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Open Letter to President Mohamed Morsi from Maryam Al-Khawaja
Maryam Abdelhadi Al-Khawaja sends a letter to Mohamed Morsi in her capacity of The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) Acting President, to express her deep disappointment and to protest the unlawful and hostile treatment she was subjected to at Cairo’s International Airport on Sunday, August 16, 2012 by the Egyptian security forces.
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A man of words and not of deeds
A friend of mine, once said: A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds
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And when I try to get through, on the telephone to you, there'll be nobody home.
Friends tell me why don't I blog that much, especially when they listen to some of my stories or things I might call adventures. I don't really know why sometimes I feel like I'm just a bubble. A bubble with a very long lifetime, waiting for some random moment to burst to get out all the memories, to talk. That near-bursting moment comes a lot, but, veeery veeery rarely that it bursts. When it does, either I'm with the wrong person or with just no person at all.
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I'm going to the streets in the Jan25
I'm going to the streets in the Jan25
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Book review: The Promised Land by Grace Ogot
My review of The Promised Land by Grace Ogot, a Kenyan writer. The book was first published in 1966.
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Duolingo
Duolingo - A tool to learn a foreign language through translation.
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Reflections on technology
I just finished watching a Lebanese-Swedish movie, Zozo. It is about a Lebanese boy, with the name Zozo, during the civil war, who gets separated from his family and ends up in Sweden. In the beginning there is this scene where the father is mad at his son for trying to get his mother's attention while they were following the news about the war on TV, while the boy had just finished crafting a piece of wood and wanted to show it to his mother.
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Twitter translations priorities
With all due respect to western European languages, why do twitter ignore a language like Arabic with hundreds of millions of speakers and begin with less-popular western European languages? I applied to be a volunteer translator for Twitter in 2009 and no one answered which is something weird considering Twitter's efforts to switch to Web interfaces vs API by acquiring the most used twitter clients on all platforms.
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Advice in case you are beaten by police or army
Advice in case you are beaten (by Mai Shams El-Din Ismail)
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Yahoo Groups violations?
Last week I was added to a Yahoo group on my Gmail, that seemed of a spammy nature, not to mention the action itself is considered spam. I reported the group to Yahoo and this is what I got in reponse: We appreciate your report of this incident in Yahoo! Groups. We will investigate your report and take appropriate action as per our Terms of Service (TOS). For further details about the Yahoo! TOS, you can visit:
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The moment? Or your past, future and legacy?
There are many times in life, you ask yourself, is it really worth it?You ask this when you see someone die, when you see the outcome of an aweful bloody struggle. When your passion for something just dries up. When your passion for someone just dries up. When you suffer neglect after giving away so much. When you suffer betrayal after giving away so much. When you are in the dark for so long that you forget the mere existence of light, that when someone mentions it you can't even recognize the meaning.
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RIP old friend…
In the last few days I was informed that someone I knew, knew from a long time, committed suicide. A first time I ever encounter the fact that someone I knew committed suicide. I knew her for a few years back, a normal Egyptian girl, her father died in her early teenage.