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Salameh Nematt is an international writer for The Daily Beast. He is the former Washington bureau chief for the international Arab daily Al Hayat, where he reported on US foreign policy, the war in Iraq, and the US drive for democratization in the broader Middle East. He has also written extensively on regional and global energy issues and their political implications. Daily Beast Correspondent |
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 Written under a pseudonym by an American journalist, this new blog about Burma, Dawbobopwint, is a tongue-in-cheek account of life in a police state. Apart from the fact that the Burma story is so compelling, it is also timely as democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi is expected to receive a prison sentence this week. This blog reads like something out of T.E. Lawrence's account of life in Arabia, as chronicled in his epic book Seven Pillars of Wisdom. The writer succeeds in drawing you into day to day Burmese life and in giving you a taste of how it feels like to be living under such an oppressive regime. I was moved. |
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