Existential Al Ain Goes to Dubai

EXCLUSIVE -- In the recording below you'll hear an excerpt of Rajaa al-Sanea, author of Girls of Riyadh, speaking about women, literature, writing and more during the "Women's Writing from the Arab World: Mansoura Ez Eldin, Haifa Bitar, Sahar el-Mougy, Rajaa al-Sanea with Hani Nakshabandi" talk at Dubai Festival City on Friday, February 27, 2009.


And I managed to get Rajaa's autograph in my own copy of Girls of Riyadh.










NOTE: The recording you'll hear is in both Arabic and English simultaneously, because as the talk was conducted in Arabic the audience had remote on-the-spot-translation devices in order to hear the talk in English.

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Rain in Al Ain Revisited

I got the full recording of the lightning/rain/thunder "sound effects" -- 26 minutes MP3 of the rain/thunder/lightning for relaxing and other psychogeographic purposes (e.g. listening to it with headphones while walking in a desert area on a sunny day.)

If anyone is interested in aquiring a copy (for free, of course) of this 26-minute "Rain in Al Ain relaxation tape [MP3]"...

(Read more to get your free copy). (Also check out here and here).

If You Were Awake...

...at 1:00 a.m. on Wednesday morning (January 14, 2009), you would have known first-hand...





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...that we had thunder, lightning, and rain in Al Ain.