My bad experience with team work projects

25 August, 2005

Whenever I remember that this semester I’ll be having at least 4 team projects I get crazy! I hate team projects. I have conducting interviews or even distributing questionnaires in public places.

One of my many very bad experiences with team work is the difficulty I face when interviewing managers and finding a free hour in their busy schedules.
Actually, I have never been humiliated in my life by a stranger. But one incident happened with me when I went to interview the marketing manager of an air line company in Sharjah. Our human resource project was on that company that I will not mention its name. My colleagues were “BUSY” so I decided to skip the marketing class and interview the lady with whom I took a previous appointment.

You can’t imagine how miserable the interview went! Do you know why? It’s because I was 10 or 15 minutes late although I woke up at 6 AM to practice! Ok I can’t deny that it was my own fault that I didn’t know the exact location of the company. I have been told that the comp. offices are behind Sharjah Airport. I kept driving around the airport trying to find the com. But I couldn’t. On that day I drove crazily that I took a speed ticket. After being stressed out for long minutes because I didn’t reach on time, I found the right location.

After all that, I have not welcomed by the head of marketing department as I expected. She was so mean. I will never how she was looking to me. She kept giving me short and useless answers. At first, she told me that I have 10 min only although we have agreed to 30 the day before! Oh my God! Her body language was enough to understand that she wished if she can throw me out of her office!


I asked my questions very quickly coz I figured out that she was neither cooperative nor polite. While leaving her office she said “better to reach on time next time or call at least”. She adds “better be more prepared as well”. Her shocking words were falling like stones on my head. I will never ever forget that day. On that day I realized that the real world is different and harsh. It’s not the pinky world that I wish to live in. I told my self WELCOME TO THE BUSINESS WORLD.

My bad experience with team work projects

Whenever I remember that this semester I’ll be having at least 4 team projects I get crazy! I hate team projects. I have conducting interviews or even distributing questionnaires in public places.

One of my many very bad experiences with team work is the difficulty I face when interviewing managers and finding a free hour in their busy schedules.
Actually, I have never been humiliated in my life by a stranger. But one incident happened with me when I went to interview the marketing manager of an air line company in Sharjah. Our human resource project was on that company that I will not mention its name. My colleagues were “BUSY” so I decided to skip the marketing class and interview the lady with whom I took a previous appointment.

You can’t imagine how miserable the interview went! Do you know why? It’s because I was 10 or 15 minutes late although I woke up at 6 AM to practice! Ok I can’t deny that it was my own fault that I didn’t know the exact location of the company. I have been told that the comp. offices are behind Sharjah Airport. I kept driving around the airport trying to find the com. But I couldn’t. On that day I drove crazily that I took a speed ticket. After being stressed out for long minutes because I didn’t reach on time, I found the right location.

After all that, I have not welcomed by the head of marketing department as I expected. She was so mean. I will never how she was looking to me. She kept giving me short and useless answers. At first, she told me that I have 10 min only although we have agreed to 30 the day before! Oh my God! Her body language was enough to understand that she wished if she can throw me out of her office!


I asked my questions very quickly coz I figured out that she was neither cooperative nor polite. While leaving her office she said “better to reach on time next time or call at least”. She adds “better be more prepared as well”. Her shocking words were falling like stones on my head. I will never ever forget that day. On that day I realized that the real world is different and harsh. It’s not the pinky world that I wish to live in. I told my self WELCOME TO THE BUSINESS WORLD.

Some Thoughts

After tomorrow will be the first day of the new academic year. I don’t feel like missing the university or the books. Again I will have to get up early. Stare at the closet for about two hours to find something to wear. The worst part of the tragedy is the traffic jam. And of course you don’t know how the traffic looks like in this country. Thank God that I am not living in Dubai, the most crowded city in this country. If you live in Sharjah but work in Dubai, you will need about 2 hours to reach your work place on time. That means approximately 4 hours or more are wasted from your day. That’s why Dubai government is about to build an infrastructure for rail roads. This project will be done by 2009 I guess. They expect that the number of benefited residents from this service will reach 1,300,000 riders daily.

I don’t know how secure this service will be. London’s bomb that targeted the rail roads scared me a lot. In my point of view, having rail roads in Dubai would be a target for terrorists! I know that UAE is the most stable and secure country in the Middle East but I am still afraid that one day UAE would be attacked by terrorists. I hope that this day never comes. This world sounds unsecured at all. No place is safe. Terrorist attacks targeted almost all the countries in the globe starting with US, Britain, and other some western countries ending with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, Morocco, and Egypt. The nightmare of being one of the victims of such attacks controls my mind.

Dose the life mean anything to a human being if he/she doesn’t feel secure? Of course not. I feel sorry for those who lost beloved ones in terrorist attacks. Sometimes I feel sorry for those who themselves called terrorists. They were born like any other human beings with feelings, ambition, dreams, and emotions. They have family as well. They love and hate. They cry and laugh. Why would one kill hundreds of people unless he “thinks” that what he is doing is right or he “was told” that what he is going is justified and right! The problem is that some people implanted in their minds poisonous ideas and beliefs that justify what they are doing. It’s not their fault. All of us are responsible for producing such personalities and characters in our societies. Every body holds a responsibly towards those who bomb their bodies to kill others. It might be the fault of their families that have not given an ear to their problems or have never known how they were living or with whom they mix. Moreover, if the governments don’t take care of their youths by solving their problems don’t ever wonder about how easy hunts these youths are.

It might be the fault of the super power countries that never put an end or at least find solutions to the poverty, illiteracy and other economical and social problems that some countries suffer from.

Please don’t think that I am defending terrorists but there must be tens of reasons that made them embrace their wrong beliefs. Unless the root of the problem is solved, terror will be the nightmare that threatens every one, every where, anytime.

The Palestinian Refugees: A Story That Never Ends

Letter on the position of the
Palestinian refugees

November 17, 1949


This letter from the chairman of the United Nations ns commission for Palestine to the secretary-general describes the stark conditions of the refugees in the wake of the 1984-49war. It inspired the formation of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for the Palestinian refugees in the Near East.


The problem

The Arab refugees-nearly three-quarters of a million men, women and children-are the symbol of the paramount political issue in the Near East.
Their plight is the aftermath of an armed struggle between Arabs and Israelis, a struggle marked by a truce that was broken and armistice from which a peace settlement has not emerged.
Before the hostilities in Palestine these families lived in that section of Palestine on the Israeli side of the present armistice lines. Abandoning their homes and villages, their fields and orange groves, their shops and benches, they fled to nearby Arab lands. Tens of thousands are in temporary camps; some are in caves; the majority have found shelter in Arab towns and villages, in mosques, churches, monasteries, schools, and abandoned buildings. Some seventeen Jewish refugees, too, fled from their homes in and around Jerusalem and territories on the Arab side of the armistice lines. They entered into Israel where most of them have now been absorbed. . . .

On 11 December 1948 the General Assembly adopted a resolution stating: “. . . that the refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbors should be permitted to do so at the earliest possible date, and that compensation must be paid for the property of those choosing not to return. . . .”

The same resolution established a consolation commission for Palestine to negotiate a settlement of outstanding differences between Israel and Arab States of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi-Arabia, Syria and Yemen.
No settlement has been reached.

The Arab refugees have not been able to return to their homes because Israel will not admit them. Israel has to date offered to repatriate only 100,000 and only as a part of a general peace settlement of all other issues.
The Arabs refugees have not been able to gain a livelihood in the Arab lands where they are because there is insufficient opportunity for them to do so.

The Arab refugees have not yet received compensation for the property they abandoned, nor have the Jewish refugees in their turn.
The refugees are still on relief.
United Nations funds so far subscribed for the feeding of refugees will not last through the winter.


Recommendations

In the light of these findings, the Economic Survey Mission* makes the following recommendations, which are explained later in the report. . . .

3. An agency should be established to organize and, on or after 1 April 1950, direct, the programmes of relief and public works herein recommended.**



* The UN Economic Survey Mission was deputed by the Conciliation for the Palestine to examine economic conditions in the Middle East.
**this became the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for the Palestinian refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).


Source: CHARLES D. SMITH, PALESTINE AND THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT, pg256-257, Fourth Edition, 2001.




This document has been taken from an interesting book that sheds the light on the following perspectives:

Ø The Middle East and Palestine to 1914
Ø Ottoman society, Palestine, and the origins of Zionism, 1800-1914
Ø World war I, Great Britain, and the peace settlements, 1914-1921
Ø Palestine between the wars: Zionism, the Palestinian Arabs, and the British Mandate, 1920-1939

Ø War world II and the creation of the state of Israel, 1939-1948
Ø The beginning of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: the search for security, 1949-1957
Ø From Suez to the six-day war, 1957-1967
Ø War and the search for peace in the Middle East, 1967-1976
Ø Lebanon, the west bank, and the Camp David accords: the Palestinian Equation in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1977-1984
Ø From pariah to partner: the PLO and the Quest for peace in the global and regional contexts, 1984-1993

Ø Israeli-Palestinian/Arab negotiations and agreements, August 1993-March 2000


The letter illustrates the situation of the Palestinian refugees who suffer from 1948 till this moment. No one is willing to put an end to their suffering. Regardless of what they lost starting from security, lands, homes, and a good future for their kids, they have been humiliated and insulted by every body. Although the United Nations resolution allows the Palestinian refugees to return back to the land that they have been thrown from by force, Palestinian refugees can’t return back. The international community is silent, the United Nation can’t enforce its resolutions, the PLO is paralyzed, and the Arab countries can’t do anything if the people who are themselves must do something are paralyzed as well. So what is the solution? Why do we have to pay the price twice!! I want an answer.

I feel that we as refugees are dumped both by the PLO and the Arab countries. We can’t get nor Palestinian passports neither the citizenship of the Arab countries in which we live! I feel that we have no identity. No future. You can’t imagine how Palestinian refuges suffer when it comes to visas and traveling. They are not allowed even to visit some other countries. For example, my mom hasn’t seen her sister since the first gulf war, that’s mean about 14 years although she lives in Kuwait near UAE! My poor aunt is dying to come to UAE at least for 2 weeks to see us and her sister. Is there any rule in humanity bans two sisters from seeing each?

I have seen long time ago a program about the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. Oh my god. What I saw was unbelievable. Animals can’t live in such situations then how about human beings! No Clean water. No electricity! No Education! Unemployment! What a life! They live in verrry small rooms built of broken wood and asbestos which is not healthy at all. Imagine their situation in the winter then. I keep telling my self that I would have been one of them. Their homeless kids have one dream. It’s only one dream. Although it’s pinky and optimistic, it sounds to be impossible which is returning back to their homes in Palestine. These kids might be asking themselves the reasons behind living in camps and nasty districts separating them from the rest of the society as if they are viruses that spread diseases. No one will answer their question. They will wait till they grow up and figure out that they were born Palestinians that’s why they must suffer the loss of identity and land.

Finally as it was said, every one is born in his/her country except the refugee whose homeland is born in his/her heart.

Questioning the unquestioned

24 August, 2005

Well in my point of view, the Palestinian authority is trying to get advantage of the disengagement process as if the peace talks led to Israeli withdrawal from Gaza Strip. Every one must realize that it’s the military resistance that led to making the Israeli government understands that its presence is Gaza is costly. By withdrawing from Gaza, Israel aims at establishing normal relationships with the Arab countries.

Hamas is not a terrorist organization. It represents a slice of the Palestinian society who believes that the peace talks did nothing for them. The Palestinian authority had nothing to do during the previous years but putting the money of donations in its pocket. It did nothing for the millions of refugees scattered in Lebanon’s, Syria’s, Jordan’s tents, and other Arab and foreign countries all over the world. It also did nothing for the thousands of the Palestinian prisoners in the Israel. I want to know one thing which is what the Palestinian authority did for the Palestinians’ interest! Why can’t the Palestinian refugees vote in the coming elections if it is claimed that the elections will be run in a democratic atmosphere? Where is the democracy in time I see the representatives of different political parties keep attacking each other in the media and on the TV channels accusing each other of having hidden agendas? Well I guess that the coming elections will have the final word. Abbas must not ignore that some political parties that believe in the military resistance have popularity in the Palestinian society and must not forget that the majority of the Palestinians believe in the armed resistance as the only way to gain freedom, return back the stolen land, free the Palestinian prisoners, and establish an independent state.

In my personal opinion, Abbas is playing on both lines. On one hands, he tries to polish his image in front of his people by giving promises that he can’t do in order to gain their Palestinian’s acceptance and trust. For example, he claims that Jerusalem will be the capital of the future Palestinian state. Well its sounds that he is so optimistic about this wish. On the other hand, he plays the role of the peace man who believes that negotiations will work with Israel. In short, his strategy or tactics sounds ambiguous to me since what he says to both sides contrasts what he is doing on land. For instance, one day you find him with the political resistance. The other day you hear him refusing “Terrorism”! It seems that nowadays each one has his/her own definition for terms such as “Freedom”, “occupation”, and “terrorism”.


After all, the next period will be so sensitive and important for both the Palestinians and Israelis.

Sooner or Later men will realize that admitting equality is the definite fate that they can’t escape from

23 August, 2005

As a part of my thoughts about the Arab women’s rights, I believe that every woman anywhere in this part of the world must be so educated about her rights in the society she lives in. knowing your duties and rights is the first step in defending our selves. Here comes the role of the education and the schools in enlightening females and teaching males the principle of equality between man and woman.

During one of my summer classes, our Mass Communication professor invited us to divide the class into two groups where the males sat on one side and the females sat on the other. It was an open discussion in which each group asked whatever questions the group members wanted to the opposite sex. As females, the first question to the guys was why would guys do things that their sisters (or females in general) are not allowed to do?

One of the shocking comments that I have heard from one of the guys that MAN and WOMAN are never equal.”They can’t be equal!” he said! L
I said to my self Oh My God if an educated guy who is studying at one of the important universities in the country says that, then what about the rest of the males who might be less educated, less affluent, have never traveled to Western countries, or have never mixed with the opposite sex? I told my self what a bright future is waiting our countries?! Well his claim was that the Men are more physically capable than women! I told him so what?? Some animals are more physically capable than human beings, but that doesn’t make them smarter or more valuable than us. Part of my response was that Arab women nowadays invaded every field and you can see them working as a judges-in some Arab countries the woman is still not allowed to be a judge-, lawyers, drivers, businesswomen, artists..etc.

No matter what that idiot guy said or no matter how our cultural beliefs constrain us from being ourselves; I still believe that women are equal to men. In my life I saw women work more hours that their husbands. They also come back home to find other responsibilities waiting for them. After that they tell us that we are not equal! LLet them try to hold for a short period of time half the responsibilities that a mother holds, then I am quite sure that they well thank God day and night for not being a woman.

The Faked Truth

22 August, 2005

Today I would like to talk about women’s rights in this part of the region, the Middle East. Unfortunately, many of the society sectors are deceived by the slight and margin achievements done by some of Arab women as if by these accomplishments the Arab women have been librated, which is not true. You know why, because the societies themselves are refusing any changes or advancement with regard to the women’s right. If a woman became a member of the parliament, that doesn’t mean that the rest gained their rights.
In some Arab families, the girl is not only under the microscope of the family and the relatives but also under the eye of the neighbors and the whole society. In the majority of Arab society, men can do whatever they want to do but women can’t even think about doing things against the families’ out-dated tradition. What you wear, what you say, what you do, where you go, with whom are you hanging out all are under the rules of our families. I can’t figure out when are going to get our rights? When are we going to be independent? When we are going to be WHAT WE WANT TO BE NOT WHAT OUR TRADITION AND SOCIETY WANT US TO BE? Some Arab girls, my self included, feel that they are living in a prison or a cage where they are obligated to do things they don’t believe in. What a hell. We are paying the cost of living in male-oriented society! What I really what to concentrate on during the next period of my life is to publish papers and conduct studies about the Arab women’ right because as a victim of such stupid handcuffs I want to voice the Arab women’s problems, internets, and ambitions.

Human beings are born to be what they want regardless of gender, religion, and culture.

A Difficult night

Today was really difficult and full of sadness and problems with my mom who whatever I do to get along with her I fail. It’s really disappointing to fail in communicating with the people who you share every single moment with them.

I had nothing to do but to break every single item in my room. I started with the mugs, glasses, dolls, all the vases, the lamp “I’ll spent the night in the darkness”, then I moved to the things that were on the wall even the wall watch didn’t escape from the madness that I had in that hour. I smashed every thing that my sight fell on. The artificial flowers that I had in my room turned into tiny pieces even the vase that my mom kept it for around a decade or more was from the pastJ. I do also feel sorry for the mirror of the closet that was broken! Some pieces of the floor were broken as well because of the heavy stuff that I threw on the floor.

I really felt fine after what I did. I felt that all was kept for a long time was released. Although it’s not a healthy habit, its one of the ways that makes me feel ok. Other things that I usually do when I get angry or mad are dancing or listening to the radio or writing what bothers me on a sheet of paper since the option of talking to some one close is quite impossible.

Finally I realized that I can’t spend the light in such a messy room where broken glass fell all the room. So I tried to clean what I did and my sister’s housemaid gave a hand and continued the work.

Well the room is clean now! So I had nothing to do except turning the radio on and listen to a special program broadcast at 10:00 pm. In the program they usually discuss one of the audience’s problems. This night’s problem was about a man whose wife refuses having his mom live with them at the same house. So he doesn’t know how to deal with his wife that he loves a lot.

That story moved some feelings in me. So I ran to my mom who was in her room. I kissed her hands asking her to forgive me and the night ended peacefully.

Victory of Failure

19 August, 2005

I have seen the coverage of the Israeli withdrawal from the occupied Palestinian lands in Gaza. What drives me crazy is the exaggeration of such a step as it will solve the Israeli- Palestinian crisis and bring peace to the region.

As many know it, the reality behind the withdrawal from Gaza is that Israel sees the occupation very costly in the light of the brave Palestinian resistance. So it’s not like what it’s imagined by the media as a positive step to show the good attitude towards Palestinians.

While I have been watching reports broadcast on different TV channels about how sad the Israeli settlers, I was really surprised. They have been pictured as victims leaving lands that they assume they own while historically and lawfully speaking they own nothing. Even the UN laws state that the Israeli settlements established on the Palestinian territory in Gaza Strip and West Bank are illegal. It sounds that the Israeli settlers who were enjoying their life in their illegal settlements forgot that those settlements were built on lands whose ownership goes to Palestinian farmers who are living on each other in small refugee camps. It’s really weird to cry for losing something you stole from somebody else!

Their barbaric spirit does not stop at this stage only but it continues to attacking innocent Palestinian citizens as what happened when one Israeli settlers killed three innocent Palestinians in the west bank. The story doesn’t end at this point; I have seen some concerns by the Palestinian authority about the pollution done by the Israeli settlers before leaving their settlements. There is certainty that the underground water and land have been polluted intentionally! This of course needs long long years till this underground water goes back to its nature. Moreover, it was reported the incidents of steeling stones from these lands. This is regardless of the amount of water that was wasted by the Israeli settlers while the Palestinian citizens were in need of each tiny drop!

So to those who have been fooled by that the Israeli withdrawal as if it’s an optimistic step towards peace and prosperity I would like to say that Gaza is still occupied when its sea, air, ports, Gaza airport, and its routes that connect Gaza to the West Bank are still occupied and are still in the Israeli iron hand. No peace without the whole Palestinian lands back. So don’t fool yourself. Wake up and see the truth and reality.

The Black eyeglasses

03 August, 2005

Recently I have read an article about the number of those who commit suicides in China, about 250 hundred yearly. This number does not include the number of people who fail in committing a suicide which is between 2.5 to 3.5 million! What startle those who study the phenomena is that the majority of victims are youth.

What does make a young person put an end to his/her life? What depression is this that makes a person wants to get rid of his/her suffer?

Regardless of the economical, financial, social, or psychological difficulties, lack of faith in God plays a role. In Islam committing a suicide is of the greatest sins that a person can do. Muslims believe that God is who gave life to human beings and he is the only one who decides when to take his/her soul. In Muslims’ beliefs the committers of suicides are never forgiven by God, instead they are punished in the hell the same way they ended their lives in the life over and over.

I wonder what the point of view of other religions is with regard to committing a suicide. After all, life nowadays has no value especially when living is such a mess when wars, killing, economical degradation in some parts of this world, political crises, and environmental disasters are the reality that an ordinary citizen has to cope with. So no wonder why some people decide to end their suffering but in the wrong way, at least that what I believe in.

The most funniest incident that I have ever heard of was about an American student who was brilliant and smart at school that commit a suicide because he thought that his girlfriend would dump or leave him because he start losing his hair!

Let’s overcome depression and be stronger. Let’s not give up when failing once or twice. Let’s promise ourselves not to fall in the trap of hopelessness. Let’s take off the black eyeglasses and wear more colorful one.

Sometimes saying is much easier that doing. But let’s try at least.

An Old Friend

Last week, on Wednesday morning, my cell phone rang. I jumped to the phone and looked at the number. It was a strange number that I have never seen. Although I usually don’t answer calls from strange numbers, I answered as if I am expecting someone. A soft voice was on the other line. The lady asked for my name and then told me if I recognized her from her voice. After awhile I said to myself yes I know this voice. I didn’t believe my ears. Yes, she was a friend that I have not seen for four years. She immigrated with her family to Canada so she can study there and get the citizenship at the same time. I knew that she is on short visit. We had a long chat talking about major things that happened with each one of us in the past few years. I was happy to know that she will be coming back to UAE after finishing her study.

We decided to see each other soon before she goes back to Canada. I felt very good after that call. I felt that life is really small and I had some hope to meet my best friends who are living in other countries. One of them will get married very soon!

Oh thanks for technology that we can use to keep touch with beloved ones either through phone or the Internet.

Many Questions

I keep asking myself why we don’t choose our names, who our parents are, how our financial situation is, where we are living in and what our nationality is.

I know that asking such questions are useless and they won’t change our reality. But I can’t prevent myself from thinking in that way. Questioning who we are, what we are living for, and why we are living the way set by other is a right for every human being.

Just accepting what already have been set by others and following orders and instruction imposed by others mean that we are not living at all. It’s not the life that we chose. It’s what others chose. What I mean by others is the family codes, tradition, religious beliefs, and the society in general. Here in the Arab country, tradition, society, and the family play a vital role is determining how the individual’s life will look like. If you are from the type that cares a lot about what others say and think, you life will be a hell especially in this part of the world.

In my university there are a huge number of Saudi females who came to UAE to study. Since they are living in the country alone without restriction or control, you can imagine the space of freedom the have to do whatever they want to do, to go wherever they want to go, and wear whatever they want to wear. I even know that most of them got driving licenses and drive in Dubai and Sharjah, an accomplishment that they can never achieve in Saudi Arabia since women are not allowed to drive. Wondering why?
What astonishes me a lot is that when the semester ends and its time to go back to Saudi Arabia, you see all the Saudi girls in the airport covering themselves from head to toe preparing themselves for their reality saying goodbye to the tight jeans and make up!

Well what a miserable life is this? If anybody from their families has seen them in here they would not differentiate them from westerns. I hope that would not happen otherwise the university will become a battle or a pool of blood.

My point is that tradition and family restrictions in the Arab world on the woman are destroying her psychologically and driving her crazy. We ended up living a life that we don’t want but our tradition and family want!

I have no clue how far this situation is going to last?! But I am sure that things will never stay as are. I hope that this day is not really far.

Where is justice?

Few days back I am have seen a report on TV about three hundred Jewish immigrants who arrived to the occupied Palestinian lands which IS KNOWN AS “Israel”. The immigrants were coming from France while the Israeli government is expecting other 3000 thousands to arrive later this year.

My question is simple? Who does have the absolute right to go back to Palestine? Are they who have been expelled since 1948 from their lands and houses throwing them in camps near the borders? Or are they who have no historical roots in Palestine scattered all over the world but claim that Palestine is the Promised Land by God?

Millions of Palestinian refugees who have been derived from their farms and houses are suffering in camps in Lebanon, Syria, and other Arab and foreign countries. They have the all the right to go back to their lands. Some Palestinian elders living in refugees’ camps who are in their late sixties and seventies are still having the keys of their homes from which they have been thrown out in 1948. Who will answer their questions? Who will tell them that their homes have been replaced by Israeli Settlements? Who will tell them that their fate is to suffer and to pay the cost of being Palestinians? Who will tell them that the power balance is not equal in the world and who has the right doesn’t mean that he can enjoy that right?

Where is the role of the Palestinian authorities in struggling for the refugee’s rights? Few weeks back President Abbas didn’t mind that countries give citizenship to the Palestinian refugees living in these countries?! That means that the Palestinian authority is giving up the file of the refugees?!

That’s a part of American and Israeli propaganda to make the new generation of Palestinians forget their roots, forget the stolen rights, the stolen lands, but they must remember that whatever passports and citizenships will be given to the Palestinians, they will never forget that there is something in our blood called Palestine. By the way, the Palestine that I am talking about is not what the whole world confesses it is. It is not Gaza Strip and West Bank only. It’s not only 22 % that is left from the original land. It’s from the north to the south, from the east to the west; it includes Haifa, Yafa, Jerusalem, and every single acre of the occupied lands in the 1948. If they have the political power, we have the historical rights. If they have biological bombs, mass destruction weapons, and F 16, we have the faith in God, faith in our rights, and more than that the faith in the stone!!!

I would like to say thanks for those who sold the Palestinian refugee’s rights. So, Thank you… your names will be written with pride in the history book!

Dreams Start Small

In one of my advertising classes during the summer, our professor asked us to use a plain paper and create something innovative. The majority of the students created things that we used to make when we were children such as plans and boats. When my turn came, I showed the class what I have made. It was a box. I don’t know what made me say that this box represents my life. Unexpectedly, the professor asked me to explain what I meant. Promptly I replied that it shows how close my life is in time I do my best to get out of the box!

Well I guess my response was exactly reflecting my state of mind and the issue of being myself. The walls of the box life symbolize the restrictions and constrains in my real imposed by others and society.

If every one of us was given a plain paper to use it in drawing or creating something out of it, the final product would reflect the psychology of that person.

One of the students made the trade center in Dubai with a slogan written on it “Dreams Start Small”. The slogan is still ringing in my ears wondering why. I even wrote that statement on a sheet of paper and stacked it on a wall in my room. Who doesn’t have dreams? Who doesn’t dream of making the dreams true? But how many work hard to make their dreams true?

Sometimes one’s situations play a role in determining at least the direction to which the person moves toward the future. But after all, to what extent the person’s willingness to be something important determines how far the person can succeed in making the impossible attainable. Who wants to make the sand gold can do this simply because the individual wants to do so. Whenever we decide to do something that we believe in nothing can stands as an obstacle because all obstacles would be overcome.