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		<title>Joseph Massad, homophobia, gay rights and the structure of modernity</title>
		<link>http://meemgroup.org/news/2010/02/joseph-massad-homophobia-gay-rights-and-the-structure-of-modernity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>meem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joseph Massad, homophobia, gay rights and the structure of modernity A hostile and no doubt completely garbled account of a talk at UCLA by Joseph Massad on David Horowitz&#8217;s website, written by one of the ignoramuses employed by Campus Watch (I will not link to this article, but you can easily find it online), has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helem Launches two case studies on institutional discrimination against gays and lesbians in Lebanon: Higher Education and Health Services</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>meem</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Helem Activities]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Helem Launches two case studies on institutional discrimination against gays and lesbians in Lebanon: Higher Education and Health Services Helem would like to invite you to attend the launching of two case studies on institutional discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in Lebanon: “The Rights of Gays and Lesbians to Universities” (Arabic) – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apply Immediately: Job Opportunity at Ayadina Association (Office Manager)</title>
		<link>http://meemgroup.org/news/2010/02/apply-immediately-job-opportunity-at-ayadina-association-office-manager/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>meem</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[job opportunity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[WHAT? The office manager provides active support to the efficient day-to-day operations as well as future strategies. The office manager performs duties of a confidential nature. WHEN? As soon as possible effective today. WHERE? Sin el Fil/ Nabaa. WHO? Students with a University degree.(preferably a female due to logistic reasons.) Requirements: • Managerial /administrative background. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bareed Mista3jil:  Pressed to Express:  By Alexis Pauline Gumbs</title>
		<link>http://meemgroup.org/news/2010/01/bareed-mista3jil-pressed-to-express-by-alexis-pauline-gumbs/</link>
		<comments>http://meemgroup.org/news/2010/01/bareed-mista3jil-pressed-to-express-by-alexis-pauline-gumbs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>meem</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International LGBT News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pressed to Express By Alexis Pauline Gumbs Published on: October 01, 2009 BAREED MISTA3JIL: TRUE STORIES BY MEEM bareedmista3jil.com, 2009 Bareed Mista3jil—roughly translated as “Express Mail”—is the perfect name for this collection of 41 personal stories by “lesbians, bisexuals, queer and questioning women, and transgender persons from all over Lebanon.” I waited by the door [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Day One Struggle: Seminar on Sexuality in Lebanon</title>
		<link>http://meemgroup.org/news/2009/11/one-day-one-struggle-seminar-on-sexuality-in-lebanon/</link>
		<comments>http://meemgroup.org/news/2009/11/one-day-one-struggle-seminar-on-sexuality-in-lebanon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>meem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beirut – November 6, 2009 – Helem, the first gay and lesbian organization in the Arab World, and Meem, a support group for lesbian women in Lebanon, are holding on Monday, November 9, 2009 at the American University of Beirut (AUB) a seminar on sexuality entitled “One Day One Struggle”. The event will take place [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gays and Lesbians and their Allies Protest Violence Against Homosexuals in the first public sit-in of its kind in Lebanon</title>
		<link>http://meemgroup.org/news/2009/02/gays-and-lesbians-and-their-allies-protest-violence-against-homosexuals-in-the-first-public-sit-in-of-its-kind-in-lebanon/</link>
		<comments>http://meemgroup.org/news/2009/02/gays-and-lesbians-and-their-allies-protest-violence-against-homosexuals-in-the-first-public-sit-in-of-its-kind-in-lebanon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>meem</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arab LGBT News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Around 200 people gathered on the afternoon of Sunday, February 22 on Sodeco Square in Beirut to protest violence and discrimination against minorities, especially homosexuals. Lebanese lesbians and gay men took to the streets in the very first public sit-in organized by Helem in Lebanon and stood almost in disbelief as banners with anti-homophobic and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Performing a Kiss in Saida 1950</title>
		<link>http://meemgroup.org/news/2009/02/performing-a-kiss-in-saida-1950/</link>
		<comments>http://meemgroup.org/news/2009/02/performing-a-kiss-in-saida-1950/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>meem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bashasha (left) and a friend. Studio Shehreadze, Saida, LEbanon, late 1950s Hashem el Maadi copyright: Arab Image Foundation &#8220;Films inspired the people a lot. They came to perform kissing in front of a camera. In a conservative society such as Saida (Sidon, Lebanon) people were willing to play the kiss between two people of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USJ Student Writes about Homosexuality for University Newspaper</title>
		<link>http://meemgroup.org/news/2008/12/usj-student-writes-about-homosexuality-for-university-newspaper/</link>
		<comments>http://meemgroup.org/news/2008/12/usj-student-writes-about-homosexuality-for-university-newspaper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>meem</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[homosexuality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[L’Homosexualité au Liban   Il ne faut surtout pas râter, dans presque tous les films hollywoodiens, le personnage cliché du gay-meilleur-ami ou le styliste au grain de folie attachant. Les Libanais les regardent et les trouvent bien sympathiques. Ils regardent regardent Elton John se marier avec sont amant (n’est-ce pas logique après 20 ans de [...]]]></description>
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