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		<title>Syrian writer wins Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Syrian writer Khalil Sweileh received this year’s Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature for his novel “Warrak Al-Hub” (The Scribe of Love) in an awards ceremony at the American University in Cairo in the presence of the jury, AUC Press President Mark Linz, the AUC Provost and an audience of journalists, writers and artists.
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		<title>Virtual Museum of Iraq Website to be launched in early 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[The Virtual Iraq Museum has been initiated with the cooperation of Google and YouTube, consisting of 14,000 photos with text in Arabic, English, and French. It will be officially inaugurated in early 2010.]
http://www.virtualmuseumiraq.cnr.it/homeENG.htm
تم افتتاح موقع متحف العراق الوطني السمعي المرئي
هذا مشروع ضخم تم اطلاقه بالتعاون مع شركة قوقل واليوتيوب لانشاء موقع الكتروني كامل تستطيع زيارة [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digitization of early Christian MSS in Middle Eastern monasteries</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read entire article here.
A Benedictine monk, the Rev. Columba Stewart of St. John&#8217;s Abbey and University (College­ville, Minn.)&#8211;executive director of the abbey&#8217;s Hill Museum &#38; Manuscript Library, and a historian of the early monastic period&#8211;leads the museum&#8217;s ambitious and longstanding effort to find and digitize manuscripts held in monastic communities in the Middle East, Europe, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lalami on Moroccan bookstores and Caldwell&#8217;s &#8220;Reflections on the Revolution in Europe&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leila Lalami writes about one of her favorite bookstores in Rabat, with a nice photo of what real bookstores used to look like &#8211; and some still do:  http://lailalalami.com/2009/support-your-bookstore/
Also check out Lalami&#8217;s timely review of Christopher Caldwell&#8217;s book Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West, in the Dec. 14, 2009, issue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Archaeologists publish first map of contested sites in Middle East</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A team of archaeologists from UCLA, USC, Israel and Palestinian territories has developed the first map detailing Israeli archaeological activity in the West Bank and Jerusalem – much of it never publicly disclosed.]]></description>
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