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Outsidetime: Heading to Beirut
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Sunday, November 11, 2007. And more to the point, is it true? If so, why have so few, indeed no, pro-Syrian MPs been killed, I am left wondering? If the US really wanted strife as an end in-itself, wouldn’t it be more effective to kill some Syrian MPs too, just to encourage the flames? So when I asked my taxi driver, who was taking me up Damascus’ Mt Qasion for a very windy night time view over the illuminated city, if he ever drives clients to Beirut, I was not surprised to hear that he often take...
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Outsidetime: Lebanon's Choice
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Saturday, November 24, 2007. This intimation reached a crescendo of homecoming when I spotted the Virgin Megastore dominating Martyr’s square. The plush, succulent bars of Gemayziz, as self-consciously hip and superior as it possible for a bar to get, further completed the scene; as did the prices which indicated that my Syrian days of spending less than ten pounds a day were definitively over. Are you in Kuwait or what? I'm confused. Also, I will be leaving Damascus on December 17th to head back to ...
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Outsidetime: Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley
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Sunday, December 16, 2007. Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley. Speaking for myself, I was aware of the risks, but they seemed too minimal to justify my hiding away. The recent attacks and violence in Lebanon were highly targeted, strategically focused affairs; and always inflicted upon other Lebanese people, not foreigners. Similarly, what did the violence recently ended at the Palestinian refugee camp and waged against the Lebanese army, have to do with me? Of which I am neither. View my complete profile.
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Outsidetime: Liar
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Tuesday, October 2, 2007. So when he asked me if I'd been to Israel I just said no while simultaneously wondering if my eye contact was relaxed and unassuming enough. I suppose that when you lie the eyes can give you away, either because they suddenly become distracted, or else too ardent in their gaze. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I am not what I am. My Main blog is at www.livingoutsidetime.blogspot.com. View my complete profile. Emily - Mıddle East.
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Outsidetime: Update
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Sunday, October 28, 2007. As my presumably small readership will have noted, I've been silent for over a week. This is not because I have become uncharacteristically laconic and spared the world my words but because I have opened a new blog at:. On that blog I write about my life and salient thoughts since leaving Egypt, and I will write about Kuwait, where I have now been living for 8 days. Achieving finally in my words what I accomplished in my body". Has a portentously messianic ring to it!
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Outsidetime: Ten Metres and the Moon
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Monday, October 15, 2007. Ten Metres and the Moon. A couple of days before I met Emily and her friends Israel performed that raid you'll have heard about, the air raid that Israel at the time denied but has now admitted performing. Some circles say Israel was attacking an emergent nuclear capacity imported via Tartous from North Korea. Whatever it was (obviously it was something), will no doubt come out in the wash. But the main feature of the whole scenario has been silence. I can, but then I bear no il...
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Outsidetime: The Middle East and Turkey
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Saturday, October 20, 2007. The Middle East and Turkey. When Emily and I talked generally about the Middle East we sighfully agreed that it’s in a mess. The ‘What if’ train of thought regarding the Ottomans choosing different friends during the First World War interests me greatly. Would it, moreover, through the sufferings it imposed on the Russian people, have established the conditions appropriate for the reception there of the ideas of Lenin and Trotsky. Would the Russian revolution have happened?
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Outsidetime: Reality Check
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Thursday, October 4, 2007. This blog has been hanging around in Syria for quite a while now. I just wanted to inform the universe that in fact I left Syria for Lebanon on September 10th. So I'm more than slightly behind. Now, as it happens, I'm in Jerusalem. Anyway, for good or ill I decided to go slowly and be detailed and thorough and concentrate on some facinating conversations I have had, even if a lighter, more nimble approach might have been preferable to some or all of my readers - whoever you are.
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Outsidetime: Morality and a Fine View
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Saturday, September 29, 2007. Morality and a Fine View. Aaron and Ahmed took me up a hill to their house for tea and some great sunset views over their sacred land. The women in Lattakia are much less veiled. It was nice to get a smile out of their sister. Even though Ahmed had just said that nothing was worse than adultery, he revised his opinion, as I suspected he might, when I asked him about homosexuality. This now became the ultimately bad thing. What could I say? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Outsidetime: Hama in Noisy Motion
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Wednesday, October 3, 2007. Hama in Noisy Motion. My abiding memory of Hama is the creaking noise of the turning of the enormous wheels called. That are scattered in the centre of town. Because both wheel and axle are made of wood, nothing works as a lubricant to induce a graceful flow. So an unearthly groaning, suggestive of a wounded extra-terrestrial dinosaur, breaks out from their motion. I saw one man hopefully trying to throw water on one. Did this help? Finally, after twelve days in Syria I got on...
