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Jul 3 2009, Marco Villa

I remember when Michael Jackson came to Tunisia to perform two shows. A aunt of mine attended the show and then wrote us a letter describing it as an unforgettable night. She sent us the concert ticket: a colorful cutout of Jackson dressed in his famous..

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A Bedouin man walks past a building in the village of Rahat, near the town of Beer sheva, southern Israel, Friday, Jan. 2, 2009. The Arab town of Rahat, population 45,000, is about 24 miles from Gaza and is situated on the outer perimeter reachable by...