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Peter Sunde of The Pirate Bay is my hero.

I’ve been following Italy’s somewhat fascist attempts to block The Pirate Bay and today, wrote a blog post on the subject for the OpenNet blog.  Before adding the company’s logo to my post, I sent a quick query via the website to confirm that it was permissible to use it.  Peter Sunde, co-founder of The [...]

27.08.2008

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Morocco’s Second Medal!

Hooray!  36-year-old Moroccan Jaouad Gharib just became the second Moroccan to win a medal at this year’s Olympic Games (Hasna Benhassi was the first, with a bronze in the women’s 800m).  Gharib, from Khenifra, didn’t start running until he was 22 and is known for constantly fiddling with his shirt, tucking and untucking it, during [...]

23.08.2008

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Homeless but happy

Yesterday – August 19 – marks three years since I arrived in Meknes to live.  I remember the anxiety I felt as I got on the airplane, and the sense of being so lost in the world the first few days I was there. I arrived at the airport in Casa and was picked up [...]

20.08.2008

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For your perusal…

Some links to keep you busy: A Protestor’s Guide to the Democratic National Convention What does the rest of the world think about U.S. elections?  Voices without Votes knows. Saudi girls deserve sports heroes, too; my latest blogging venture. WeOp-Ed: Participatory media at its finest (idea-wise, that is). And in the totally random category (well, [...]

18.08.2008

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Giant poo escapes!

Artist Paul McCarthy (no, not McCartney) created a giant poo sculpture in a garden in Switzerland.  The giant turd, described as “house-sized,” apparently escaped on July 31, wreaking havoc along its path.  It even broke a window in an orphanage (poor kids!) Museum officials haven’t decided whether or not to return the sculpture to its [...]

15.08.2008

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Texas says teachers can carry guns to school

A North Texas school district has just ruled that teachers may carry concealed weapons: “When the federal government started making schools gun-free zones, that’s when all of these shootings started. Why would you put it out there that a group of people can’t defend themselves? That’s like saying ‘sic ‘em’ to a dog,” Thweatt said [...]

15.08.2008

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Goodbye

From IHT: Mahmoud Darwish, the world’s most recognized Palestinian poet, whose prose gave voice to the Palestinian experience of exile, occupation and infighting, died on Saturday in Houston, Texas. Darwish was my introduction to Palestine.  I can imagine that’s true for a lot of people like myself who, as students, fell in love with either [...]

09.08.2008

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The Way the World Sees Africa…

more graph humor and song chart memes *I would probably add lemurs to Madagascar and the Marrakesh Express to Morocco, but otherwise probably pretty accurate, huh?

06.08.2008

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NYC

New York. I’ve been longing to live there since before I’d ever really been, and especially since college (which I attended in upstate New York and thus traveled to the city quite often). But as I mentioned to friends over brunch Sunday, I know that if I ever move there, I’ll never leave, and so [...]

04.08.2008

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