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		<title>World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo. Posted in Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mohamedfaisal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3950161&amp;post=126&amp;subd=mohamedfaisal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How stupid can he be!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we are all in a football mood, thought I&#8217;ll share this. Seriously what was the referee thinking. Posted in sports<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mohamedfaisal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3950161&amp;post=122&amp;subd=mohamedfaisal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Step away from political cannibalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was disappointment upon disappointment last night (NZ time). First, weeks of anticipation was dashed as I could not hear or see our team taking on Turkmenistan in the AFC Challenge Cup. I could hear Voice of Maldives online and there was no live streaming on TVM. More disappointment followed either side of half time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mohamedfaisal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3950161&amp;post=114&amp;subd=mohamedfaisal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This is inhuman. Who is responsible?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Faisal</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mohamedfaisal.wordpress.com/?p=109</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of the PhD full registration process, I gave a seminar today on my proposed research topic, urban transformation of Male&#8217;, which focuses on the social aspects of  urban livelihood. The seminar went well and I got very good feedback from the audience of students, professors and Maldivian colleagues at Victoria Uni. One of the questions put to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mohamedfaisal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3950161&amp;post=109&amp;subd=mohamedfaisal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An afternoon with Monet</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Faisal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was such a great feeling to be finally able to view the work of some of the greatest impressionist painters of the 19th century  at Te Papa, Wellington. The Monet and the Impressionists exhibition showcases over 55 paintings from one of the finest collections of 19th century French paintings held by  Museum of Fine Arts, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mohamedfaisal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3950161&amp;post=104&amp;subd=mohamedfaisal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Earth Hour and Politics of indifference</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 06:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wasn&#8217;t surprised that some people refused to join the Earth Hour events in Male&#8217; yesterday. Our thinking, our beliefs, our entire lives have become so politicised over the last couple of years that our vision has become arrogantly myopic. The funny thing is most of us do not really know what we stand for. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mohamedfaisal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3950161&amp;post=102&amp;subd=mohamedfaisal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Local government without  civil society</title>
		<link>http://mohamedfaisal.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/local-government-with-out-a-civil-society/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“It must be realised that the idea of local government is a decidedly Western notion which is intimately tied to the history of capitalism in the West, reaching its post-Fordist phase from the middle of the 1970s onwards, during which the role of the state was increasingly seen as a hindrance to economic development. Now [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mohamedfaisal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3950161&amp;post=96&amp;subd=mohamedfaisal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dragons and other Fantastic Creatures of my childhood</title>
		<link>http://mohamedfaisal.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/dragons-and-other-fantastic-creatures-of-my-childhood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dragons and ot&#8230; By Faizaan Faisal Book Preview Posted in creative<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mohamedfaisal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3950161&amp;post=93&amp;subd=mohamedfaisal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What if you win this world, what then?</title>
		<link>http://mohamedfaisal.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/what-if-you-win-this-world-what-then/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeh duniya agar mil bi jaaye is perhaps the hardest hitting song about life and our yearning for more. There is lesson in this for all of us.   Saahir Ludhiyanvi writes, sung by Mohamed Rafi and delivered on screen by Guru Dutt. The song is from the 1957 film Pyaasa which was included in the list [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mohamedfaisal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3950161&amp;post=83&amp;subd=mohamedfaisal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will this guy be banned in the Maldives for too much dancing?</title>
		<link>http://mohamedfaisal.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/will-this-guy-be-banned-in-the-maldives-for-too-much-dancing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
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