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Ethnobotanical knowledge from Lebanon
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A source on food, farming and rural society
Land - suheir hammad
his approach
to love he said
was that of a farmer
most love like
hunters and like
hunters most kill
what they desire
he tills
soil through toes
nose in the wet
earth he waits
prays to the gods
and slowly harvests
thankful
to love he said
was that of a farmer
most love like
hunters and like
hunters most kill
what they desire
he tills
soil through toes
nose in the wet
earth he waits
prays to the gods
and slowly harvests
thankful
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My book: Plants and People
Ethnobotanical knowledge from Lebanon
My book: Tales of the Badia سوالف البادية
To listen to the stories click on the book cover للأستماع الى السوالف انقر الغلاف To order from Amazon go to http://bit.ly/cTacKV
My book: From `Akkar to `Amel: Lebanon's Slow Food Trail
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My book on Research for Development
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In times of political crisis in Lebanon and the region, this blog will carry news updates and analysis
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- Badael-Alternatives
- Organic Lebanon
- Khiar
- Serious oil
- Next pope: Al Gore
- Conspiracy DeNile
- Muqawama...to GMO
- Eat more, talk less
- How to beet GMOs
- Toum and Jerry
- Toilet to tap
- Mzungu
- Imported cultures
- "Where I live," she said. "I want to have an olive...
- They don't want Iran's nuts, just its nukes
- Inverted sugar
- soy ultrajado
- Perennial garden
- Perennial problem
- Rigged commerce or free trade?
- Baron Gore
- Rats!
- How do you become a neo-lib?
- EU-WTO-EPA: killer acronyms
- Palestinian food rights
- Agritourism
- Fish au roummane
- I had a farm in Africaa
- Litani again
- Monopsony
- Roummane
- Arundhati
- In the eye of the beholder
- Cow and chicken
- Warm
- Water hyacinth in lebanon
- Anti poverty or anti poor?
- Rural development and Agrarian Reforms
- World Bank boss
- Banking the poor
- Food history
- You are what you eat
- Last hash
- The real pirates
- Safe from us
- Global warming: Simmering
- Badael-Alternatives
- Ashaer
- Hash fatwa
- Yamli
- Negroponte
- Legalize it!
- Delugeions
- Practical
- Objectivity
- Word
- Se faire baser par les USA
- Money...it's a crime
- Monopolitics
- Wheat again
- Late
- Fried Green Tomatoes
- Consumed
- Jatropha
- Organize, educate, agitate
- Carbon trading
- Agriculture in the Islamic Golden Age
- Who done it
- Hunger
- It's the olive oil season in Palestine too
- Agriculture for Development at the Bank
- Farming in South Lebanon
- Poor Turkey
- White wash
- Natural Born Killers
- Alternatives 4
- IMF discovers hot water: inequality rises alongsid...
- Palm reader
- Green change
- The Merchants of the Temple
- Seed bank
- Convergence
- Via Campesina
- A man and his oil
- Drought
- Weed it and reap
- Market forces
- Rotting the world
- Southern food
- Kfar Rouman
- Liberal democracies
- Milk again
- Land reforms: alternative history
- khebz w melh
- Hassan Bové
- Altered state
- Repercussions
- The last samurice
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About Me
- Rami Zurayk
- Beirut, Lebanon, Lebanon
- Opinions on this blog are expressed personally and do not necessarily represent the opinions of any institution I may be affiliated with.
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1 comment:
What a lovely piece with a song, too. Thank you, thank you.
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