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Issue Details: First known date: 2001... 2001 Ghubar
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Beirut,
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Lebanon,
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Middle East, Asia,:Dar al-Masar lil-Nashr wa-l-abhath wa-l-tawthiq , 2001 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Dustiesi"Deserted are the roadways, and we're blowing about alone. The earth has come to dust; and here we are,", Wadih Sa'adeh , single work poetry
The Beauty of the One Passing Oni"The ones passing on quickly are beautiful. They don't leave behind the weight of a shadow. Perhaps a little", Wadih Sa'adeh , single work poetry
Exile of Languagei"If language is truly our home, we are living in exile.", Wadih Sa'adeh , single work poetry
Shade That We Bei"They're shadows, they're shadows. Don't despair. Strike the tree and shadows fall. Cut the branches, you'll", Wadih Sa'adeh , single work poetry
Desirei"The one who has dropped desires has reached the goal. For there's no desire to go further, nor to arrive.", Wadih Sa'adeh , single work poetry
Knowingi"Are we to feel assured when we know, or are we more anxious?", Wadih Sa'adeh , single work poetry
Splittingi"It tramples on everything in its path, the caravan does. It squashes it silently, blindly.", Wadih Sa'adeh , single work poetry
Deviancei"Deviants invented our values, they entrusted us with a beautiful secret civilization, in exchange for a", Wadih Sa'adeh , single work poetry
Exilei"Man is a reasoning being? Insufficient adjective. No longer precise.", Wadih Sa'adeh , single work poetry
Paini"If it is possible to define history, one can say that it's the history of pain.", Wadih Sa'adeh , single work poetry
Forgettingi"Memory or life? Suffering or forgetting?", Wadih Sa'adeh , single work poetry
The Happiness of Forgettingi"Forgetting has a buoyancy of flight in the heart of happiness, which memory, sinking under its weighty", Wadih Sa'adeh , single work poetry
Memory's Tragedyi"Perhaps it brings no joy to recall and remind that envy, revenge, murder... are daughters of memory.", Wadih Sa'adeh , single work poetry
Suffering the Memory of Happinessi"Don't recall a deer that has disappeared in the thickets - that will only make you miss other deer which pass", Wadih Sa'adeh , single work poetry
Memory of Desirei"Whoever desires, becomes victim of his desire. He who seeks to conjure a desire which has gone away", Wadih Sa'adeh , single work poetry
Memory of Placei"So are you here, while you remember there?", Wadih Sa'adeh , single work poetry
Memory of Historyi"We are not our essential self. We are the history stuffed into us.", Wadih Sa'adeh , single work poetry
Memory of Fathers and Sonsi"Since their birth we begin to exile them from their essential selves. We hammer into them the nails of our", Wadih Sa'adeh , single work poetry
Memory of Arrivali"The origin of sufferings is the idea of arrival, since there is no arrival, there is no point, no place to sit on the", Wadih Sa'adeh , single work poetry
Silencei"Why did Nietzsche pass his last years silently secluded? Did he want to say that silence is the highest stage of", Wadih Sa'adeh , single work poetry
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