“The Client is Always Right” Her blonde locks falling over her large curious eyes, the 4-year-old blonde child played with the toys in her hand. Her mother, seemingly in a hurry, took away the toys and tucked her baby girl …
Posted in Awareness, Culture, Ethics, Lebanon, Middle East | Tagged Lebanon | Leave a commentHeadlines involving domestic workers in the Gulf often fall into one of two categories: the horrifying or the ‘quirky.’ Reactions to the former – a maid raped, a woman tortured and enslaved – are instantaneous: absolute revulsion. But condemnation of …
Posted in Awareness, Ethics, Gulf, Media, Migrant Workers, Society | Tagged Gulf, migrant rights, Migrant Workers, slavery | Leave a commentPeople the world over cry out for “freedom,” but how often do we sit down and think about what it really means to be free? Over the years, different people the world over embraced different interpretations of “freedom.” Janice Joplin …
Posted in Education, Ethics, Foreign Affairs, Freedom of Speech, Middle East, Philosophy, Politics, USA | Tagged Freedom, Libya, Syria | 2 CommentsPsychology, Field Study Psychology of Criminals in Jail May 2011 I think I started reading psychology in the year 2000 when I was about 15 years old. Psychology helped me a lot in understanding motives and ways of thinking of …
Posted in Atheism, Civil Rights, Egypt, Ethics, Gender, Homosexuality, Sex, Sexism, Society, Taboos | Tagged Egypt, field study, Maikel Nabil, Political Prisoners, prison | Leave a commentIn the seventies and eighties of last century, militant Islamist opposition appeared, which was the strongest of the opposition movements, which was able to challenge the July militarist regime… This opposition reached its peak on October, 1981, when it assassinated …
Posted in Arabs, Censorship, Civil Rights, Current Events, Democracy, Egypt, Ethics, Freedom of Speech, History, Islam, Israel, Nationalism, Politics, Regional Issues, Religion, Society, Taboos, Terrorism, War | Tagged antimilitarism, Egypt, Israel, Maikel Nabil, pacifism | 1 CommentFor a while now and Somalia has been suffering from a critical drought that has caused thousands of Somali to flee to the neighboring countries; Kenya and Ethiopia most of all. Desperately looking for food and water. With so much …
Posted in Activism, Awareness, Bad news, Current Events, Ethics, Regional Issues | Tagged Somalia | Leave a commentA friend of mine brought to my attention a recent article by Ethan Bronner in The New York Times, Where Politics Are Complex, Simple Joys at the Beach. The article describes a group of Israeli women who engage in civil …
Posted in Awareness, Ethics, Middle East | Leave a commentIt seems, at times, that there are no limits to extremism. I guess that’s why they call it “extremism.” The recent murder of Vittorio Arrigoni, age 36, comes to mind, although there are numerous examples to be found in all …
Posted in Awareness, Bad news, Current Events, Ethics, Palestine, Palestine/Israel, Regional Issues | Leave a commentI was asked to write about my take on Salman Taseer’s murder. At this point, I’ve decided that anything is possible. The state of anarchy that humans have reached, anything can happen. And nothing shocks me anymore. For those who don’t …
Posted in Activism, Christians, Demonstrations, Ethics, Human Rights, Islam, Media, Politics, Religion, Ridiculous | Tagged aafiq siddiqui, aasia bibi, blasphemy laws, Mumtaz Qadri, Salman Taseer | 2 CommentsI can recall my marketing class lecture when the lecturer told us an interesting thing about communicating advertisement, i.e. “Whenever you have an idiotic thing to say, just sing it –Jingle”. However, things seem to have changed lately. Now we …
Posted in Civil Rights, Democracy, Ethics, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Islam, Islamophobia, Racism, Religion, Ridiculous | Tagged Australia, Ground Zero Mosque, Islam, Liberalism, mosman, mossman, Muslim, People, Racism, racist, Recreation, Religion and Spirituality, United States | 3 Comments