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		<title>Hunting for gold in Ghazni province</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part 3 of 3 Right now, Afghanistan depends on foreign donor money for more than 90 percent of its budget. Decades of war and Taliban repression have left its business institutions fragile. A good part of its own homegrown economy is illicit &#8211; think poppy &#8211; while another part, the bakeries, groceries and SIM card [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=angelashah.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7018708&amp;post=1796&amp;subd=angelashah&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Glimpses of Herat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelashah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part 2 of 3 I spent a day in Herat, interviewing entrepreneurs in this city located in the far northwestern corner of Afghanistan about an hour&#8217;s south of the Iranian border. That afternoon, we took a driving tour of the city and the security situation was stable enough to warrant a visit to the Citadel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=angelashah.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7018708&amp;post=1787&amp;subd=angelashah&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>#Kabul</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 06:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part 1 of 3 Afghanistan is probably what you&#8217;d call a niche travel destination so I was surprised to find a Lonely Planet guidebook for the country, sitting beside those for other Central and South Asian locales. Along with a fairly good history of the country detailing the many emperors Afghanistan has hosted in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=angelashah.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7018708&amp;post=1753&amp;subd=angelashah&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saadiyat Solitude</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m still gathering my notes and organizing photos from my recent trip to Afghanistan. In the meantime, I wanted to share a quick review I wrote on the new Park Hyatt hotel on Abu Dhabi&#8217;s Saadiyat Island. The Saadiyat project itself &#8212; slated as AD&#8217;s new cultural district &#8211; has been delayed and questions raised [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=angelashah.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7018708&amp;post=1733&amp;subd=angelashah&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Picture Thailand</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past August, my friend, J.M., and I spent two weeks exploring Bangkok&#8217;s temples and the beaches in Phuket. The scenery &#8212; especially to the greenery-starved eyes of we sandbox dwellers &#8212; was such that this slideshow could have been 99 percent sunset snaps. I learned a lot about &#8220;Siam,&#8221; including how it is the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=angelashah.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7018708&amp;post=1667&amp;subd=angelashah&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arab Voices Before the &#8216;Spring&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many people, 2011 was the year of an awakened Arabia, whose voices served as the catalyst for the oft-mentioned &#8220;Spring.&#8221; Sultan Al Qassemi, who writes the Felix Arabia blog, gained a measure of fame himself during this season of Arab discontent and revolution. Still, as powerful as these voices are, Al Qassemi recently wrote in Jadaliyya, an online publication produced [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=angelashah.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7018708&amp;post=1664&amp;subd=angelashah&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gag order, revisited</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In October, the International Bar Association held its annual meeting in Dubai. But it almost didn&#8217;t happen. Here is my story for the ABA Journal, including an interview with IBA leader Mark Ellis, who recounted how they managed to assuage security officials&#8217; concern and prevent a last-minute herding of the group&#8217;s 5,000 attorneys to an alternate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=angelashah.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7018708&amp;post=1657&amp;subd=angelashah&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Santa Camel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 10:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Merry Christmas from the sandbox!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=angelashah.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7018708&amp;post=1648&amp;subd=angelashah&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>#EmiratizeXmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 07:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Abu Dhabi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[@sultandarmaki is one of my favorites in Twitter-dom. His sharply worded tweets humorously poke fun at stereotypes about Emiratis &#8212; both at expats who might hold them and fellow Emiratis who might exhibit them &#8212; under the thread #ProudToBeEmirati. Yesterday, he started a hilarious thread called #EmiratizeXmas. Read from the bottom up. sultandarmaki Sultan Saeed Darmaki [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=angelashah.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7018708&amp;post=1643&amp;subd=angelashah&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Makeover</title>
		<link>http://angelashah.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/makeover/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angelashah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fashion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of U.S. magazines have launched Middle Eastern editions based out of Dubai in the last year. The latest is publishing stalwart, Good Housekeeping, which had its debut this month. My friend Eileen Lee was doing the makeup for the premiere edition of &#8220;Look for a Lifestyle,&#8221; a monthly feature where Danielle Elmes, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=angelashah.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7018708&amp;post=1628&amp;subd=angelashah&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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