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		<title>Beirut&#8217;s Faces</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Photo Essay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Issue VII]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Gary Fox Gary Fox is a freelance photojournalist based in Dublin, Ireland. Having previously worked for agencies including Press Association, he is now concentrating on shooting video with DSLRs. His latest projects include shooting a documentary exploring the taboo surrounding mental health in Ireland. Gary is also presently involved in a tech startup company linking user [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turmoil at the borders: The Syrian crisis and Lebanon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Lebanon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; By Robin Martel &#160; Robin Martel holds a Masters degree from the School of Oriental &#38; African Studies. He has worked on the Middle East (with particular focus on Lebanon and Israel) for public institutions and charities. &#160; &#160; Almost inevitably, the protests against Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s regime have spilled over Syria&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uniting Contemporary Art and Islamic Traditions: The Jameel Prize</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Issue VII]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Amélie Rives &#160; Photo credit: Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris &#160; The Jameel Prize is an international prize for contemporary artists and designers inspired by Islamic traditions of craft and design. It has been awarded every two years since 2009. The works of the 2011 winner Rachid Koraïchi and the other nine finalists were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In spite of bloodshed, Arab revolts are good</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Issue VII]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Editorial February 2012 &#160; It may seem obvious to say the Arab revolts have been positive. But in recent months a narrative has emerged that has sought to highlight the fact that the Arab awakening have morphed into something very different from the scenes of jubilation and joy the world witnessed in Tahrirsquare on February [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art and revolution: The Syrian case</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.neareastquarterly.com/?p=1496</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Amélie Rives Amélie Rives is an editorial assistant at Near East Quarterly. She holds a Masters degree in Middle East Politics from London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Deraa, March 2011: In one of the very first large-scale anti-government protests in Syria, demonstrators tear down a statue of former president Hafiz al-Assad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is a Democratic, Unified Iraq Viable?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[﻿ &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; By Feisal al-Istrabadi Ambassador Feisal Amin Rasoul al-Istrabadi is the founding director of the Center for the Study of the Middle East (CSME) at Indiana University &#8211; Bloomington, where he is also University Scholar in International Law and Diplomacy.  He was deputy permanent representative of Iraq to the United Nations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview: Ahdaf Soueif &#8211; The Next Steps for Arab Societies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image: Eamon McCabe, the Guardian &#160; You write fiction and non fiction, novels, short stories and articles for newspapers and other publications. How do you view the social and political role of the Arab writer today in 2012? When we were in Tahrir for those 18 days plumbers invented washrooms, electricians devised ways to connect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey and the struggle for Syria: time for accountability</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Issue VII]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Julien Cecillon Julien Cecillon is Junior Research Fellow in the Turkish Studies Programme of Ifri (Institut français des relations internationales). He graduated from Grenoble&#8217;s Political Institute in 2009 and completed in 2010 a Master&#8217;s degree in &#8220;Middle East and Mediterranean Studies&#8221; from King&#8217;s College London. As part of his studies, he studied at Galatasaray [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Mossad and the CIA don&#8217;t want to bomb Iran &#8211; today</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Mutter Paul Mutter is a fellow at Truthout and a contributor to Salon, The Arabist, Foreign Policy in Focus and Mondoweiss. A graduate of Rutgers University, he blogs about – in no particular order of preference – the Saudi-American relationship, general defence/security issues in the Middle East, Israeli domestic politics and Islamist movements. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palestine&#8217;s Bid for UN Membership</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Noelle Higgins and Los Watkins Noelle Higgins is a lecturer in the School of Law and Government, at Dublin City University in Ireland. She is the author of “National Liberation Movements: The Need for a New Regime” (Martinus Nijhoff, 2010). Los Watkins is a senior lecturer in the School of Law, University of Hertfordshire [...]]]></description>
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