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		<title>April 15th</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago today, my uncle passed away. I send him my prayers. Filed under: Life<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salaamworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9801533&amp;post=418&amp;subd=salaamworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>College Essay</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 04:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hafsa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a current junior in high school, my brother is writing practice college essays.  And since I&#8217;ve forgotten how much fun some of these prompts are, I decided to answer one myself. A community can be defined by its shape, by who finds a seat there, by what transpires there, by what is inspired there. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salaamworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9801533&amp;post=406&amp;subd=salaamworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Portrait of the Bay</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hafsa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Berkeley]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nonfiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am beginning to understand this place, The Bay Area. Suddenly I am in a time crunch. Only about three months left until I return to my natural habitat. Saturday was spent in Berkeley, which I just fell in love with. It is full of rebellious youth, cafes, and tattoo shops. Berkeley is everything Stanford [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salaamworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9801533&amp;post=402&amp;subd=salaamworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A New Career Path? Maybe.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hafsa</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[House Hunters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prose/poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wish I could comment on House Hunters for a living – like a House Hunters critic of sorts. Because I have the television set now. A television commentator – a lofty profession. Worth looking into, I’d say. But House Hunters, because it is just so fascinating.  It’s just regular people buying shelter. Most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salaamworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9801533&amp;post=399&amp;subd=salaamworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Night</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hafsa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unfinished work]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“I do realize I’m a bit older than you.” “Thirty-two is not that much older.” “Isn’t it?” “No, it’s not.” “But don’t you think you’re just at a different place?” “A different place? No, I’m right here in London with you.” “No, I mean a different place in your life. You just finished graduate school. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salaamworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9801533&amp;post=398&amp;subd=salaamworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Truth Is&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://salaamworld.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/the-truth-is/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hafsa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I set a goal for myself to become a published author is exactly the same moment I realized what a mediocre writer I am. Good luck to me. Filed under: Life<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salaamworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9801533&amp;post=395&amp;subd=salaamworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Metra Blues</title>
		<link>http://salaamworld.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/untitled-unedited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hafsa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[autobiography]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You never thought you would miss the Metra.  You hated the way you had to wait in the space between the doors when the conductor called out your stop so you could stand in first place on the edge of the platform as the train pulled away from the station.  The space between was always [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salaamworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9801533&amp;post=393&amp;subd=salaamworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From the Bottom Up</title>
		<link>http://salaamworld.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/from-the-bottom-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hafsa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil Right's Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard Zinn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://salaamworld.wordpress.com/?p=387</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Don&#8217;t believe in great men. Believe in yourself.&#8221; Howard Zinn was a great man. After the 2008 attacks on northern Pakistan, he was the only person publicly announcing the fact that we were secretly at war with my home country.  While I watched thousands of my countrymen being bombed on Pakistani news networks, I saw [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salaamworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9801533&amp;post=387&amp;subd=salaamworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This is not a New Year&#8217;s Resolution.</title>
		<link>http://salaamworld.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/this-is-not-a-new-years-resolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hafsa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://salaamworld.wordpress.com/?p=381</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[1.    Finish my set of essays. 2.    Get a literary agent. 3.    Get published. My new check list. Deadline: December 2010. All of my life, I have wanted to be a writer. As a thirteen-year-old, I made a vow to see my name on the cover of a novel sitting in a bookstore. Since then, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salaamworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9801533&amp;post=381&amp;subd=salaamworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When We Were Very Young</title>
		<link>http://salaamworld.wordpress.com/2010/01/17/when-we-were-very-young/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hafsa</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[nostalgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the past]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I think of my hands, I also like to think about my childhood, those long hours spent in gymnastics: running across the springy floor, performing pirouettes on the balance beam, and swinging on the bars, my hands covered in ounces of white chalk, skin scraping against the wood, blisters bleeding profusely. -my friend, Brit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salaamworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9801533&amp;post=379&amp;subd=salaamworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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