In her video accepting the visionary award of YouTube (November 2008), Queen Rania spoofed David Letterman with 10 reasons of why she launched her channel against stereotypes on YouTube, 9 of those reasons are funny ones and one of the 9 is: “Because I was tired of people thinking Jordan was just a basketball player…”.
Three weeks in USA, I always make my way down to the lobby from the 18th floor. In that long journey everyday I meet new people, being in a hotel will tell them that I’m at least from another state if not from another country; that what makes the question: “Where are you from?” something that I used to hear all day long. Read the full post...
عشان بدي اكتب هاد العنوان قررت إنو رح اكتب بالعربي هل مرة. وصلت على أميركا قبل اسبوعين و بلشت من العاصمه واشنطن و بعدين على هيوستن، طبعاً هدول مدينتين معروفين. بعدين اكتشفت اني رايح على مدينه اسمها سينت لويس بحياتي ما سمعت فيها و بس وصلت هناك عرفت ليش عمري مش سامع عنها.
سينت لويس مدينه ما فيها الفشخرة تبعت باقي المدن إلي بعرفها أو شفتها، يعني ببساطة الجماعة مفلسين و عباب الله. لفيت كتير و زرت مدارس، جامعات و شركات و بآخر يوم رحت أقابل مجموعة مجتمعين بدهم يطوعو بحديقة عامه عشان ينظفوها و يصلحو شوية شغلات بس إلي فاجأني إنو مش هاد الهدف الأساسي للاجتماع، هدول مجموعة مسلمين، مسحيين و يهود بجمعية لحوار الأديان. طبعاً الموضوع بالنسبه إلي كان كتير غريب خصوصاً بعد ما قالولي إنو بهاي المدينه كان المسلم أو اليهودي ما بطلعلهم يتعالجوا بمستشفى مسيحي (يا فرحتهم)، يعني يموتو الله لا يردهم. Read the full post...
As co-founder of Nakhweh.com I arrived to the United States on the 9th of April to participate in the International Visitor Leadership Program by the Department of the State under the title of “Volunteerism: United We Serve” with 104 people from more than 80 different countries. It’s my first visit to the USA; in general I like the country and the way it’s organized, also the people are very kind and friendly (I didn’t expect it though) but for sure it’s not the right place for me to live in. Read the full post...
Ron Dermer, one of the advisors of Netanyahu’s campaign has another opinion about the common quotes “We don’t imitate… we inovate”. As it’s very obviuos that Benjamin Netanyahu (the Israeli candidate for the prime minister) has cloned Obama’s website.
Taking a look on both homepages (use the Russian version for Netanyahu’s one to see it from left to right direction), you will figure out that both are really very close:
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