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    <body><![CDATA[Read this in a class that changed my life.....REPRESENTATIONS OF THE MIDDLE EAST&gt;...here I met Edward Said, along with Assia Djebar...film maker and writer....hmmm....so much to say about this...but a woman's love is amazing....]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A young woman returns from Paris to a traditional home somewhere in the middle east.  She negotiates her multiple selves and lives.  <br/><br/>Made me think. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Poetry in the disguise of prose.]]></body>
    
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