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Meet the new Middle East..
A colleague of mine was telling me over lunch yesterday about this book called “Muhajababes“. The title is just screaming for me to read it. She said she went to Virgin when she first got here (last summer) and asked for the book but the guy said: “Shh! We don’t sell that book here.” With [...]
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Samira & Samir
I smell your desire, says Daria. But is your blood not becoming bitter, is it not boiling and rising to your head? Is it not giving you pain, making you ill at the thought of the shame and disgrace that might have fallen upon you?
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What disgrace? asks the commander.
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You, the great warrior and fighter [...]
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All men cheat..
..it’s the stupid ones that get caught.“
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Quoted by a family friend (bil 3arabi), a lady in her mid-forties, at our usual Wednesday gathering fee bait yaditi. Wat’s sad is that I really believe it’s true. I know that this may seem like a generalization to some, but I strongly believe that about 85% of all [...]
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