February 2012
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tanlines - all of me
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National Team Helps Bring Lebanon Together
The last victory was Lebanon’s surprising 2-1 win over South Korea in November during qualification for the 2014 World Cup. Despite being the lowest ranked team in Asia at the start of qualification, and despite facing sectarian tensions that all but destroyed the sport here, Lebanon needs only a tie Wednesday in Abu Dhabi against the United Arab Emirates to reach the final round of World Cup...
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“The problem in America is that you’re thinking when you receive the ball. You need to think before you receive the ball.”
this.
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“About whether to risk going in — or going back in — there is no consensus....”
– Conflict Reporting in the Post-Embed Era - NY Times (via goldman)
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"Graffiti convey stories of Egypt revolution" →
uprisingsintranslation:
Al-Jazeera English video about the murals on Mohammed Mahmoud Street in downtown Cairo.
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Citizen journalist Bladimir Sánchez has already received threats for making a video showing the forced evictions of farmers and fishermen protesting the construction of a hydroelectric dam in the department of Huila, Colombia on February 14 and 15. In less than three days, more than 600,000 people have watched it.
On Publimetro [es], Camilo Andrés García Cortés states that the video may be...
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Many Syrians, including dissidents, have opposed the nearly one-year popular uprising not because they support al-Assad, who has been accused by the UN high commissioner for human rights of possible crimes against humanity in the crackdown on protesters, but because they fear for the future of their country without him.
As the international community increasingly turns against al-Assad,...
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“The karmic load of killing one rabbit and one yak are the same: one life,” he said. “But you can feed a lot more people with a yak.”
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I do not want to write about Nicholas Kristof. The sheer banality of his representations of Africa paralyzes me. His columns and blogs about Africa in the New York Times are repeatedly under fire for their poor research, careless reading of studies on Africa, and blatant generalizations. This allows him to repeat troubling and problematic tropes about Africa and about how Africans need foreign...
“there is an inner wakefulness, that directs the dream. without knowing the...”
– rumi
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Some suffering cannot be covered in words...This...
paxmachina:
Anthony Shadid - House of Stone (Out in March)
(September 26, 1968 – February 16, 2012)
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The United States has less than 5 percent of the... →
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“الثورات يدبرها الدهاة و ينفذها الشجعان ثم يكسبها الجبناء
Revolutions are...”
– Naguib Mahfouz (via egyptiansoapbox)
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– The password Syrian President Bashar Assad apparently had for some of his email accounts, which were hacked by Anonymous. (via arabstateofmind)
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