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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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- Promising
- Qashlamish
- Aid perspective
- So humane
- Kill the people-destroy the land
- Kontrol
- Are you kidding me?
- Israeli settlers kill Yahya
- Local food and sustainable farming reaches academia
- Question
- Ten percent
- Badael-Alternatives
- Stealing Ethiopia's birthright
- Growing power
- The scam: market-based environmental solutions
- Water privatisation is good...euh..bad...euh...good
- Aid politics
- Good deal
- Land reforms repackaged: great news
- Twice as much
- A diet dies
- Yes but does it work?
- Creative
- The end of the end of history
- They even fear our cows
- Israel invents water apartheid
- Israel destroys Palestinian lands
- Israel destroys Palestinain homes
- Israel destroys Palestinian economy
- Bad news
- I hate sugar and sugar cane
- Land and agrarian reforms
- Colonialism is alive and kicking
- Landfill to replace Roman cistern
- Alternative fisheries
- Poseidon Corleone
- Savage sewage
- Badael/Alternatives
- The deprived and the depraved
- Somalia
- Cover
- Breathing again
- I feel the earth move...
- Pakistan
- Gaza: this land is my blood
- Rural poverty
- Resistance is organically farmed
- It's good, it's clean, but it is fair?
- More Bedouin series drama
- Once a week
- Drought, hunger and violence
- Badael-Alternatives
- Whet Christmas?
- Boycott Israeli dates during Ramadan campaign (and...
- Refugees hunger riot
- Land and women's rights
- I am so grateful to Marcy for forwarding most of t...
- War and aid
- Illegal everywhere
- From gunboats to FTA
- Omni-standards
- The price of organic food
- Been trying to blog since yesterday, but I wasn't ...
- Rami K. sent me a link to this extremely interesti...
- Israel gives new meaning to the virtual water concept
- The Limited Promise of Agricultural Trade Liberali...
- Oyoun Orghosh and Nabha: water feud in the making
- Badael-Alternatives
- Ramadan in Nablus
- Occupation flavor
- Trade is back
- Cash back
- Africa
- Ramadan crunch
- Boycott fact sheet
- Ramadan
- Slavery revisited
- Terrorist parsley
- Did anyone say "disillusionment"?
- Not many are big
- Heavy horses
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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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