9101974&amp;post=870&amp;subd=pagelebanon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Macho-Sexualism: Understanding the Lebanese Male</title>
		<link>http://pagelebanon.com/2011/10/07/macho-sexualism-understanding-the-lebanese-male/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I knew the men were Lebanese,&#8221; an American friend of mine once said, &#8220;because they were well-groomed, slightly overdressed, and just too pretty&#8230; but they looked like they had &#8216;disappeared&#8217; one or two people. I didn’t know what to think, but I just knew they were Lebanese! And I was right.&#8221; That was five years [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pagelebanon.com&amp;blog=9101974&amp;post=851&amp;subd=pagelebanon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The End of Evolution and the Last (Lebanese) Man: Four Brands, Three Languages, Two Passports, One City</title>
		<link>http://pagelebanon.com/2011/09/07/the-end-of-evolution-and-the-last-lebanese-man-four-brands-three-languages-two-passports-one-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(NOTE: The following post was the result of a serendipitous encounter at the beach, which pushed a bunch of tangential thoughts into my brain. It overlaps slightly with the forthcoming “Macho-Sexualism: Understanding the Lebanese Male,” which I was writing at the time&#8230;) The other day, at La Plage – everyone’s favorite part pool, part car [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pagelebanon.com&amp;blog=9101974&amp;post=855&amp;subd=pagelebanon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Grandfather, Hizbullah, and the Hobbesian Jungle</title>
		<link>http://pagelebanon.com/2011/08/20/my-grandfather-hizbullah-and-the-hobbesian-jungle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 00:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“You need a gun.” It was February 14, 2005. Hours earlier, in a massive blast that shook Beirut to its core, assassins had taken the life of former Lebanese prime minister Rafic Hariri and dozens more. Between bouts of shock and rage, many Lebanese pointed the finger at Syria, but others focused their attention on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pagelebanon.com&amp;blog=9101974&amp;post=848&amp;subd=pagelebanon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ministries of Tomorrow: Creating a Cabinet for the New Lebanon</title>
		<link>http://pagelebanon.com/2011/08/11/ministries-of-tomorrow-creating-a-cabinet-for-the-new-lebanon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 23:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The unrest that has swept though the Middle East this year, particularly the increasingly vigorous revolt - excuse me, D.C. policy wonks, &#8220;transition&#8221; - in Syria, has had little actual resonance in the streets and squares of Beirut, at least when compared to Lebanon&#8217;s own mass mobilizations of 2005. What the Problem Is, Baby? One underexplored element of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pagelebanon.com&amp;blog=9101974&amp;post=838&amp;subd=pagelebanon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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