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		<title>Amnesty International: NATO, &#8220;Keep The Progress Going&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://frustratedarab.com/2012/05/27/amnesty-international-nato-keep-the-progress-going/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 03:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roqayah Chamseddine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amnesty International, the most renowned non-governmental organisation focused on human rights, has had what seems to be its latest advertisement campaign, on behalf of Afghan women, circulated, widely, and immense and much deserved controversy has accompanied it. &#8220;NATO: Keep The Progress Going!&#8221; reads the outdoor poster, announcing Amnesty International&#8217;s &#8216;shadow summit for Afghan women&#8216;; this blatantly colonial feminist message [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=frustratedarab.com&#038;blog=13764092&#038;post=2175&#038;subd=thecynicalarab&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NATO-Free Summit And Rally Make Light Of Obama Crimes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 00:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roqayah Chamseddine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent nearly one week in Chicago as an attendee of the NATO-Free World Counter-Summit for Peace &#38; Economic Justice and as a protester in the anti-NATO rally which engulfed much of the local and national media, at least in brevity, and I must say that I was thoroughly exasperated with both the summit and rally [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=frustratedarab.com&#038;blog=13764092&#038;post=2171&#038;subd=thecynicalarab&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pain-Relief</title>
		<link>http://frustratedarab.com/2012/05/16/pain-relief/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 14:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roqayah Chamseddine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The smell of Bengay is an aroma that drowns out the entire house; it is a perpetual reminder of open-ended efforts to subdue deep-penetrating pain, to quiet an ache that has not subdued. The unmistakable smell of menthol greets me in the morning time &#8211; a signal of sorts, that my father must be awake, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=frustratedarab.com&#038;blog=13764092&#038;post=2166&#038;subd=thecynicalarab&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Catastrophe</title>
		<link>http://frustratedarab.com/2012/05/15/the-catastrophe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roqayah Chamseddine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Occupation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If these battered walls and buildings had the means to speak, would they crumble beneath our feet and mourn those once buried amongst the concrete and the soot? Would they grieve their bent steel and blackened architecture? Would there be stories behind each bullet embedded in even the smallest of fractures? What would we be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=frustratedarab.com&#038;blog=13764092&#038;post=922&#038;subd=thecynicalarab&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Children Of Iraq: Devastation Untold</title>
		<link>http://frustratedarab.com/2012/05/11/the-children-of-iraq-devastation-untold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 02:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roqayah Chamseddine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“…Line up the bodies of the children, the thousands of children — the infants, the toddlers, the schoolkids — whose bodies were torn to pieces, burned alive or riddled with bullets during the American invasion and occupation of Iraq. Line them up in the desert sand, walk past them, mile after mile, all those twisted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=frustratedarab.com&#038;blog=13764092&#038;post=2155&#038;subd=thecynicalarab&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Haze Of War: A Lebanese Story</title>
		<link>http://frustratedarab.com/2012/05/09/a-lebanese-story-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 18:08:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roqayah Chamseddine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cynicism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My mother and her brother, Ali, went to see relatives in Southern Lebanon during a casual visit &#8211; it was a Friday in the 1980&#8242;s and it was the first time she was there on a weekday; as per her usual routine she typically visited relatives in South Lebanon on the weekends. My mother&#8217;s cousin, and my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=frustratedarab.com&#038;blog=13764092&#038;post=2145&#038;subd=thecynicalarab&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On The Hatred Of Women and The Love Of Power</title>
		<link>http://frustratedarab.com/2012/05/02/on-the-hatred-of-women-and-the-love-of-power/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 20:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roqayah Chamseddine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cynicism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was invited to be a guest on Al Jazeera&#8217;s segment know as &#8220;The Stream&#8221; in order to discuss the debate surrounding Mona Eltahawy&#8217;s latest piece on Foreign Policy, &#8216;Why Do They Hate Us&#8217;; unfortunately I was unable to actually get a chance to speak due to Eltahawy defending her piece quite verbosely. Though I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=frustratedarab.com&#038;blog=13764092&#038;post=2134&#038;subd=thecynicalarab&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Us and Them: On Helpless Women and Orientalist Imagery</title>
		<link>http://frustratedarab.com/2012/04/24/us-and-them/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roqayah Chamseddine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cynicism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The web is abuzz with talk of Mona Eltahawy&#8217;s latest entry, which made its way onto the front cover of Foreign Policy, &#8216;Why Do They Hate Us&#8216;, the &#8220;war on the women in the Middle East&#8221;; reactions vary from unwavering support to venom-laced condemnation, and a multitude of other postures in between.  In the latest Foreign Policy feature, a part [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=frustratedarab.com&#038;blog=13764092&#038;post=2111&#038;subd=thecynicalarab&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Action: Tell IHOP Discrimination Is Unacceptable</title>
		<link>http://frustratedarab.com/2012/04/23/action-tell-ihop-discrimination-is-unacceptable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roqayah Chamseddine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IHOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For all those aware, and those unaware, of the case against @IHOP involving my father I have decided to create a ready-to-send email, for those in agreement with its content. If you are unaware with the case in question the article I have written may be found here: http://frustratedarab.com/2012/04/21/when-discrimination-hits-home/ The email should be addressed to the following: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=frustratedarab.com&#038;blog=13764092&#038;post=2107&#038;subd=thecynicalarab&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When Discrimination Hits Home</title>
		<link>http://frustratedarab.com/2012/04/21/when-discrimination-hits-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 20:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roqayah Chamseddine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have long written of discrimination, abuse and xenophobia as suffered by others; from Blacks in Libya to Muslims in the United States of America. But nothing could prepare me for this piece, one which will attempt to humbly relay what little information I am permitted to discuss, covering a lawsuit against the restaurant chain known [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=frustratedarab.com&#038;blog=13764092&#038;post=2096&#038;subd=thecynicalarab&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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