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		<title>Can Arab Preppies Save the Middle East?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A New England-style Boarding School Opens in Jordan
By Andrew Lee Butters/Madaba
In the popular imagination, New England boarding schools are a cloistered world where the blond-haired children of America&#8217;s blue bloods pick up the arch manners and the strange affinity for boat shoes that will mark them forever as a class apart. But not if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sex, Drugs and Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll in a Failing State</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lebanon&#8217;s underground music scene sees its own demise in the fading promise of the &#8216;Cedar Revolution&#8217;
By Andrew Lee Butters/Beirut
Despite a jihadist uprising in the north, a political crisis in the capital, and rumors of war swirling all around, it&#8217;s business as usual in Beirut&#8217;s packed nightclubs. The good-looking people in this good-time town have long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inside the Hizballah War Museum</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Andrew Lee Butters/Beirut
Ever wonder what it&#8217;s like inside a Hizballah bunker but not so eager to get kidnapped just to find out? Well, for a short time and a short time only, anyone in Lebanon can experience the next best thing by visiting the new Hizballah museum in the southern suburbs of Beirut, where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Kind of Peace in Gaza</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Andrew Lee Butters/Gaza City
On Patrol in Shijaiyah, the toughest neighborhood in Gaza City, Lieut. Naim Ashraf Mushtaha, 31, an officer of the Hamas Executive Force, spots a man in civilian clothes carrying an M-16 assault rifle and walking through the street suqs in broad daylight. His officers quickly encircle the suspect and demand that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Arab Leaders Bring Peace?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Andrew Lee Butters/Jerusalem
Has the Arab League finally broken its taboo on ties with Israel by sending a delegation to Jerusalem? Depends who you ask. The Israeli government has declared Wednesday&#8217;s visit by the foreign ministers of Egypt and Jordan a historic landmark on the road toward acceptance of Israel by the Arab world. &#8220;In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blair&#8217;s Mideast Mission Impossible</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Andrew Lee Butters/Jerusalem
Like so much else in the Middle East, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair&#8217;s first trip as a peace envoy to Israel and the Palestinian territories involves a squabble over real estate — or, in this case, office space.
Mr. Blair arrived Monday on 48-hour tour aimed, in part, at finding digs in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inside Bush&#8217;s Plan for Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Andrew Lee Butters/Jerusalem
It sounded very inspiring. In a major speech last night out of the White House, U.S. President George W. Bush called for a revival of peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians, and proposed that Israel and some Arab states hold a regional peace conference this fall. &#8220;The international community must rise to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Second Coming of Bashar</title>
		<link>http://www.andrewbutters.com/notebook/2007/05/the-second-coming-of-bashar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2007 12:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
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By Andrew Lee Butters/Damascus
Soldiers at the normally dour border crossing between Lebanon and Syria were dabka circle dancing and passing out candy. The streets of the Syrian capital were lined with tents stocked with tea and shawarma sandwiches. Billboards Proclaimed: We Believe in Freedom, We Believe in History, We Believe in You. Syrian state television [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Explaining the Lebanese Jihadi Crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.andrewbutters.com/uncategorized/2007/05/explaining-the-lebanese-jihadi-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2007 13:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Andrew Lee Butters/Beirut
Are you having trouble understanding what&#8217;s going on in Lebanon? Last summer there was war with Israel. All winter and spring the country has been in a political crisis between the government and Hizballah. And now all of a sudden there is some mystery jihadi group staging an uprising in a Palestinian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City of Everlasting Strife</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 18:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Andrew Lee Butters/Jerusalem
Today is Jerusalem Day, the holiday commemorating the &#8220;re-unification&#8221; of the city by Israeli forces in the 1967 war with Jordan, which at the time controlled East Jerusalem. Since this year is the 40th anniversary of the war, the city is awash with festivities, including a public concert last night and a [...]]]></description>
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