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	<title>Constructing Kasun, Educator &#187; Israel</title>
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	<description>Chronicling the construction/deconstruction of a doctoral student of education's journey</description>
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		<title>&#8220;You&#8217;ll Never Meet a Tree That Doesn&#8217;t Want to Grow&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://kasun.edublogs.org/2008/02/15/writing-workshop-open-your-eyes-open-your-heart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like anyone who has registered with the Georgetown Center for Contemporary Arab Studies Outreach Coordinator, I received an invitation to attend a writing workshop led by Palestinian author Ibsitam Barakat.  Participants would read her memoir about her childhood and then participate in a day-long session with her on February 2. 
I wondered what the session might be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hooked on Middle Eastern Complexities</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m trying to find a positive way to describe the dissonance I feel from today’s experiences as I transitioned from Fulbright participant in Tel Aviv to tourist in Amman, Jordan. I rode along the highway in Tel Aviv and looked for one last time at the garbage dump that has been rehabilitated to a land [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Closing a Chapter, Part I:  The Night Before Leaving Israel</title>
		<link>http://kasun.edublogs.org/2007/08/10/closing-a-chapter-part-i-the-night-before-leaving-israel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came here for so many reasons.  I wanted to understand the Middle East in a post 9/11 world.  I wanted to learn about religion, identity, history.  My cup is full.  I’ve had some amazing moments, maybe even some of the best in a lifetime.  I’ve also been challenged in ways I hadn’t anticipated.  It’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palestinian and Arab Voices in Israel</title>
		<link>http://kasun.edublogs.org/2007/08/08/palestinian-and-arab-voices-in-israel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kasun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, we spent most of our day at the US Consulate in Jerusalem learning about Palestinian issues. Prior to that we visited Al-Qasimi Academic College of Education in the Arab town of Baqa El Garbiah. About 19% of the population of Israel is Arab—Muslim, Christian, or Druze (a small sect that is a sort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art, Belgian Ale, the Beach, and More</title>
		<link>http://kasun.edublogs.org/2007/08/04/art-belgian-ale-the-beach-and-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 15:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kasun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday we began with a lecture on Israeli media.  The lecturer, well-known in circles of folks who study political science and elsewhere, explained several interesting phenomena to us.  First, he said that the Palestinian Israeli conflict is an existential crisis which unites all Israeli Jews—something that is probably obvious but not something I had been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exercising the Will</title>
		<link>http://kasun.edublogs.org/2007/08/03/exercising-the-will/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kasun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After our lecture this morning, we have the rest of the day to ourselves—a small gift given us, as I think our advisor recognizes that we’re getting fatigued (or maybe he’s just getting embarrassed by our behavior as an audience?).  Today I’ll be in the old part of Jaffa, a small city that is now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slowly, Slowly</title>
		<link>http://kasun.edublogs.org/2007/08/01/slowly-slowly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israelis commonly use this expression.  In Hebrew, it’s “Leat, leat.”  It’s used to express encouragement to take time with things, to be methodical, to not make the mistake of being rash.  Something like, “We hope to make peace in this land slowly, slowly,” or, even, “We should study the Talmud slowly, slowly.”  They also say, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Destruction and Conflict&#8230; and the Lost Blog Post</title>
		<link>http://kasun.edublogs.org/2007/07/30/destruction-and-conflict-and-the-lost-blog-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 04:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kasun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I realized I forgot to download a post.  Unfortunately, I am finding out this morning that I wrote right over it and lost the post.  I won&#8217;t be able to reconstruct it.  I wrote it the day before yesterday during the break in a three hour session about Zionism.  I had written about what defined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Impressions of Israel, a Poem</title>
		<link>http://kasun.edublogs.org/2007/07/30/impressions-of-israel-a-poem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kasun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we went to Tel Aviv (we’ve been staying in a suburb of the city and have been into town for dinner and swimming).  Modern.  Clean.  Great architecture.  The young and fashionable populate the streets alongside those who care less about fashion in their strappy Velcro sandals and worn T-shirts.  The Mediterranean beaches offer sand as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sacred and Profane in Israel</title>
		<link>http://kasun.edublogs.org/2007/07/28/sacred-and-profane-in-israel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 07:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kasun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I traveled wide territory in an emotional sense.  We started our day at the Herzl Museum and Educational Center a site that commemorates the founder of Zionism in its culmination in the form of the Jewish state.  Several famous Israelis, including Herzl, Golda Meir, and Shimon Peres, are buried there.  The museum part helps [...]]]></description>
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