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I’m working to finish my senior project. I’ve added more photos to my photo gallery and will post more sooner. I’ll start my Arabic blog by 1st of Shawwal (Arabic month) which is after 4 or 5 days. I’m expected to graduate by 7th of February 2007. (Bachelor in Industrial Engineering). I might not

Not recycling this newspaper is the same as cutting down another tree This advertisement from Turkey is a Winner of the Silver World Medal at the New York International Advertising Festival and the Kristal Elma (for Best of Media Usage) in the local advertising competition. Agency: DDB&Co. Istanbul Creative Director and Copywriter: Karpat

The Islamic veil is not a subject I like to discuss on my blog mainly because it leads to so much disagreement from all sides of the spectrum that I would just rather avoid it. Never has a piece of cloth caused so much panic, fear and irrationality in the

Ludicrous Diversion - 7/7 London Bombings Documentary [Hat tip: Robin] On the 7th of July 2005 London was hit by a series of explosions. You probably think you know what happened that day. But you don’t. The police have, from the onset of their investigation, chosen to withhold from the public

I could not help myself … Lina introduced us to this great campaign and I thank her for doing so. Ever since I started learning the alphabet, reading was and still is a passion for me. I used to participate in reading contests in school and my favorite time was

JP iftar was cool idea, Thanks Khalida for arranging it, ohh well and maybe Roba :p The open buffet at Belle Vue Hotel was fine and I HAD TWO TASTY GATAYEEEEEF! (so i didn’t break my Ramadan’s schedule). In the other news we had many new faces, Namely Sam, The Observer, Nemir

Selections from the news bar about a week ago[it took me a while to decide wether to post this or not]:Venezuela demands that the UN's Security Council be removed from the United states.10 Iraqis killed and dosens wounded in terrorist suicide bombing.Syrian T.V: 'Prameretz' reports that the Syrian cooperation with

Big productions, huge budgets, more action and extensive visual effects on Arabic satellite channels… But it seems Arab bloggers are not impressed. This opinion is shared by newspaper columnists across the region who are critisizing most of these shows; citing the problems to be some poor scripts, some bad choices in

Tags: Palestine zionism israel racism terrorism occupation politics news mediaWell, those Palestinians man, they die everyday, surely we can’t report that everday!!! So what if she died because she was defending her husband and when she refused to stay away they shot her several times…I mean, Gilad Shalit was kidnapped and

“If you didn’t convert to Islam they we shop you’re head off!!”This is the tip of the ice berg for me, so many people think of Islam as a violent and bloody religion and every single time they talk about Islam all that comes in people heads are the WTC