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	<title>Kaleidoscope</title>
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	<description>A Kuwaiti &#38; Middle Eastern literary blog magazine where writers and thinkers meet to exemplify, vivify, and stylistically liquefy</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>False Employment</title>
		<link>http://inkaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/false-employment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaleidoscope</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Hadija Copyright © 2008
Location: Kuwait
What is a maid or a nanny? What are their job requirements? They are individuals hired to perform certain duties, such as, house cleaning, washing and ironing, cooking, vacuuming, and child care. Each one is hired for a certain job. Well, that is the way it should be!
Do you know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Postmodern Invitation: Modernity Is a Holy Practical Joke</title>
		<link>http://inkaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/a-postmodern-invitation-modernity-is-a-holy-practical-joke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaleidoscope</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[humanity]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://inkaleidoscope.wordpress.com/?p=162</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Author: Devil Finch Copyright © 2008
Blog: www.devilfinch.blogspot.com
Location: Kuwait
What good has modernity done for us? Have we, humans, become more civilized? Modernity has helped us to invent cures for different diseases, but it has also created Cancer, HIV, Bird Flu, Mad Cow&#8217;s Disease and tragically failed to cure Bo lowyooh and Khaz Baz.
Modernity helped us beat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notebook</title>
		<link>http://inkaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/notebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaleidoscope</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Shai (Kuwait)]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://inkaleidoscope.wordpress.com/?p=160</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Author:  Shai Copyright © 2008
Location:  Kuwait
She caught him, cross-legged, frantically writing hasty words on a worn-looking notebook. There was a stubborn looking crease on his forehead, and for a second, he held the end of his pen within the cage of his teeth. Squinting at his writing, it seemed he kept chewing on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call of Prayer</title>
		<link>http://inkaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2008/06/20/call-of-prayer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaleidoscope</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[mosque]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://inkaleidoscope.wordpress.com/?p=154</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Author:  Tantalize Copyright © 2008
Location:  Kuwait

 The mosque behind my house is in between, tucked away residential streets. It rests on a corner; appearing uneventful. The walls are a dull sandy color like the blotches of desert around it. Few of the air-conditioners half work. Cracked walls on the outside of the building [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Election Day</title>
		<link>http://inkaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2008/05/24/election-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 08:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaleidoscope</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Author:  Shai Copyright © 2008
Location:  Kuwait
It is in the middle of a chaotic rumble when a thought strikes me solid still. I stay fixed, bone-chilled despite the glaring sun, the suffocating warmth of colliding bodies. People are striding along, like bees, intent and purposeful. It feels too crowded, too constricting within the open [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overworked and Underappreciated</title>
		<link>http://inkaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/overworked-and-underappreciated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 04:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaleidoscope</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://inkaleidoscope.wordpress.com/?p=151</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Author: Unknown
Location:  Kuwait
Mom and dad were watching TV when mom said, &#8220;I&#8217;m tired, and it&#8217;s getting late.  I think I&#8217;ll go to bed.&#8221;
She went to the kitchen to make sandwiches for the next day&#8217;s lunches, rinsed out the popcorn bowls, took meat out of the freezer for supper the following evening, checked the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Existence</title>
		<link>http://inkaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/my-existence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaleidoscope</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://inkaleidoscope.wordpress.com/?p=149</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Author:  L  Copyright © 2008
Location:  Kuwait
Scented truth
Existing death
Troubled tears
Threatened breath



A drop of sun
And frozen rain
Are melted hopes
And endless pain




Time is cruel,
Love is blind
Hurt is beautiful
Pain is kind…



A sense of giving
And forgiveness too
Are heavenly made
And honey dew

Life is tough,
I am too
Together we&#8217;ll live
Just me and you


Today is tomorrow
Yesterday is now
My past is my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Believe?</title>
		<link>http://inkaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2008/03/01/do-you-believe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 07:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaleidoscope</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Author:  A  Copyright © 2008
Location: Kuwait
Has anyone ever called you a disbeliever recently? Not necessarily in the religious meaning, but in general? Have your beliefs started falling one after the other, while not even knowing what to believe in anymore?  Like things have lost their meaning? Like they don’t make any sense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sliver</title>
		<link>http://inkaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/sliver/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaleidoscope</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://inkaleidoscope.wordpress.com/?p=147</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Author: The Shrink Copyright © 2008Location:  Kuwait
It&#8217;s a fact that more women get referred for psychotherapy than men. The reasons vary, but the net result is that women have more faith in &#8220;talking therapy.&#8221;  This is a thin slice of the story of a man, his therapist and their shared state of nothingness.
This was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Valentine&#8217;s Day Crap</title>
		<link>http://inkaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/valentines-day-crap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaleidoscope</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Author:  Tantalize Copyright © 2008Location:  Kuwait
Valentine&#8217;s Day is approaching. Stores are intelligently displaying multitudes of ornamented white, to pink, to red flowers and merchandise to catch the gullible consumer&#8217;s eye and deep pockets. From birds to bears to other stupid cupids will be hanging from the fore fronts of stores waiting for female [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Wear the Hajab or Not?</title>
		<link>http://inkaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2008/02/09/to-wear-the-hajab-or-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 22:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaleidoscope</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Author:  Hadija Copyright © 2008
Location:  Kuwait
When I first came to Kuwait, I was approached many times, and was asked the same question, over and over:  “When do you think you will wear the hajab?” My reply was always the same: “I will wear the hajab when Allah gives me a sign to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The DV (Light Return)</title>
		<link>http://inkaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/the-dv-light-return/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 22:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaleidoscope</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
Author: Devil Finch Copyright © 2008
Blog: www.devilfinch.blogspot.com
Location: Kuwait
 
&#8220;The original sin is to limit the DV. Don&#8217;t&#8220; &#8212; Based on Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach.
 
I&#8217;m so tempted to start this post with a cliché. But no I shall write as sharp as a real devil finch. In fact, I should write [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Goat Rider of the Wild Wild West</title>
		<link>http://inkaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/the-goat-rider-of-the-wild-wild-west/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaleidoscope</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Hayat Copyright © 2008
Blog:  http://sherifa-kw.blogspot.com/
Location:  Kuwait
When Bill was sixteen, God knows who told him once that he would see a thousand stars in the sky with naked eyes in a blind dark Texas night if he found the right hill to stand on. This person must have seen him several times struggling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Time to Take Action: a Cry for Justice</title>
		<link>http://inkaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2008/01/25/its-time-to-take-action-a-cry-for-justice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaleidoscope</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As  first published to the editor in Kuwait Times on May 21, 2007
Author:  Hadija Copyright © 2008
Location:  Kuwait
Sir,
    According to Islamic law, men are permitted to marry up to four wives, as long as they can provide for them equally and be fair to them all. I think some men in Kuwait [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asylum</title>
		<link>http://inkaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/asylum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:36:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: The Shrink Copyright © 2008
Location: UK
Her reputation had preceded her. She was known as one of the most dangerous women in the country. It was also known that she was selective with whom she talked to, she had been in the system long enough to know that professionals came and went, that they were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kaleidoscope News</title>
		<link>http://inkaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/kaleidoscope-news-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been 2.5 years since the inception of Kaleidoscope. There have been a spectrum of posts from fiction to non-fiction from writers across the globe. Most of the short articles refer to lifestyles, dilemmas, gender issues amongst many others that are as creatively controversial as they are candid in mirroring Arab and Muslim consciousness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Huwwa</title>
		<link>http://inkaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/138/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaleidoscope</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Harmonie 22 (USA)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Author:  Harmonie 22 Copyright © 2008
Blog: http://theperceptionpoint.wordpress.com/
Location: USA
You Are
the Love Language
whose Name is sung
on the lips of lovers that be
and quivers on the lips
of lovers that would be
gender to gender genderless
all possibilities in all its forms of
solidarity
like to like and like to all
You
manifesting lovingly
through sweet songs sung
in swooning dialogue of lovers that be
You
the dialogue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loose Rap</title>
		<link>http://inkaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/loose-rap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author:  Gay in Kuwait Copyright © 2008
Blog:  www.gayinkuwait.blogspot.com 
Location: Kuwait
I have always loathed the &#8220;ganging up&#8221; sequence of humans, especially sheeply humans.
I was astounded when I heard today that a law was about to be passed that would jail homosexuals based on their &#8220;doubtful&#8221; appearances. Of course at first I simply ignored it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will You Divorce Me?</title>
		<link>http://inkaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2008/01/05/will-you-divorce-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 08:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Jasem Copyright © 2008
Blog: www.extension5151.wordpress.com
Location: Kuwait
I think one of the major attributes to the society that we are witnessing with our own eyes today is the product of a broken Kuwaiti family. I have heard once that the divorce rate in Kuwait has reached the 60 plus percentile levels. Even if that number was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saving Isaac*</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Devil Finch Copyright © 2007
Location: Kuwait
Blog: www.devilfinch.blogspot.com
Confinement:
I heard my complexion for the first time.
Brilliantly simple it seemed: Alif Lam Meem.
Accusation:
A one-winged-bug flew around me while I loved thinking that I fly.
Myself coffined in my own rug knowing that I didn&#8217;t:  Fie.
Judgment:
&#8220;O fantasy, you that at times would snatch us so from outward things
 [...]]]></description>
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