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		<title>Shlomo Sand: &#8220;I am not a Jew. I am an Israeli.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bestselling Israeli historian Shlomo Sand on identity politics, political despair, why Lieberman is right... and drowning sorrows with Mahmoud Darwish.]]></description>
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		<title>Can Hizbullah reinvent itself?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Hizbullah sides with its brutal backers in Damascus, are the Shi'ite movement's days numbered or can it regain its popularity and credibility?]]></description>
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		<title>Peace in New Canaan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KhaledDiab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Israeli-Palestinian peace talks fail again, it is time to build a New Canaan of diversity, tolerance and peace based on reimagined identities.]]></description>
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		<title>Secular Egypt: dream or delusion?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KhaledDiab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Egypt on the road to theocracy or will it manage to build a secular, pluralist democracy?]]></description>
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		<title>Islamist-driven democracy is not a snowball in hell</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KhaledDiab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Islamists are not all Osama bin Laden and secularists are not all Atatürk . They can work together to achieve democracy.

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		<title>A drinker&#8217;s guide to Islam</title>
		<link>http://chronikler.com/reflections/belief/drinkers-guide-to-islam/</link>
		<comments>http://chronikler.com/reflections/belief/drinkers-guide-to-islam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KhaledDiab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although alcohol is 'haraam', Muslim societies have rarely managed to stay on the wagon, and vital parts of their culture have developed under the influence.]]></description>
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		<title>9/12: Turning over a new leaf in the Middle East</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KhaledDiab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the 10th anniversary of the day after 9/11, it is high time to trash the ‘clash of civilisations’ theory and the ‘war on terror’ and start a new chapter in the West’s relationship with the new Middle East. ]]></description>
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		<title>Confessions of a &#8216;self-hating Arab&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://chronikler.com/middle-east/politics/self-hating-arab/</link>
		<comments>http://chronikler.com/middle-east/politics/self-hating-arab/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KhaledDiab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Only self-hating Arabs and Jews can save the Middle East from itself.

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		<title>Rejected by the right, Western Muslims are only left with the left</title>
		<link>http://chronikler.com/europe/multiculturalism/left-with-the-left/</link>
		<comments>http://chronikler.com/europe/multiculturalism/left-with-the-left/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 07:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KhaledDiab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No Muslim in their right mind would support far-right Christian groups in the West, though they may well symathise with their Muslim equivalents elsewhere.

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		<title>Atheists: Egypt&#8217;s forgotten minority</title>
		<link>http://chronikler.com/reflections/belief/atheist-minority/</link>
		<comments>http://chronikler.com/reflections/belief/atheist-minority/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 08:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KhaledDiab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Egyptian atheists and religious sceptics are a minority that exists in reality but not in official statistics.

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