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The 100th name of God
Have you ever asked yourself about the 100th name for God/Allah? It has never occured to meTO EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!For I have always heard that in Islam God has 99 nameand whileI have never been interested enough to know the 99 nameswhich are mostly attributes of GodLike The Merciful, The King, The Creator, The…
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Moderates: Raise your voices for peace – Tag
King Abdullah have been warning the global community over and over again that letting peace slipping from us at this point of time would only help weakening the side of the moderates in the middle east. I personally love what Queen Rania said when she appeared with Opera a year or so ago, and which…
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Sally and Antoinella: Transgenders fighting for acceptance
A philosopher once said ‘Life worths nothing without a cause to fight for’. I just heard Jesse on radio saying it while thinking of Sally and Antoinella , the two transgender women who appeared on Rotana last monday with Wafa’ Al kilnai in her last epsiode of the her popular show ‘Ded Al Tayyar’ (Against…
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Single women and custody
I am following up in newspapers with the news of the government social department actions to deal with the problem of abandoned babies. It seems that they are more open towards facilitating Jordanian married couples to take custody over those babies and provide them with family support. Custody is the acceptable way in an Islamic…
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هيا و ليلى و حواء و آدم
انا ايضا شعرت بالأئارة عند قراءتي الأسطوة اليهوية عن امرأة آدم الاولى ليليث. ليلى يبدو لي اسما اقرب لحقيقتها و لواقعي العربي. لكنني لم استغرب كثيرا لوجود ليلى, لأن ليلى موجودة دائما في كل امرأة اخره. دائما عند وجود آدم و حواء فهنالك حتما ليلى في الصورة , حتى لو كانت ليلى من نسج الخيال,…
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Pulp Magazine: The Gender issue
After Pulp Magazine’s January excellent Internet issue where they interviewed people behind Toot along with Roba (AndFarAway) and Naseem (The Black Iris), they deliver another excellent issue this month with the focus on Gender issues. It is February, the month of Valentine, and while most of the other magazines concentrated on dating and love tips,…
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The reality of my observations
ObserverThat is what I call myselfor at least, that is what I think of myselfbelieving that I ‘observe’ welldepending on my input devicesSight, sound, smell, touch and tasteand my processor (brain)and operating system (DNA? anyone)and data resided in my memory But then my data is mostly based on others outputMillions of other machinesSome still alive,…
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Happy Valentine’s Day
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Thunder of love covering the void
A glossy heart met sparkled eyesBeauty stood in awe Joy and happiness filled the spaceand silence took overAnticipating the thunder of our love Closer we came togatherLips lockedEcstasy drove Cupid insaneCelebrating the quality of his achievmentand thenlight grew from the head of candlescovering all over the worldin a sacred momentWorshipping our love Hands touchedFingers rest…
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A man got his daughter married to a Nabulsi!
A man got his daughter married to a Nabulsi. He warned her, if your husband asks you to turn around, come directly and tell me. For days, the father kept on asking his daughter whether her husband asked her to turn around or not, and she alway replied negatively. But one day and after few…