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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
Blog Archive
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2008
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- Arabia Felix: pas de quoi etre heureux
- Mediterranean nutrition: the challenges lie ahead
- Iran wheat
- Water and the rural poor
- The crunch
- Bon debarras
- A brief history of trade
- The limits of empire
- Colonial development
- Organic exports from Egypt
- Trade
- Body on the line
- Ahlan! Welcome!
- The limits of the local
- Costing
- Lebanon cluster bomb: a documentary
- "Colonizing Iraqi Cuisine by Omar Dewachi"
- Cultural struggle
- Genie out of the bottle
- Water=profit
- Syrian bread
- With the goat herders
- Wild recycling
- Badael-Alternatives
- Beirut: its coast line, its bars, its hezeb...
- Poor, oppressed and forgotten
- Right to Protection
- Oppress people, export food
- Lets dance!
- Trade
- Is this all that remains of the Bedouins? Syrian T...
- Aid ache
- The food we eat
- Bedouins denied lands and water
- Bedouins unrecognized
- Crippling growth
- Property bubble
- This is what my friend Leila had to say about the ...
- Water, food and social justice
- Fool crisis
- Nepal
- The plot thickens
- Israel-Zimbabwe
- Beware of the afterdrought
- BURghul not bulgur!
- Drought, Israel and Arab water
- Badael-Alternatives
- Where does the money go?
- Losers
- Yemen farming
- Vertical
- Atmospheric CO2 prevents bread from rising. (Thank...
- Who's the hoarder now?
- Finish your peas!
- Gaza: only the poor are under siege
- The desertification of Iraq
- Above the law
- Development ethics
- The end of food
- Arab Agriculture
- Government of National Unity
- Change the hardware
- Ethical trade moves into supermarkets. Or does it?
- Water hogs
- Environment Workshop
- NTTB
- New record
- Unnecessary tensions
- Leaking faucets
- Food colonies
- Farmsharers
- Badael/Alternatives
- Mootown?
- Orange
- Powerful bellies
- La Via Campesina Press Release
- Choking algae
- Credit access
- Remunicipalisation
- Search and destroy
- All rise
- Lethal combination
- New blog on food crisis
- Open sesame
- The plagues of Egypt
- Dubai
- Palestinian water
- Judge by yourself
- Soy Boliviano
- Export water plus
- Badael-Alternatives
- Independence day
- Aleppo pepper
- This is what we struggle for
- Flab
- Update on Lebanese Agriculture
- Look elsewhere
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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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