Peace is a full time Job, Peace Keepers on the ground

Peace is not just a colored ribbon, its more than a wrist band or a T-shirt.
Its not just a donation or a 5 K race.It's not just a folk song, or a white dove. And peace is certainly more than a celebrity endorsement. Peace is a full time job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. The UN has over 100,000 Peacekeepers on the ground, in places others can't or won't go, doing things others can't or won't do. Peace, like war, must be waged.

Things I can do

1- turn fact sheets to videos and post them on Youtube and Ikbis in a dedicated channel
2- link those videos to Queen Rania Youtube Channel
3- Network with people around the world who worked on Middle Eastern Studies and include their views and support and findings
4- Draw thoughts
5- Inspire local singers to make music that is enjoyable and hearing friendly, art work and sculptures
6- Find strength in suffering and capture photos of success and hope
7- make wikis and develop answers in appropriate and documented content and propose it to places it can get adopted
8- Celebrate every success no matter how small

will be back

Fitr Mubarak for youu

عيد فطر سعيد

so you are feasting after all the tough fasting, this is happy time people

if you wanna feel something fuzzy about Eid, check this blog post entry, southern muslimah shows how people are celebrating Eid around the world

mish kulna min3ayyed zai ba3aad =P , there are different Eid cultural celebrations, and we know nothing about the Muslim nations in Asia, culture wise while there are so much in common, jameeeel

this is nice song for Eid thru the blog too




Enjoy your time

Ramadan Kareem

1st day in Ramadan to me means " Ataaaaaayef "

when Iftar begins, exactly after Athan, I go to the street to listen to the forks and dishes, really you hear them

Ramadan is beautiful because it gathers everyone around a table at an exact time, its joyous because it brings the families together and there lots of lit living rooms and fawanees

Ramadan Kareem people , yen3ad 3alaikom :)

Entertain yourself with this thought

in the middle ages, long long time ago, suppose you were a woman, who was born and raised as a christian, read the bible, loves Jesus, goes to church every sunday and before she got married, her father sat with her and told her, you are not a christian, you are a jew, we didnt tell you when you were a child because you would not keep a secret, we are secret jews, we were the new christians i.e the newly converted, back then women were not allowed to read Hebrew, men were only allowed to learn and attend the synogogue, and today you will be marrying a secret jew.

after marriage, she no longer allowed to the church, she can't really understand her new faith. what do you think happened to her belief system???
if you were her, what would you do?

PS: questions are based on The Coffee Trader by David Liss.

Israel is to outsource Gaza's electricity in 2 years

Israeli and Egyptian representatives agreed in principle Wednesday to a deal that would have Egypt replace Israel as the Gaza Strip's sole electricity provider. Under the deal, Egypt would set up a new power line from the Sinai Peninsula town of Arish to the nearby Gaza Strip. The 150-megawatt line would cost $35 million to set up, and would be operational within two years.
read more (here) and (here)
Egypt denied (here)

what is interesting to know is that Israel is not interested in Gaza for a historic reason.
check this map
David's and Solomon's Kingdom did not include Gaza, though some of their people claim that the state of Israel is the combined lands in both these maps.

Syriac Aramaic

i had some little notes over the past couple of weeks while looking up stuff, first is that the Hebrew language was anciently practiced for a short span, it was used for classical writing and this language died for centuries and came back in 1882 by Eleiser Ben Yehuda, at the time of Christ, Jewish People didnt speak Hebrew, the old testement and a huge portion of the jewish litterature were written in it, but the language spoken was Aramaic and the new testement was written in Aramaic.

you know, if you google the Bible or the Quran, you will find so many virtual copies of each of them in many languages, i have been looking for the Talmud, i couldnt find a virtual copy. nowhere, no torrents, nothing, i found books talking about it, a complete set of the Talmud for 2 thousand something dollars, but i didnt find a single pdf file of it. Jewish people do not have an open door policy for whom wants to learn their faith. isn't that weird? like Jews mock so many traditional practices by Christians and Muslims and they use all historic powers in their debates. but we really dont know much about their traditions and beliefs and they dont promote it. they hide within communities, currently i really find myself interested in learning these things

another thing is that Israel is reffered to as "SHE" , i've seen it several places and read it over Jewish forums and it kind of makes me think a lot, even if you enter their virtual library, you will find that a woman or the female in general is a very sacred entity even its more important than the man. you know a jew is identified by his mother, this is what i recall.

i just find jewish people very interesting ..

anyways, yeah,,, i was talking about Syriac Aramaic,, well Aramaic is still spoken in two cities in this world, i know one, its in Syria, its called "Ma3lulaa", "Maaloula" , i have been there many times, by the way Syria is a beautiful country moving in all directions from Damascus, there is so much nature there, and the people are nice and simple, Maloula is a very nice city and i brought a medel that has Aramaic writings which i still dont understand what it says with a group of friends zamaan, there are lots of ancient churches there, you can walk for hours, Mar Takla is beautiful, and once zaman in another visit i prayed there and what i asked in that prayer from God came true, i wasnt crazy or insane but it did happen

so if you wanna listen to some Syrian Aramaic, this is Our Father prayer

"ابانا الذي في السموات"

Enjoy :)