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		<title>Walter Hamady</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 04:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walter Hamady, an extraordinary artist of the world of paper making, book design, and bookbinding. He is a poet, teacher, collaborator, and innovator. No other artist has done more to influence the world of contemporary handmade books than Walter Hamady. Born in Flint, Michigan in 1940, Hamady studied art in Detroit, then Cranbrook Academy of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Naomi Shihab Nye</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Naomi Shihab Nye (born March 12, 1952) is a poet, songwriter, and novelist. She was born to a Palestinian father and American mother. Her first collection of poems, Different Ways to Pray, explored the theme of similarities and differences between cultures, which would become one of her lifelong areas of focus. Her other books include [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loubna Haikal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Loubna Haikal is a Lebanese born Australian doctor and writer from Aktanit, Zahrani. She migrated to Australia with her parents in 1969. She has written for the theatre; &#8216;Near Saida&#8217;, a Folkloric Ballet, commissioned by the Melbourne Arts festival, and &#8216;Points of Exit&#8217;, a play in two acts, about power and political compromise. Her other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nathalie Handal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nathalie Handal is a poet, playwright, and writer. She has lived in Europe, the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Arab world. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, such as, Poetrywales, Ploughshares, Poetry New Zealand, Stand Magazine, Crab Orchard Review, Perihelion, and The Literary Review; has been translated into more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amin Maalouf</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Lebanese author who wrote in French, and his works have been translated into many languages. He received the Prix Goncourt in 1993 for his novel Rock of Tanios. Maalouf&#8217;s novels are marked by his experiences of civil war and migration. Their characters are itinerant voyagers between lands, languages, and religions. Amin Maalouf website]]></description>
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		<title>Edward Said</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The late Edward Said, born in Jerusalem of Christian Palestinian descent, was a Columbia professor and well-known literary and social critic, as well as a respected music reviewer, and wrote a column appearing in &#8220;The Nation.&#8221; Professor Said authored more than a dozen volumes on everything from the Middle East to English literature. Said earned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yusuf Ibish</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ibish was a distinguished scholar whose interests spanned both pre- modern and modern Islamic culture and societies. His particular field of specialisation was pre-modern Islamic political thought, but his interests and expertise ranged far. His professional life was spent teaching, at the American University in Beirut, Cambridge and Amherst. He leaves a legacy of some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Naimeh</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Naimeh is a world renowned Lebanese writer. He completed his law studies at the University of Washington in 1916 and returned to Lebanon in the early thirties where he wrote many literary works in Arabic in his beautiful hometown of Baskinta in the mountains of Lebanon. Among his best known books is the Book [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Naguib Mahfouz</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Naguib Mahfouz was an Egyptian novelist who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature, along with Tawfiq el-Hakim, to explore themes of existentialism.]]></description>
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		<title>Ameen Rihani</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ameen Rihani&#8217;s interest in knowledge and literature was kindled at an early age. He began writing in English, becoming, according to Lebanese historian Samir Kassir, &#8220;the first Arab to publish in English without at the same time renouncing his own language.&#8221; His literary work was part of a flourishing movement of Arab writers in North [...]]]></description>
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