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Qatar National Day (Week) Schedules!
Found this in today’s Peninsula. Could not find a copy online, nor on the official website, so pardon the poor quality of the photograph of the schedule directly from today’s Peninsula:… more →
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Qatar National Day (Week) Schedules!
intlxpatr wrote 2 weeks ago: Found this in today’s Peninsula. Could not find a copy online, nor on the official website, so … more →
Qatar National Day Events to be Broadcast Live
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intlxpatr wrote 2 weeks ago: According to today’s Gulf Times Qatar National Day Events will be carried live on television, … more →
Pomegranate Soup by Marsha Mehran
intlxpatr wrote 2 months ago: I saw a mention of this book in an Amazon.com referral as a book I might like, and was almost set to … more →
Translations from Behind Doors
metilton wrote 5 months ago: Voice is everything, Reader. If you like the poems I’ve written, it’s probably because y … more →
What did Ezekiel See?
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intlxpatr wrote 7 months ago: How would our flea-bitten, superstitious ancestors in Europe of the 1100’s describe a car, if … more →
Last Chance Harvey
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smilingldsgirl wrote 7 months ago: If any of you haven’t seen Last Chance Harvey- see it. It’s great. Wonderful. Dustin Hof … more →
More Poetry
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smilingldsgirl wrote 7 months ago: I haven’t done a poetry blog in some time, so here goes. I was thinking yesterday of memories … more →
The Thirteenth Tale - Setterfield
intlxpatr wrote 8 months ago: After reading some heavier stuff, I needed a break, and waiting on my “read me!” bookshe … more →
Book Club
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smilingldsgirl wrote 8 months ago: So today I went to my book club and had a fantastic experience. We were reading the Invisible Man b … more →
Quote from The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
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intlxpatr wrote 8 months ago: “People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Thei … more →
Neil Gaiman's Smoke and Mirrors
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intlxpatr wrote 8 months ago: Smoke and Mirrors is a collection of – as the author puts it – short fiction and illusio … more →
A Heap of Inertia
metilton wrote 8 months ago: Reader, all is well. I’ve just been a little bit tired of posting here every single day. And I … more →
William Dalrymple: The Age of Kali
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intlxpatr wrote 8 months ago: Having read and loved In Xanadu: A Quest by William Dalrymple, and having received recommendations b … more →
Feast Day of John Donne
intlxpatr wrote 9 months ago: In church, on Friday, the speaker was discussing Lenten practices, and told us of a woman who seriou … more →
Ghostly Sunrise
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intlxpatr wrote 9 months ago: One minute I looked and there was nothing, the next, this faint outline of the rising sun. It doesn … more →
Bowling Alone and the Great Good Place
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smilingldsgirl wrote 9 months ago: In my last post I mentioned how inspired I felt by Glenn Beck’s new 9/12 initiative. Normally … more →
Eliot Pattison: Beautiful Ghosts
intlxpatr wrote 10 months ago: It almost always takes me a little while to get into Eliot Pattison’s books, and I can figure … more →
Why I love Elizabeth Gaskell
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smilingldsgirl wrote 10 months ago: For all of you who do not know, Elizabeth Gaskell was a novelist in the 1850’s at the same tim … more →
The Great Kuwait National Holiday Challenge
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intlxpatr wrote 10 months ago: We have a wonderful week coming up – Liberation Day and Kuwait Independence Day, back to back. … more →
