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		<title>Social media in the Middle East: is it a real tool for (incremental) change, or merely cathartic self-expression?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social media in the Middle East: is it real tool for (incremental) change, or merely cathartic self-expression? A comment on Rami G. Khouri's "When Arabs Tweet"]]></description>
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		<title>What can social media tell you about the mainstream social discourse in Egypt?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 18:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[	While I was working on my masters in International Development, I wrote a paper on how we can use social media to observe current social discourses on various themes, or what I specifically termed &#8220;grassroots developmental ethos&#8221;. In non-academic jargon, I was trying to see if it is possible to use social media to learn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inexplicable phenomenon? Jordanians lose their passports in Cairo…a lot!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hani</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cairo]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hanimorsi.com/blog/?p=348</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	At least that&#8217;s what I have deduced after looking at the lost &#038; found section in the Egyptian weekly classifieds paper, Al-Waseet.

	

	The first scan is from Al-Waseet&#8217;s July 7th issue, the other is from its July 23rd issue (I added the red arrows). I didn&#8217;t get any other issues between those two, but didn&#8217;t need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why so sad?</title>
		<link>http://www.hanimorsi.com/blog/index.php/archives/2010/05/10/why-so-sad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 11:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hani</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
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	Am I imagining things or have almost everyone I have seen or met recently fallen into a dark pit of misanthropy and self-loathing?

	You should smile more often or your facial muscles will freeze in that sulk forever (something that is yet to be medically proven, but it happens). That would not be a good thing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It’s all too much: The war on the unneccessary and reclaiming my attention span</title>
		<link>http://www.hanimorsi.com/blog/index.php/archives/2010/03/30/it-is-all-too-much/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hani</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[choice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	This morning, while in my car moving at snail&#8217;s pace in Cairo traffic, I realized that sometimes the lack of options is good thing. My inner monologue went something like this:
&#8220;Should I listen to the playlist I spent an hour selecting songs for on my iPod, or the podcasts I downloaded to my iPhone? It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We never really grow up. We just learn how to act in public: the story of my unhealthy obsession with bikes</title>
		<link>http://www.hanimorsi.com/blog/index.php/archives/2010/03/28/we-never-really-grow-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hani</dc:creator>
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	The above picture is of my new toy, which I&#8217;ll tell you more about later, after I tell you how this whole cycling thing got into my head.

	You may or may not already know that I have a not so mild fascination with two-wheeled pedal powered machines (aka bicycles), specifically mountain bikes.&#160; Like many other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Developmental alchemy: Why modern development thought should shed its (obsolete) legacies</title>
		<link>http://www.hanimorsi.com/blog/index.php/archives/2010/03/24/developmental-alchemy-why-modern-development-thought-should-shed-its-obsolete-legacies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hani</dc:creator>
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Image source
The ancient alchemists sought means by which common metals could be turned into precious ones. They drew upon the primordial forms of modern chemistry, devised ingenious but questionable apparatuses, and used some magic. No evidence exists, however, of anyone succeeding in transforming (significant quantities of) lead into gold with the application of such methods.

	Development [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grassroots movements and the self-imposed tyranny of collective apathy: Part I</title>
		<link>http://www.hanimorsi.com/blog/index.php/archives/2010/03/23/grassroots-movements-and-the-self-imposed-tyranny-of-collective-apathy-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hani</dc:creator>
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	How many times did you hear someone talk or read what someone wrote about the need for &#8220;tangible, positive change&#8221;, or something along those lines?

	I am not talking about &#8220;radical&#8221; or &#8220;revolutionary&#8221; change. I don&#8217;t mean the type of change that we read about in history books, attributed to gifted visionaries or charismatic leaders, often [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I am 28</title>
		<link>http://www.hanimorsi.com/blog/index.php/archives/2010/02/22/i-am-28/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hani</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ego]]></category>
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	...and I have nothing to note to mark the occasion.

	Older, yet not wiser.
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		<title>I am going to miss (grad) school</title>
		<link>http://www.hanimorsi.com/blog/index.php/archives/2010/02/11/i-am-going-to-miss-grad-school/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hanimorsi.com/blog/index.php/archives/2010/02/11/i-am-going-to-miss-grad-school/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hani</dc:creator>
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I like being at at school. Maybe I&#8217;ll go back someday.

	Click the picture of yours truly in the funny costume above to see a few more from my graduate commencement.

	P.S. To the dimwits who kept chanting &#8220;MBA, MBA!&#8221; near the end of the ceremony: Seriously guys, that was retarded.
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