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		<title>Social media in the Middle East: is it a real tool for (incremental) change, or merely cathartic self-expression?</title>
		<link>http://www.hanimorsi.com/blog/index.php/archives/2010/08/02/social_media_in_the_middle_east/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social media in the Middle East: is it real tool for (incremental) change, or merely cathartic self-expression? A comment on Rami G. Khouri's "When Arabs Tweet"]]></description>
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		<title>What can social media tell you about the mainstream social discourse in Egypt?</title>
		<link>http://www.hanimorsi.com/blog/index.php/archives/2010/08/01/what-can-social-media-tell-you-about-the-mainstream-social-discourse-in-egypt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 18:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[	While I was working on my masters in International Development, I wrote a paper on how we can use social media to observe current social discourses on various themes, or what I specifically termed &#8220;grassroots developmental ethos&#8221;. In non-academic jargon, I was trying to see if it is possible to use social media to learn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If you only read one book this year&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.hanimorsi.com/blog/index.php/archives/2009/10/15/if-you-only-read-one-book-this-year/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hanimorsi.com/blog/index.php/archives/2009/10/15/if-you-only-read-one-book-this-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[	...and provided that you can read and understand colloquial Egyptian Arabic (the Upper-Egyptian dialect, to be more specific), you really should read Gawabat Haragy El Kot (The Letters of Haragy EL Kot) by Abdel-Rahman El-Abnoudy.

Take masterful story-telling, super-lucid usage of colloquial language, seldom-matched literary prowess and soak all of that way deep in the cultural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Cairo, Cairenes and broken windows</title>
		<link>http://www.hanimorsi.com/blog/index.php/archives/2009/06/25/on-cairo-cairenes-and-broken-windows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hani</dc:creator>
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	Source 

	Cairo is a truly fascinating city.

	It is an immense jumble of everything: people, vehicles, concrete, animals, junk. If you are a first-time visitor, not familiar with how things go in Cairo, the city mercilessly attacks your senses and overwhelms you. Cairo shocks you. If you recover from the initial sensory whack, &#160;chances are that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY random missive 02: Talking shows</title>
		<link>http://www.hanimorsi.com/blog/index.php/archives/2008/10/31/ny-random-missive-02-talking-shows/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hanimorsi.com/blog/index.php/archives/2008/10/31/ny-random-missive-02-talking-shows/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[	So recently I went to a couple Broadway shows and a spoken word show. Here&#8217;s the skinny:
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Great show! It&#8217;s about this hip New York teenager who moves to Appleton, Indiana due to his parents&#8217; divorce and the interactions he has with his peers in high school. Nothing deep in terms of plot, but flawless performance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Media, Closed Minds</title>
		<link>http://www.hanimorsi.com/blog/index.php/archives/2007/10/15/open-media-closed-minds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hani</dc:creator>
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	The Wikimedia Foundation has recently decided upon Alexandria, Egypt as a host city for its upcoming international conference in 2008. Alexandria was one of the finalists voted by Wikimedia&#8217;s jury. A friend directed my attention to this blogpost, where the author has lunched an all out attack against holding the conference in Alex. I posted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Description de l&#8217;Egypte now online</title>
		<link>http://www.hanimorsi.com/blog/index.php/archives/2007/04/16/description-de-legypte-now-online/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hani</dc:creator>
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Description de l&#8217;Egypte, which is a set of volumes containing an exhaustive description of ancient and modern Egypt (modern at the time of authoring, that is) that was prepared by scientists accompanying Napoleon&#8217;s expedition to Egypt in 1798, is now available in an online version, courtesy of Bibliotheca Alexandrina and The International School of Information [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Belly dancing duel</title>
		<link>http://www.hanimorsi.com/blog/index.php/archives/2007/04/06/belly-dancing-duel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hani</dc:creator>
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	Ok, so the guy is &#8220;technically&#8221; better, but who wants to watch a guy belly dance? Not me.
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		<title>We need a few of those around Cairo&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.hanimorsi.com/blog/index.php/archives/2007/03/07/we-need-a-few-of-those-around-cairo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hani</dc:creator>
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	People who &#8220;random through the street&#8221; are definitely a nuisance in Cairo.

	via Gridskipper 
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		<title>The Tao of Egyptian streets</title>
		<link>http://www.hanimorsi.com/blog/index.php/archives/2006/03/13/the-tao-of-egyptian-streets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2006 18:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[	I have posted before about the mind-boggling beauty of man-machine coexistence on the streets of Cairo. Here is another example of such fantastic equilibrium, this time in Egypt&#8217;s second largest city.

	

	This is a picture of a one lane street in a local market area in Alexandria. Tram tracks go down the middle of the street, [...]]]></description>
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