I want to start blogging this year with a highlight from 2011. Apart from all the noise concerning the revolution et all, I was lucky to attend TEDxCairo at the AUC new campus last year. The event itself was kind of moderate, I didn’t enjoy most of the talks, except for one.. Nada Chatila.

Being such a shy speaker, Nada didn’t impress me at first. I thought she is like the others who exaggerate to impress, and at the end you discover how shallow their ideas are.  read more »

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For some reason today I watched “Forrest Gump”; and throughout the film I was repeating to myself “It’s been a while.”

The truth is I neither remember the last nor the first time I saw “Forrest Gump”. Like, I don’t remember the last time I heard a Back Street Boys song. I don’t remember the last time I was excited about a new release for Boyzon. And I don’t remember the last time I talked about Princess Diana’s unfortunate death and Elton John’s “Gone with the wind”. Do you remember that day? It was 31th of August 1997.  read more »

Sometimes I’d be engaged in an interesting conversation, with interesting people, and all of a sudden I lose interest. All of a sudden I don’t want to talk anymore. I don’t want to share into such mumbo-jumbo.. What difference will it make if my opinion was right, or yours.. What will come out of hours wasted in talks and discussions?.. Will we fix the world’s faults, or will we find a permanent solution to our country’s problems?.. Does it really matter what we, as individuals, believe in? And would it matter if we shared it together?.. Would I be happy if all people are just copies of who I am? Or would you be happy if you felt victorious by providing all the justifications to show one in front of you as ignorant, or doesn’t understand?  read more »