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2013.
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| Summary/Abstract |
I had two New Year's resolutions in 2011: to read Leo Tolstoy'sAnna Karenina and Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Annawas completed by Jan. 25 -- just when our lives turned into a 24-hour TV marathon tuned to Cairo's Tahrir Square as the world watched a dictator fall in 18 short days. We Syrians knew our country was not Egypt or Tunisia, but when even Libya ignited on Feb. 15, we collectively held our breath with hope. The weeks passed, the uprisings around the Arab world grew larger and more determined, and the seven volumes of Proust slowly collected dust on my nightstand
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