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		<title>An ode to Arab love songs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Love is a universal theme in music, but there are good reasons for the Arab world's preoccupation with romance.]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s love got to do with it?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Osama Diab For Egyptian marriage offices, the search for profit has replaced the search for a perfect union. June 2009 It was a story of would-be love gone horribly wrong. Alaa El Din Mahmoud went to Al-Alamiya marriage office to find a suitable wife. The office made him a match, Mahmoud proposed and she said yes. He bought her gold, he bought her gifts, but every time he tried to talk about actually getting married, she evaded the topic. Finally the suitor sought help from lawyer Mohamed Konsouh. Together, they discovered that the woman was already married to the owner of the marriage office. “The owner of the office listed his own wife as a potential partner for his customers until one of the customers got involved in a relationship with her,” Konsouh says. Matchmakers, both formal and informal, have existed for as long as the concept of marriage has been around. But modern marriage offices have seemingly strayed far from the path of traditional matchmaking, often arranging temporary summer marriages for wealthy Arab tourists, or serving as a sort of immigration service by promising to match clients with partners of dual citizenship. Aside from diminishing the sanctity of [...]]]></description>
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