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		<title>The eternity of forms</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Battling intense mood swings and depressive episodes is not easy &#8212; and it&#8217;s harder when we forget the little things that made us dream and look forward to a better tomorrow. Even worse, we tend to discard and leave behind the small habits that keep us connected to the &#8220;now&#8221; &#8212; which is the more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakinamamer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=506283&amp;post=876&amp;subd=pakinamamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Experimental Sketches</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Experimental Sketches, a set on Flickr. What remains of that old talent &#8212; I thought it had died. Turns out it&#8217;s alive, and it&#8217;s promising to heal me.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakinamamer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=506283&amp;post=879&amp;subd=pakinamamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cook chicken like a Bedouin &#8212; in the heart of the desert!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 11:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pakinamamer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Amr Bassiouny Along The Watchtower Guest Writer  This is a companion post to Amr&#8217;s account of his solo sand adventure where he unveils another side of him. Follow him via @AmrBassiouny This is a recipe I learned from one of the Bedouins of South Sinai, a kind fellow and a cook named Saleh. If you’re [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakinamamer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=506283&amp;post=849&amp;subd=pakinamamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One more solo adventure?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 11:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Amr Bassiouny Along the Watchtower Guest Writer Amr is a dear friend, a revolutionary (by night) and a traveller who believes in the Bedouin traditions, the power of vast deserts, and in talking to fire and the stars (even if he&#8217;s too macho to admit it). This is a post he has written several [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakinamamer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=506283&amp;post=842&amp;subd=pakinamamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Into the Petrified Forest (not the one in Hogwarts)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 04:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pakinamamer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Download the PDF version of this story with pictures here: The Petrified Forest &#8211; pdf In this city, sometimes I feel like I’m watching people through a giant fish tank, one that I’m trapped in. Through the glass, I can see their lips move but I can’t hear a word. Other times, I feel like a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakinamamer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=506283&amp;post=815&amp;subd=pakinamamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A meditation on time, the ‘great illusion’</title>
		<link>http://pakinamamer.wordpress.com/2010/12/28/a-meditation-on-time-the-%e2%80%98great-illusion%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 07:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pakinamamer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time is at its most beautiful when you’re spending it in the arms of your special person, or lying on your back, on the grass or sand, early in the evening watching the stars twinkle into being as you whisper sweet nothings into the ears of your loved one &#8212; your fingers interlocked. At those [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakinamamer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=506283&amp;post=802&amp;subd=pakinamamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apologies &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 03:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pakinamamer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; for falling off the grid recently. I have no excuse. But I must confess I have been turning more to writing letters to beings above and on the Earth, some of them dear friends, others are gods, and this has distracted me from the Watchtower (i.e. this blog). I promise to be less sporadic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakinamamer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=506283&amp;post=792&amp;subd=pakinamamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I turn my hourglass &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://pakinamamer.wordpress.com/2010/11/16/i-turn-my-hourglass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pakinamamer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; and lose myself in thought about the journeys we make. Journeys. Such a loaded word. As I read Eat, Pray, Love &#8211;a book which I was fiercely cynical of until I started leafing through and relating to the author Elizabeth Gilbert&#8211; I wondered about my own personal journey. During a ride back from a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakinamamer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=506283&amp;post=735&amp;subd=pakinamamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do girls forget love easily?</title>
		<link>http://pakinamamer.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/do-girls-forget-love-easily/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pakinamamer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At least three people I know got married or got into committed relationships less than six months of their break-up with ex-boyfriends. A friend seemed to find this surprising. I, on the other hand, think it&#8217;s natural since time in some relationships and their aftermath is an irrelevant element. Do girls forget easy? Do they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakinamamer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=506283&amp;post=732&amp;subd=pakinamamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why do we travel &#8211; The complete series</title>
		<link>http://pakinamamer.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/why-do-we-travel-the-complete-series/</link>
		<comments>http://pakinamamer.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/why-do-we-travel-the-complete-series/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pakinamamer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pakinamamer.wordpress.com/?p=723</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the help of a friend, I have suggested and conceptualized a travel series for Al-Masry Al-Youm&#8217;s English portal, where I&#8217;m currently travel editor, that explores the question of why people travel. Inspired by two similar articles in Salon.com and The Observer, the series was launched and every week a new writer spoke of what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakinamamer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=506283&amp;post=723&amp;subd=pakinamamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Creators. Destroyers. Two sides of the same coin.</title>
		<link>http://pakinamamer.wordpress.com/2010/09/26/creators-destroyers-two-sides-of-the-same-coin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 14:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pakinamamer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some people seem to be born natural motivators; they&#8217;re go-getters themselves, they&#8217;re full of life, and their imagination is always strong and ripe. They&#8217;re miracle-makers. They move the wheels. They&#8217;re lucky, and they often make things happen. They&#8217;re touched by magic, and everything they lay a finger on turns to gold. Paradoxically, these people carry [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakinamamer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=506283&amp;post=715&amp;subd=pakinamamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Love &#8212; and not just in Saudi Arabia</title>
		<link>http://pakinamamer.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/on-love-and-not-just-in-saudi-arabia/</link>
		<comments>http://pakinamamer.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/on-love-and-not-just-in-saudi-arabia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pakinamamer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a blogpost I began in July, did not publish and never revisited until this moment. Back then I was reading this Arabic book called Love in Saudi &#8212; a text that is both sexual and daring from Page 1. The most creative bit in the storytelling, for me, was how both the author [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakinamamer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=506283&amp;post=501&amp;subd=pakinamamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Travel Literature: A two-hour journey</title>
		<link>http://pakinamamer.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/travel-literature-a-two-hour-journey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 22:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pakinamamer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Warning: This blogpost makes blatant generalizations about travel writing, and spends an awful lot contemplating why death and travel have much in common. The thoughts may be incoherent at times, and conclusions are loose. There&#8217;s much recycled from emails to a particular unlucky friend, and the beginning and ending may not tie together. You see, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakinamamer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=506283&amp;post=663&amp;subd=pakinamamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why do I travel? To think</title>
		<link>http://pakinamamer.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/why-do-i-travel-to-think/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 17:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pakinamamer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pakinamamer.wordpress.com/?p=655</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This the curtain-raiser for a series that Al-Masry Al-Youm Travel, which I&#8217;m heading, has recently launched. With a new voice every week, writers offer their reflections on the reasons why people leave behind familiar settings, friends, and perhaps even family members and beloved pets, to explore new places, away from home. I jumped on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakinamamer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=506283&amp;post=655&amp;subd=pakinamamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Untraversed roads &amp; the trappings of a digital world</title>
		<link>http://pakinamamer.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/venting-is-a-town-i-live-there/</link>
		<comments>http://pakinamamer.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/venting-is-a-town-i-live-there/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pakinamamer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ahmed Mohamed Hassanein]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[desert]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Here at last I was plunging into the untraversed and the unknown. What lay ahead? It was not the possible dangers of the journey which made my nerves tingle and caused my spirits to mount with exhilaration &#8212; dangers are merely a part of the day&#8217;s work in the desert. It was the realization that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakinamamer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=506283&amp;post=631&amp;subd=pakinamamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>وظيفة خالية: محترف تحرش</title>
		<link>http://pakinamamer.wordpress.com/2010/07/29/%d9%88%d8%b8%d9%8a%d9%81%d8%a9-%d8%ae%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d9%85%d8%ad%d8%aa%d8%b1%d9%81-%d8%aa%d8%ad%d8%b1%d8%b4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pakinamamer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Overheard on the Radio&#8221; &#8211; Check this out: Amr El Beleidy (@beleidy) and I (@pakinamamer) came across this one. Amr, of course (THE GUY!) thought that every girl is finding it more and more difficult to get married these days, &#8220;and for a good reason&#8221; so this makes sense (the audacity). He said, and yes I&#8217;m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakinamamer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=506283&amp;post=616&amp;subd=pakinamamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Face your cat: Lessons from the animal world</title>
		<link>http://pakinamamer.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/face-your-cat-lessons-from-the-animal-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pakinamamer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What I noticed about my cat is that when she fears something or someone, she never gives them her back. When she&#8217;s afraid, she turns around to face exactly what scares her, always keeping her eyes on it with unwavering attention and vigilance. Sometimes in her watchfulness, you can see that she&#8217;s ready to pounce. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakinamamer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=506283&amp;post=602&amp;subd=pakinamamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hope Floats (it does, I promise!)</title>
		<link>http://pakinamamer.wordpress.com/2010/07/03/hope-floats-it-does-i-promise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 01:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because of all the freedom and the potential that it carries, because I&#8217;m still young and because I have big dreams, because everything is changing, I think I&#8217;m safe to say: this is the best time of my life. Listening to: nothing Mood: indescribable Wants from the Universe: More pink &#38; white fluffy thoughts (for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakinamamer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=506283&amp;post=598&amp;subd=pakinamamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Aviators</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 01:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since sleep hasn&#8217;t come yet and it&#8217;s almost 3:30 am (I have to be up by 9:00!!), I decided to pay a tribute to some of my favourite men: all aviators, all a bit cuckoo in the head with an affinity for suffering, open air, impressing people and breaking the hearts of those they love. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakinamamer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=506283&amp;post=567&amp;subd=pakinamamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are some people addicted to suffering?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pakinamamer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Sovereign of my heart, Regina, kept safe and secret in the deepest corner of my breast.&#8221; I&#8217;m big on psychology theorists these days, and while searching for e-books for Rollo Reese May (since I failed to find any hardcopies in our distinguished book-stores across Cairo), I came across works by Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher, psychologist and theologian. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakinamamer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=506283&amp;post=544&amp;subd=pakinamamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Protected: Letter # 7</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Closet Existentialism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 01:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday I had a wedding. Don&#8217;t like them. They&#8217;re noisy, packed, impersonal, pretentious and showy. And watching the sweat-drenched attendees wriggle and dance themselves dizzy, all the questions of &#8220;Why are we here? Who made the world?&#8221; come rushing into my head. It&#8217;s safe to say I haven&#8217;t attended a wedding that I liked in years. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakinamamer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=506283&amp;post=524&amp;subd=pakinamamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Light games</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the third acting workshop this week, light was the star. We&#8217;d moved to a theater in downtown for our training, which is the venue we&#8217;ll using from now on. The blackbox we used yesterday is definitely much more equipped and spacious than the studio in Mohandiseen. I&#8217;d been moved to a new group, mostly all younger [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakinamamer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=506283&amp;post=503&amp;subd=pakinamamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The memory of the intellect &amp; the eyes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Voluntary memory, the memory of the intellect and the eyes, [gives] us only imprecise facsimiles of the past which no more resemble it than pictures by bad painters resemble the spring &#8230; So we don&#8217;t believe that life is beautiful because we don&#8217;t recall it, but if we get a whiff of a long-forgotten smell [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pakinamamer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=506283&amp;post=499&amp;subd=pakinamamer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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