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wak wak, kikikiki.. and the face of neo-Arab music
Deconstructed Life
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I have never laughed like I did today
Click here and make sure that you watch the last minute at least.. although I really recommend that you watch the whole thing.
Selective Memory
Deconstructed Life
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in one month, Abdelmou3een mallou7i dies, Abdelsalam 3ujaili dies, and Muhammad Al-Maghoot dies.. only Al-maghoot gets the appropriate mourning..

in the same period, a few years ago, Sa3dalla wannous dies along with Fate7 Al Mudarres in the same year..
60 years....
Bits & Bites of Syria
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60 years, Syria has been in independence of any foreign control over the country and independence of any existence of non-national sovereignty.60 years, Syrian people have been having independence in which, they didn’t feel independent.
ميليس المتورط.... كاتب الماني يطرح في الاسواق كتابه الجديد عن سوريا ... و
My Blog
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كشف كتاب ألماني جديد النقاب عن اتهامات جديدة لجهاز المخابرات العسكرية الإسرائيلية بالتورط في عملية اغتيال رئ
Homsi Pope!!?? Homsi Easter!!!
Across Syria & Inside Homs
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Bittersweet, raising my glass up high..For you, homeland!
Fille de Damas
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You can't find people like Almaghout. We were lucky to have him the while we did.
It feels like all the great men like him, Zakaraya Tamer, and Mamduh Adwan, they all left now about the same time..And sure there will be new great people, but not from the same caliber.
They were sad and complaining like the rest of us about many things here, but because of them I am still very much prouder of this place.
It's Been a Long Time
MFLS
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I haven't post a single word in the last month and half and honestly I don't feel like it now either, not that I am in trouble or anything of that sort :P but it's just I have so much...
!!!!!!!!!!هلك الماغوط
This is me writing ... I write..then I EXIST
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فقد هلك (الماغوط) وذاق حر الموت وشدته، وانتقل من الأمل إلى الأجل، وتحول من المطلع إلى المصرع ،وضُرب بينه وبين شهواته بسور!
نَفَقَ (الماغوط) بعد أن سبَّ العظيمَ الجبار، وتنقصَ الحبيبَ المختار، وبعد ادعى النبوة، وسخر من الكتاب والسنة !
Art on the Apratheid Wall
Earth to Omar
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This one of my favourite photo finds online [via Coffee Beans]
I have a feeling Roba is gonna like these

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قلب يعود للعمل بعد 10 سنوات من الراحة
Earth to Omar
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This is amazing, a girl's heart comes back to life after 10 years. Initially she had problems with her heart, she then got a transplant.
Another Don Quixote joins the hit list
Deconstructed Life
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bash me if you want, flame me if you desire, but even through this whole work swamp I'm in now, I couldn't stay silent in front of this charade, even with my previous decisions to stay clear of politics cos I really don't understand it... but this is starting to defy logic now.. not politics..

but this Ahamdnajad character is working very hard on proving himself a mass murderer.. I hope Iranians put him in jail before he brings death upon them just like Saddam did to his people..

it is a tradition in the middle east to hate the USA, and it is even more common to go with the "My Enemy's enemy is my friend" way of thinking.. so all the cheering and victorious looks I have seen on people's faces after Ahmadnajad's nuclear success declaration shouldn't come as a surprise to me.. but I still can't stand this passive idiotic mentality that glorifies "dying with dignity" instead of plainly being realistic and working hard to stay alive.. what are people so happy about? Another someone giving yet another reason for more wars to happen in our area?

for all the people I have recently spoken to, Ahmadnajad "stood up against the evil Bush administration", he managed to "show those Americans that their will to control the world can't work anymore".. blah blah blah..

BULL-FUCKING-SHIT...

Ahmadnajad just signed a death sentence to all Iranian people, just like Saddam signed another for the Iraqis when he stood up against the whole world.. I mean.. can't people see and learn? look at Iraq now.. can you imagine this war expanded to include Iran? do they think that with the little quantities of plutonium they produced, they can stand against another international collation?

is this really about "sticking it to the man"? or is it a few individuals trying to get into history books as heros? even if that meant sacrificing the whole population of those who elected (or were forced to elect) them??? is it really that hard to understand that HISTORY IS SELECTIVE.. and if those who write it elect to depict you as the bad guy, then your image will be deemed bad to eternity.. even if some people think that you were a hero..
see Joseph Stalin, Salavadore Allende, Fidel Castro, etc.. who (other than frustrated, forced-to-be-socialist middle-eastern) will remember the good deeds they did to their people (if ever)....??? don’t you agree that Hollywood has the stronger end in controlling how history is written?

this is all a big charade.. this new Axis-of-Eastern-Anti-American-coalition is a very dangerous game that everyone is being forced into.. if that game ever goes towards a final stage.. the end is not going to be fairy-tail like... and no one will be left around to write this history everyone is working so hard to become part of.

Have you ever wondered?
Earth to Omar
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I’ll start off with vans. Have you noticed how some vans have a “Sport” edition? There’s the Grand Caravan Sport, the Freestar Sport and the list goes on. What’s sporty about a van? Are car makers hoping that subliminally people will think the van is sporty and thus cool?

leave the final words to the masters
Deconstructed Life
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نص الإعلان رقم 4.بقلم:م: زياد الرحباني

مستمعينا الكرام اليكم في ما يلي الإعلان رقم 4.
وفي العناوين:
Souvenirs of Aleppo
Syria Looks
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Silly question!!!
Bassam in Syria
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How come the Latin nation and linguists could not come with a single letter for the sound "sh"???
Isn't it annoying to have to write two letters for a gen
Flu is every where t
Aleppous
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Flu is every where take care!!!


Now a day's flu is ever. You can't notice a family without this Moda. Somes start to mix between it and bird flu. Symptoms are same. The only difference is the end.
The chamber of secrets is opening
Deconstructed Life
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aaargh.. a few days more and that's it.. my life will be back to Normal.
the Chamber of secrets is up, and is opening in a few hours
(The chamber of secrets is the official title of the responsive architecture installation I am working on now...)
after spending what adds up to 19 hours of my life in Concordia over the weekend..
perfecton
purple rain...you've washed my pain away
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finding yourself in a perfect union is such a blessing...
to wake up every morning and look inside your heart, and find your other half tucked in safe and
A Treason Draft, Still Valid.
My Stupid Corner
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I posted this exactly 10 months ago...

I just finished reading Muhammad MAGHOUT's latest book.. "East of Eden, West of God... - شرق عدن، غرب الله..."... all I know is that I have to talk about it.. I have to say sth.. the only problem is that I can't... I wish i had the ability to describe feelings, paint them.. I can't.. I can only scream them out.. this bitterness that rolls all over u when reading this book.. bitterness is the keyword for this compilation... I donno... the only ppl who would realy understand what I'm talking about.. is those who had read his "I Will Betray My Country - سأخون وطني"...

أيها الوطن الغارق في التفاهات
لن أنقذك مهما كان عندي من وسائل
فلطالما أسأتَ إليَ
من الرأس حتى أسفل القدم
حرمتني رؤية النجوم
تأمل الأفق
انتظار الفجر
رائحة الخبز
رسائل الحب
هدايا الأعياد
وحتى النوم على الرصيف
كنت تدفعني دفعاً
بجبالك وسهولك وثرواتك
للجنون
للمصحات العقلية
ومعسكرات الإبادة
وأنا أسترضيك
وأستعطفك
والآن تريد أن أنظف ما تحتك وفوقك من خراب
وقد حذرتك مراراً
بأن الزمن ليس ساعة حول معصمك
أو قبعة على رأسك
أو سوطاً بيدك
أو حاجباً أمام مكتبك
عفواً
ليس عندي وقت أضيعه فعندي موعد هام
مع عاهرة!
ومصابة بالإيدز والزهايمر.
فمت بغيظك...

First trip of the year... How does London sound?
Earth to Omar
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As I mentioned earlier I’m almost done my work term and I’ll be returning back to school for the summer. Usually the university allows at least one week between work and school, but since the winter term is short, this time we only get a weekend separating school from work. I managed to get one week off, but the rest of my friends are stuck working until the end. Usually when we have a week off, we plan a road trip somewhere, but this time a road trip was not an option.

So… I was complaining to my parents on how the one week “vacation” will be extremely boring, with nothing to do and nowhere to go, then suddenly my dad said “why don’t you go to England?” And that was it! I was sold on the idea right away. Today I got my plane tickets, and two weeks from now I will be on a plane heading towards London. The closest I’ve been to London was Heathrow airport. Every time we landed there, I admired the city from the sky, but never got the opportunity to actually see it up-close. This will be an experience to remember.

Aleppo Spring
Syria Looks
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Coming Soon
Cocktail
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After about more than 20 years of restoration works, Citadel of Damascus is about to be opened to the public in June 2006.
Aleppo Spring
Syria Looks
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Birth of the Syrian American Congress
Levantine Dreamhouse
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The political turmoil in Syria over the past year has mobilized the Syrian expatriate community to form the Syrian American Congress in September 2005.
I Appreciate
The Earth Becomes My Throne
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When you are a young red-cheeked little kid in a cruel big world, where feelings have lost their meanings, you start learning about love, passion, envy, remorse, anxiety and how to be a worse person to roam around the land and spread all that hate.
But what is even worse, that you forget about the basic instincts of survival, anger, and appreciation.
I appreciate the savage and beautiful worlds that were created in six days, and I appreciate more that creator.
I appreciate the one that took care of me for two decades with two generous kind hands and a motherly love that raised me up and up to the highest sky...
Long Time.... No See (aka: chatting, taxes, شوف الواوا, and the mourning literature)
Bassam in Syria
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I know I have been away for a long time now. And those who have been keeping up with me are now forgetting to pass by. I don't blame them, I have almost forgotten.
To start with, I haven't been busy more than normal lately; in fact I wish I were. But there hasn't been much thing to write about. No new experiences. But I think I can come up with some new events. And I will try to summarize what was going on with me over the past two weeks or so.
First of all, I transformed to Batman. The first half of the day is killed by sleep. As I stay late till 4 or 5 AM, I am bound to wake up late too. And lately there wasn't any work for me in the morning, so I'm enjoying it. If you wanna ask what do I do at night... god bless the video chat, a totally good invention, brings close all the elements that exist, except the one you want... a sweet killer in other words.
I am done with my taxes too. Not the Syrian taxes, those do not exist really. But as a part-year employee in USA I had to file my taxes before the 15th of this month. Now that was a pain in the ass. I have read tons of forms and publications in addition to using a couple or more tax softwares, and when I thought I got it, I found out I was an asshole. It is the first time I do it myself you know. Previously accountants took care of it; they did the job, but in retrospect they sucked. I am happy to announce that I think I did it, for free too.
Sudoku has taken some of my time. Like any new toy or gadget you buy, the first weeks are spent in admiring it then the brightness fades. Sudoku is a mental game in which you have to fill empty squares with numbers. Although these puzzles seem silly but some of them are really bad. That took out some time too, but now is, as mentioned above, fading.
What else... Haifa Wehbe released her number one hit: "شوف الواوا" and in it the lyrics reads as follows:

شوف الواوا بوس الواوا خلي الواوا يصح
لما بستو طاب الواوا صار الواوا بح

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