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salads | tomatoes 'n' blue cheese
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Tomatoes 'n' blue cheese. Cats out the cradle. The real ruins of jerash. In memoriam: khala hala. Playing cops and robbers. Give me out or give me in. Go down, moses. Let jerusalem be jerusalem again. A land without a people. David and Ali in Jordan. Other Fully Bright Friends. Ali in the World. Alissa in South Africa. Gibbs the Cupcake Villain. My Nametwin the Photographer. The Art of Reading. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com.
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my jargon | tomatoes 'n' blue cheese
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Tomatoes 'n' blue cheese. Sprinkled throughout my posts will be cryptic signals. Much as I might like to think myself privy to a cult culture, these are not codes for a secret tomato society or anything. (But, then again, can you take my word for it? Here’s the breakdown:. AA alhamdulillah thank God (give credit where credit is due). IA insha’Allah God willing (I don’t command the future; He does). MA masha’Allah wow (or, literally, whatever God wills). SA subhanAllah glory be to God ( synonymous with mA).
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the rain fall | tomatoes 'n' blue cheese
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Tomatoes 'n' blue cheese. On March 1, 2010. The man held up two fingers, one for each of his wives. Next, he held the tip of his index finger and shook it. 8220;She’s paralyzed, the waist down, can’t move. Go, bring your mother,” he instructed one of the children. They didn’t believe us, I don’t think, for they kept asking if we’d taken their names down and if the help would know their address when it arrived. Pheasants and chickens, also eager to avoid the rain, shared the small canopy with us. With...
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star-crescented love | tomatoes 'n' blue cheese
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Tomatoes 'n' blue cheese. On March 14, 2010. It was Valentine’s Day and I, of course, was at UJ, going door to door in pursuit of happiness and, more immediately, a college email address. As I climbed the millionth stair, I saw a girl there, on the floor up above. Our eyes met. We smiled. I doubt it was love. I asked her a question. She didn’t know. Was I not from here? And I thought, does it show? America, I said to unwonted applause. She gasped, clapped, laughed without pause. And how did you meet?
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disclaimer | tomatoes 'n' blue cheese
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Tomatoes 'n' blue cheese. This blog (tnbc.wordpress.com) is not an official Fulbright Program site. The views expressed on this site are entirely mine and do not represent the views of the Fulbright Program, the U.S. Department of State or any of its partner organizations. The real ruins of jerash. In memoriam: khala hala. Playing cops and robbers. Give me out or give me in. Go down, moses. Let jerusalem be jerusalem again. A land without a people. David and Ali in Jordan. Other Fully Bright Friends.
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2010 | tomatoes 'n' blue cheese
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Tomatoes 'n' blue cheese. Archive for 2010 Yearly archive page. On March 14, 2010. It was Valentine’s Day and I, of course, was at UJ, going door to door in pursuit of happiness and, more immediately, a college email address. As I climbed the millionth stair, I saw a girl there, on the floor up above. Our eyes met. We smiled. I doubt it was love. I asked her a question. She didn’t know. Was I not from here? And I thought, does it show? Hijabis with boyfriends — well that’s something new. I wanted to know...
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who art thou? | tomatoes 'n' blue cheese
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Tomatoes 'n' blue cheese. Who am I, you ask? Well, I am some combination of Muslim, Arab and American — usually the wrong combination at the wrong airport, at the wrong time in world history. A case in point:. Gents, save it for the Arab League.). Apart from airports, however, my identity is more or less outside the line of fire, which is more than a lot of other minority peeps can say. 9654; No Responses. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Email (Address never made public). David and A...
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why tnbc | tomatoes 'n' blue cheese
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Tomatoes 'n' blue cheese. Ah Tomatoes ‘n’ blue cheese. What’s not to love about tomatoes? And what’s not to hate about blue cheese? When I was a child, my parents nicknamed me tomatoes (or the Arabic equivalent of that,. Because I devoured the identity-ambiguous fruit/vegetable with religious zeal. Why the tomatoes n’ blue cheese, you ask? Because I’m (occasionally) a patriotic, flag-waving citizen of the US of A. (Get it: red, white and blue? Tomatoes ‘n’ blue cheese? Oh, forget it.) For me, tomatoe...
