Category: war
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Venice Exhibition and ‘Facing Future’ Book: Embracing Creativity in a Changing World
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It has been a while since I posted. Here with this post, I hope to update you, my friends, with some of what has been happening in my creative life. As always I am trying to understand the changes happening in me and in the world around me, like most people are. The world is…
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Daily Coffee Talk~ 89/365
Hi again from Germany. It has taken me a while to force myself to come back to this blog since current events threw me completely off balance lately. But if there is anything I am sure of, it is that I am the boss of me and there is plenty of coffee left in the…
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Daily Coffee Talk~88/365
Hi again, The last few days I found myself unable to write, thinking constantly of the situation in Ukraine and feeling the pain of innocent people echoing in my mind. We must fight the low with embracing the high. If I have learned anything from witnessing the bravery of Ukrainian people, it’s that you cannot…
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Daily Coffee Talk~ 86/365
Have you every had the feeling that even when you are alone, you are really not? In my mind, there is never a dull moment. Thoughts, ponders, queries, hopes, questions, memories, investigations, plans, connecting of dots, and yes, sometimes fears and worries. I am finding it difficult to not be concerned about what is happening…
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Daily Coffee Talk~ 85/365
The world around us is always changing, every second could bring a new outcome, could cause a new future to onset. What are we in control of? Only our choices, in the now. Europe feels so turbulent at this time and that unsettlement, I feel echoed in me. I feel the shockwaves of the despair…
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Daily Coffee Talk~ 83/365
On the third day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, my mind goes back to my experiences with refugees and the misfortunes of war. I am finding myself unable to disconnect from the shock of seeing this happen in front of our eyes again, the war, the pain, the destruction, the displaced people and most…
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Daily Coffee Talk~ 82/365
I have no words for today, I can only echo what most of us are feeling which is that this cannot be. My heart goes to the innocent people in the Ukraine that have to suffer through that is unfolding in their home. From a child of war, this should not be allowed to happen.
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Daily Coffee Talk~ 66/365
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On November 13, 2019, I was in Tripoli during the height of what had come to be known as the October Revolution in Lebanon. During those months, Tripoli was given the name ‘ the bride of the revolution’, because its people rose with power, with hope, and with an undeniable spirit to right what was…
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The Complex Web of Greed~ Lebanon
I left my native Lebanon to New York City back in 1987. The war was still raging and the political and economic situations were highly unstable if not volatile. Today, almost 27 years later, the Lebanese struggle with rationed electricity, unstable economic and political situations, living on the brink of another war, receiving a flood of…