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		<title>Presentation: Deserts and Mountains</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A short presentation on some of the themes explored in Deserts and Mountains, a novel by Yilmaz Alimoglu. The story follows one man&#8217;s transformative journey through the past, during which he gains a deeper understanding of the present. Ali Dogan is a man in search of identity in a world where none is given, a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yilmazalimoglu.com&#038;blog=18308015&#038;post=2700&#038;subd=exploringtheheart&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rumi:There is neither Islam nor Disbelief in this place</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[O Friend! we are near you in friendship, Wherever you set foot, we prostrate ourselves like earth. How is it permissible, in the religion of love, That we should see your Creation and neglect to see You? That Friend brought me up with great care and attention; He sewed me a garment from skin and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yilmazalimoglu.com&#038;blog=18308015&#038;post=1312&#038;subd=exploringtheheart&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking about Friedrich Nietzsche by Yilmaz Alimoglu</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yilmaz Alimoglu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nietzsche said: “We interpret ourselves as a unity in a world of images, which we created”. Do I think this statement can be used to interpret Ali’s life experience before he starts his journey as told in Deserts and Mountains? There was a degree of contempt in Ali’s heart that caused him some uneasiness toward [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yilmazalimoglu.com&#038;blog=18308015&#038;post=953&#038;subd=exploringtheheart&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A sermon, and Deserts and Mountains by Dick Moore</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 23:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lent 2, 2011 Who&#8217;s Included in the Promise? My journey of Lent started with an air flight to Los Angeles to visit my daughter and her family last week. I had packed the book Best Laid Plans and was about to begin reading it when my seat mate asked me about the book. I talked [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yilmazalimoglu.com&#038;blog=18308015&#038;post=780&#038;subd=exploringtheheart&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jojo Chintoh is reading a review of Deserts and Mountains.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 04:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Jojo Chintoh is reading a review of Deserts and Mountains. Jojo is a Canadian television journalist, who worked as a feature and documentary reporter for CityTV in Toronto from 1978 until 2009/2010. In 1985, Chintoh received a CanPro award and a Gemini award nomination for his series, &#8220;Down and Out in Parkdale&#8221;. He received [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yilmazalimoglu.com&#038;blog=18308015&#038;post=506&#038;subd=exploringtheheart&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Review of Deserts and&#8221; Mountains: Deeper than Joyce By Rick Coanda, Ph.D</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 03:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yilmaz Alimoglu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A REVIEW of &#8220;Deserts and Mountains, A Novel&#8221;, By Yilmaz Alimoglu, 798 wds By Rick Coanda, Ph. D In &#8220;A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man&#8221; James Joyce held that an artist&#8217;s job was to forge in the smithy of his soul &#8220;the uncreated conscience&#8221; of his race. Joyce, as an artist with [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yilmazalimoglu.com&#038;blog=18308015&#038;post=503&#038;subd=exploringtheheart&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Deserts and Mountains&#8217; Book Review: Who benefits from reading &#8220;Deserts and Mountains&#8221;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 22:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yilmaz Alimoglu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just finished reading &#8220;Deserts and Mountains&#8221; by Yilmaz Alimoglu. It is so full of surprises and sparks of wisdom, it beckons one to turn another page and read more. I recommend this novel to all people, regardless of faith, or lack thereof, for an experience that seems foreign at times, yet never fails [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yilmazalimoglu.com&#038;blog=18308015&#038;post=404&#038;subd=exploringtheheart&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review of &#8216;Deserts and Mountains&#8217;: Much like those taken by Coelho or Castaneda</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 01:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before I begin my review, I will confess that I identify with the protagonist Ali. Enough said. Ali is a man searching for answers. The jacket notes tell us he is a student of Sufism, and from this, many of us would infer what we have seen in the movies, the Whirling Dervish. Ali whirls, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yilmazalimoglu.com&#038;blog=18308015&#038;post=391&#038;subd=exploringtheheart&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yilmaz Alimoglu will present his book, Deserts and Mountains, at the Levantine Cultural Center</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 16:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE [Los Angeles, Feb. 28] Turkish author Yilmaz Alimoglu will present his book, Deserts and Mountains, at the Levantine Cultural Center, March 10, 7:00 pm, 5998 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90035. &#8220;Reminiscent of Paolo Coelho&#8217;s The Alchemist, with a hint of Elizabeth Gilbert&#8217;s Eat, Pray, Love, Alimoglu&#8217;s [novel] follows the inner [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yilmazalimoglu.com&#038;blog=18308015&#038;post=372&#038;subd=exploringtheheart&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review by Darren Logan &#8212; An Oil Painter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yilmaz Alimoglu</dc:creator>
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