Mideast Youth » Reem (Sudan)

10 Americans die in bloody Iraq weekend

Reem (Sudan) — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:48:50 +0000

Atleast Bush is optimistic!

UN Comes to the rescue!

Reem (Sudan) — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 22:01:30 +0000

I got this from a middle-east news website.

Introduction- Reem from the Sudan

Reem (Sudan) — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:12:59 +0000

Hello Mideast Youth:)
My name is Reem, I’m an 18 year old Sudanese ( half nubian/half omdurmanya) currently living in Cairo. I love Cairo and the people here are very friendly but I would love to go back to Khartoum, talk to the very witty 7abobat (grandmothers), walk around the 7ila (neighbourhood), go to the dokan 2 buy pepsi ( its really hot there, you are constantly craving soda n other cold drinks) and go to sub7yat (bridal-dancing) and admire the bride and the special treatment she gets.
I’m a full-time student at the American university in Cairo majoring in Mass communication and minoring in Sociology/theatre and possibly gender studies! I love reading, listening to music, dancing, eating (yes I’m a bit horizontally challenged!), reading books, watching movies, acting ( I have a play coming up!), teaching ( I taught kids last December and I’m teaching refugees now, its part of a program called STAR), writing, reading cosmo and vogue, talking to random strangers, travelling, shopping especially bags (confession: I have over 30 bags, I’m not gonna say the exact number!), I love traditional accessories especially from african countries, the far east, the stan countries and eastern Europe.
I’m also interested in gender studies and women issues. I’m part of a project called The Bussy project, we raise awareness about different women’s issues (especially taboo issues such as rape/sexual harrasment/circumcision etc..). I’m really proud of our work and although, we did face alot of problems and I was criticized many times for being “honest” “blunt” and ” for talking about things that don’t exist except in western societies”.
Reem is very incoherent, she digresses alot, she talks alot, she is always smiling, she is very colorful, she plays the piano, she wants to make documentaries, she is very social, she is a big fat procrastinator, she is incapable of “time-management”, she drinks alot of water, she cant resits galaxy and after eight, she uses lipgloss obsessively, she likes redheads/indian and west african men, she hates hot weather and she loves bollywood.

Suheir Hammad – a proud Arab.

Reem (Sudan) — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:34:40 +0000

Have you heard of Suheir Hammad?
well, she is Arab/American hailing from Palestine. She tackled a very imp issue, the treatment of Muslims and Arabs after 9/11.

Enough said.

Watch the video….

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fhWX2F6G7Y[/youtube]

Wholeheartedly-Sudaniya

Rwanda happened and now Darfur is happening , Do you really care?

Reem (Sudan) — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:25:39 +0000

“a little something I posted on my blog a few days ago”

Have you heard about the Rwandan Genocide? Do you recall what happened in Rwanda in 1994?
Perhaps, you don’t exactly remember what happened during the genocide that lasted approx. 100 days but you probably remember what happened after that. . What do you recall most about it? Most people remember what the international community did, absolutely nothing.
333 1/3 lives were terminated every single hour, 800,000 were killed. All this happened while the world stood around with its hands in its pockets.
So, not a lot of action was taken to stop the Rwandan Genocide but currently, Darfur awareness is all over the place. It seems that the whole world is concerned about Darfur. I read about it everywhere I turn and its the first thing that pops up when you hear the word “Sudan”. The first question I am asked when I mention I’m from the Sudan is “what do you think about Darfur ” or “what is going on in Darfur “.
I’ve read a lot of articles about Darfur and the actions that should be taken there, some of them mentioned the Rwandan Genocide by saying” we allowed this to happen, we should try harder to stop Darfur”. Wait a minute, Do you think that the international community feels guilty after all? Do they think that by helping out in Darfur, they might make-up for their idleness in Rwanda?
The UN troops and the “Operation Turquoise” didn’t stop the genocide from taking place. The soldiers failed to stop the mass murders. Do you think that the UN troops will stop Darfur or secure the region? If you think that by sending the UN troops….Darfur will be stopped and people will be safe again. Then PLEASE dont send any soldiers, why risk their lives? Just send a bunch of housewives and they will do the same job perfectly! They can do whatever they want, pull out the American troops from Iraq and take them to Darfur, send hundreds of European soldiers and even send more African Union troops. By doing so, Are they going to solve the problem?
I dont think our beloved president will allow the troops inside the country, if he wanted to stop Darfur then he would’ve stopped it. Do you think he cares? He definitly didnt show any signs of remorse yet!

Pissed off, Shocked and Confused

Wholeheartedly-Sudaniya