All through elementary school my parents imposed a very strict rule of going to bed by 8 PM; there was very little room for discussion or talk about it.. Bedtime meant bedtime back then..
8PM was …

I watched with great excitement the events as they unfolded in Tunisia; in all honesty I had very little hope that the events will evolve and reach where it reached today. No matter how much …

Now that the storm has calmed, well at least relatively. I believe it’s time I have my say about this. It’s really starting to annoy the hell out of me; overnight everybody around me became an expert in Iranian politics, and all news agencies, online blogs, even facebook wallposts and notes are now all about how the elections have been rigged in the most stupid way possible.

لا يخفى على المتتبع وسائل الإعلام في البحرين خلال الفترة البسيطة المنصرمة مدى فداحة الإدعائات و الأجندات الطائفية التي أصبحت تنضح بها صحفنا الرسمية اليوم. فبين ليلة وضحاها تخطت مكائن الإعلام الرسمية جميع الخطوط الحمراء …

Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights (BYSHR) is highly concerned by the sufferings of Safia Ahmed Ali, 36 from Al-Deer “Al-Muharraq” village. Safia is homeless and the Ministry of Housing refuses to give her …

Speaking through an American interpreter, Lieutenant David Wallach who is a native Arabic speaker, the Iraqi official related how al Qaeda united these gangs who then became absorbed into “al Qaeda.” They recruited boys born …

في زمن ندر فيه صوت العقل و التعقل في أرض العرب و المسلمين، في زمن تقلص فيه الإبداع الفكري و إستبدلت فيه قيم الإسلام الحق بأخرى جاهلية وقبلية بالية، في زمن تفشى فيه التدين الظاهري …

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I just did the calculations, the US Dollar was depreciated by around 30% since the beginning of 2003 against the Eruo; this means our imports from euro dominated countries are around …

A court in Egypt has declared invalid a presidential order that a group of Muslim Brotherhood members stand trial in a military court.
One of the group, who went on trial last month, is a senior …

I wonder if it was inspired by the wall in the movie “300″, The Guardian reports the construction of a three mile long concrete barrier as a new solution to Iraq’s civil war.
The US military …

There’s “irrational” as in “crazy like a fox” and there’s “irrational” as in “out of touch with reality.” I had very little respect to the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, ever since his early days in …

A British Muslim has been found guilty of soliciting murder during a London rally against cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad.
Umran Javed was also convicted of using words likely to stir up racial hatred at the …

There’s an old saying in Tennessee. I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee, that says: “Fool me once…”
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“… shame on…”.
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“Shame on you…”
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“If fooled, you can’t get fooled again.
The Bushisim above is my personal …