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		<title>Adventures in India (March 2010)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 15:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To Come&#8230;.. I hate blogging about things like a trip to India because there is no way I can tell you everything without boring you to death. Thus, I have come up with a solution. Instead of telling you about the whole trip, I will go into detail on one or two adventures during my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aliciaharley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7451433&amp;post=307&amp;subd=aliciaharley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Birthday Cakes and Airplane Nightmares</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently celebrated my 25th Birthday. A quarter century&#8212;SCARY. I was lucky enough to get two birthday cakes (one in New York and one in Cairo) from my loved ones and I thought the pictures were nice so I am sharing them. I had an interesting start to the 26th year of my life. It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aliciaharley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7451433&amp;post=304&amp;subd=aliciaharley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eat Local in Cairo</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the great things about the market and grocery store in Cairo is that it helps you learn to eat local, in season fruits and vegitables. As would be expected, the local street markets only sell in season produce from local farms. However, even when you go to the grocery store all of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aliciaharley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7451433&amp;post=299&amp;subd=aliciaharley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Egypt World Water Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[World Water Day is comming up on the 22nd of March (see the official website) and Egypt is preparing a month long list of activities to build awareness leading up to the big day. This week I went up to Alexandria to meet with the planning committee and local people interested in water in Egypt. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aliciaharley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7451433&amp;post=288&amp;subd=aliciaharley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Football (aka soccer)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Egypt recently beat its soccer rival Algeria 4-0 to advance to the African cup final where it beat Ghana 1-0, scoring the goal in the last few minutes of the game. It was an exciting week in Egypt and everyone in the street seemed to walk with their heads held a little higher. For Egypt, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aliciaharley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7451433&amp;post=287&amp;subd=aliciaharley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Egypt Update #2&#8211;Happy 2010!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 10:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[e-mail update] Dearest Friends and Family, So I lied, I said you would get quarterly updates and it has been a good six months since I sat down and wrote an update. For the vast majority of you who dread the extra e-mail, you can thank me, for the rest of you, I apologize for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aliciaharley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7451433&amp;post=272&amp;subd=aliciaharley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hamas vs Hummos</title>
		<link>http://aliciaharley.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/hamas-vs-hummos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 10:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While much of the Bruno movie was not worth the 10 dollars I paid to see it, this scene was particularly good and I wanted to share it. I am glad the Palestinians and Israelis can at least agree on something! Posted in Culture, Politics<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aliciaharley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7451433&amp;post=270&amp;subd=aliciaharley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Graduate School</title>
		<link>http://aliciaharley.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/graduate-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 09:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I just finished applying to graduate schools. I am applying to PhD programs in the interdisciplinary study of natural resources and hope to work on issues related to water depletion and degradation, agriculture and food security in the Middle East and maybe expand my research focus into central Asia&#8211;essentially a continuation and expansion of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aliciaharley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7451433&amp;post=269&amp;subd=aliciaharley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Military Spending in Egypt&#8211;the most productive use?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Official figures show that Egypt&#8217;s military expenditures have been declining from 7% of GDP a decade a ago to just under 3% of GDP today. However, many people argue that these figures likely do not tell the whole story. Egypt&#8217;s military-industrial complex is vast and continues to grow (with billion dollars in aid annually from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aliciaharley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7451433&amp;post=251&amp;subd=aliciaharley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fires are Very Scary</title>
		<link>http://aliciaharley.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/fires-are-very-scary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I got a call from my boyfriend at 1am telling me his apartment building was one fire and that he did not think he could make it down the six flights of stairs because they were filled with smoke. I jumped in a cab my heart racing and went over to his place [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aliciaharley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7451433&amp;post=250&amp;subd=aliciaharley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>COP15</title>
		<link>http://aliciaharley.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/cop15/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Everyone, This really has nothing to do with my time in Egypt but I wanted to post this video anyways as it is a moving statement about the international climate change conference in Copenhagen this past December which essentially ended with an agreement and non-binding target far below what is required to keep the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aliciaharley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7451433&amp;post=246&amp;subd=aliciaharley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Halloween (October 31st 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We celebrated Halloween in style this year. My friend Tamara hosted a get together at her place. Sherif and I went as a Saudi Couple and stopped into the local liquor store on the way to pick up some beer&#8211;that was quite the site. Probably the first time that a covered women had set foot [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aliciaharley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7451433&amp;post=210&amp;subd=aliciaharley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Apartment in Dokki (As of August 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I moved in August from the neighborhood of Agouza to Dokki. Both are districts of the Greater Cairo Region on the West side of the Nile in Giza, but Dokki is a lot nicer than Agouza. I love my new apartment its on a small circle called Midan Messaha. Its right next to a nice [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aliciaharley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7451433&amp;post=202&amp;subd=aliciaharley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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