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Momentum
The Snowball Effect It’s the snowball effect; you start small, at the top of the hill, and as your snowball rolls down the hill it gains momentum and mass until you are able to blast across obstacles...
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Season of Migration to the North
>Al-Tayeb Saleh is a Sudanese author whose books transcend the boundaries of culture, time and geography even when he writes about village life in Northern Sudan. He presents this world with depth...
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صندوق و سلطان
سلطان_ مكلوم_ إنسان_ شيطان تناقضات أنا قادمة من وطن الخوف شر في هيئة إنسان ولا يخافون صوت القهر ابحث في بلاد القش عن إبرة عشق تخيط جرح كل الزهر العقل في بلدي حرامُ…. حرامُ مثل الكفر آهٍ من حنين الروح...
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يا رمل
غريب أنت يا رمل! تضربك الأمواج ولا تعاتبها أعاد البحر مراكبي وسكنت طياتك, فلم تسأل عليك, أرسم بإصبعي الماضي و الحاضر, ولا تثور سرق موج البحر أصدافك فظللت ببأسك مسامحا
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Scruffs
The guiltiest usually feels guiltless, Sanity is held at bay… You care less m you flourish..you worry , you wilt… But, don’t u dare argue that the heedless rule. The realists are never held sway, Till...
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Chant America, chant.
There is ample reason to feel relief that Osama bin Laden is no longer a threat to the world,he deemed enemies and the world needs less of such zealotry, not more.However, relief was not the dominant...
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Cigarettes and Relinquishment
It’s Because you stimulate my thoughts, my brain,simply everything. I want to tell you I like how you ignore me. As we meet at our friend’s house and talk about the revolution, as you carry your...
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"The Cloak" -- Nikolai Gogol
Reblogged from biblioklept: "The Cloak" by Nikolai Gogol In the department of—but it is better not to mention the department. There is nothing more irritable than departments, regiments, courts of...
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Attitude 101: Abandon the Victim in you.
We are responsible for our thoughts and actions whether deliberate or not. 1- Your behaviour is under your control, be liable and obligated. You might yell at someone or be blunt enough with your...
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Who understands Cairo?
Microbuses as the curse of Cairo traffic? Well, we do hate them but, they’re an incredibly powerful and informal system, Slum-like conditions in the ‘ashwa’iat. On the other hand, the slums,...
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Does Translation Make for ‘Literature Without Style’?
Originally posted on Arabic Literature (in English): The English language seems, generally, to have a greater anxiety about translation than do others. It is not just bringing other works into...
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Women Readers, Women Writers in 18th and Early 19th Century Lebanon
Originally posted on Arabic Literature (in English): In Anbara Khalidi’s Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist: The Life and Activism of Anbara Salam Khalidi, Khalidi spends a fair bit of time discussing...
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Want A Crash Course In Stanford’s Design Thinking? Here it is for free (Pt. 1...
Want A Crash Course In Stanford’s Design Thinking? Here it is for free (Pt. 1 Empathy)
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Define” Pt. 2 of Stanford Design Thinking Crash Course
Define” Pt. 2 of Stanford Design Thinking Crash Course
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Women
Fear, disappointment, anger and contempt are human aspects. ( And without any bias or bigotry or any misinterpretation you might get from my words, against men). Women are different, no doubt about it....
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In my society people confuse the “erotic” with a desire to have sex. The perception of the feminine eroticicism in our male dominated society is that an erotically charged woman is in some way ,...
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Danger! Thoreau on risk (Walden 107)
Originally posted on The Curious People: Some of Thoreau’s many visitors thought it was dangerous for him to live alone in the woods: “The old, infirm and the timid, of whatever age or sex, thought...
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Unchain Yourself
The chains that keep you bound to the past are not the actions of another person. They are your own anger, stubbornness, lack of compassion, jealousy and blaming others for your choices. It is not...
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