Fadi Zaghmout فادي زغموت

It is disturbing to watch war leaders connecting current people with old historical nations to inflict a stronger identity and since of belonging to a certain ideology in order to gain more support of the normal street man. Yesterday I watched an interview on Future TV with Waleed Junblat. His position against Iranian and Syrian…

I just came from the Orthodox Swefieh Church in Amman. I had to attend a nice wedding ceremony for a long time school friend. It has been quite sometime since I last went to church as I haven’t been much of a religious person recently. I was a bit happy entering the church after such…

Programming LanguagesA couple of years ago while I was still looking for a job, I had this conversation with a friend of mine where she was telling me about her cousin who works as a programmer. I asked her “What language do they work on?” She went silent for a moment, put her finger on…

People seem to be messed up regarding what is happening in Lebanon these days. The feelings of rage are mixed up with the feelings of sadness and guilt. Everyone watching the news is trying to rationalize his own stand as if it is a personal problem of him. Our history, ideologies, patriotism, religious believes and…

As if I need more confusion in my faith. Someone has just popped up and wrote a comment on my blog claiming to be the real Massiah! The one, millions have been following for hundred of years, is just the Anti-Christ as this new Massiah claims! Seven Star Hand has posted an interesting article about…

I have asked a relgious Christian American about what she thinks of this current war of Israel on Lebanon. Her answer was: We are sad by it, but not surprised, really. We do believe it’s a part of what the Bible refers to as “end times” – the wars and rumors of war, etc… also…

When I was young, the priest who taught me religion at school used to warn us of the devil who is capable of leading us away from God in a very cunny way. My muslim friends where taught by their muslim teacher that the devil can whisper in their ears with bad stuff. We all…

The idea of giving someone’s own life for his land has been injected in my heart since childhood. The feeling of sacrificing is honorable. I have always wondered whether if a real war happens I would be a man enough to fight and give my life to protect my land or not. The idea used…

It always caught my attention these mysterious things. I believe that everything in this world is related somehow, but I am not sure if someone can tell things by reading numbers, a cup of coffe, or a hands palm. Neverthuless, it is a funny practice. I worked up “The Arab Observer“, check what this blog…

I finished reading Yacoubian building novel two weeks ago. It is so interesting to the degree that I kept on reading it continously till I finished it in two days (nearly 6 hours). Alaa Aswani is a brilliant writer, he did reflect social problems in a very good way. Yacoobian building doesn’t differ much than…