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	<description>Thirteen Years in the Middle East</description>
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		<title>The Afghan-Pakistan Border in 1980</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I read of soldiers killed in Afghanistan and President Obama’s dilemma regarding an ongoing policy for American action, the rational pros and cons slip away as I remember a day on the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan in 1980. I was teaching in Bahrain and a visit to Pakistan offered a convenient destination for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women&#8217;s Dress in Bahrain and Iran, Part II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I returned in 2009 wondering if the trend toward traditional dress had intensified.  It had not. Perhaps not enough time has passed for a definite conclusion, but my impression is that fewer women veil their faces and the abaya has become a more fashionable outer covering. The cover picture for the book was taken this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://crowdedwithvoices.com/2009/08/30/womens-dress-in-bahrain-and-iran-part-ii/</link>
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		<title>Musing on Women&#8217;s Dress in the Middle East</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I lived in Bahrain in the late 1970s and through the 1980s, I thought Muslim women were steadily evolving away from the covered heads and black cloaks (abayas) of earlier decades. I almost never saw someone with a veil over her face. True, the Khomeini Revolution forced Iranian women back into black covering from head [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://crowdedwithvoices.com/2009/08/18/musing-on-womens-dress-in-the-middle-east/</link>
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		<title>Bahrain School News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Navy dependents are returning to Bahrain which will greatly increase the school enrollment this fall. After dependents were sent home in the summer of 2004, the Bahrain School enrollment – grades 1 to 12 – dropped to around 370 in a facility that could easily serve 1200 or more. I will be interested to learn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Houston Reunion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am finally coming down from the excitement of the Houston reunion where I saw so many of you that I taught 25 or more years ago. Hearing your news and about your accomplishments was incredibly rewarding. Around thirty of you bought the book and I was happy that several shared memories stirred by what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://crowdedwithvoices.com/2009/08/04/houston-reunion/</link>
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		<title>The Book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the official website for the book Crowded with Voices by Kay Chaudhri.  You can find information about the book and the author here as well as purchase it. If you have already read the book and would like to leave your comments, you can do so here, too.]]></description>
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