علا عليوات's Blog, page 13
July 11, 2014
Who to Tell, How to Tell
I don’t know which is harder: following the news on Gaza or following the news on the news on Gaza. It wouldn’t take a keen observer to notice that the coverage by the Western media to the aggression on Gaza has been biased in favor of the aggressors and, as we have seen through the recent infamous blunder by ABC’s Diane Sawyer, it wasn’t very subtle in that regard. Sawyer mentioned rockets “showering” over Israel and misrepresented Palestinian victims as “Israeli family trying to salvage wha...
July 10, 2014
دعاء واعتداء
عزيزي المسلم اللي طول نهارك بتشارك أدعية عالفيسبوك وغيره: عمرك سمعت عن إشي اسمه الاعتداء في الدعاء؟
خلينا نتفق على إشي، الدعاء إشي رائع ومطلوب وهو عبادة بحد ذاته. بس للتوضيح:0
الدعاء مش ضروري يكون في سجع وقافية، يعني تكلف وصنعة في إشي المفروض يكون طالع من القلب، مش زابطة، وعلى فكرة السجع مكروه في الدعاء
وبما إنه المفروض يكون طالع من القلب فمش ضروري الدعاء يكون عبارة عن نص واحد كاتبه وحاطه على صورة وردة ولا غروب شمس عشان تقعد تسمع فيه كإنه درس محفوظات، متل العدد المهولمن الأدعية المتداولة عالفيسب...
June 26, 2014
ثقافة الكراهية
ما الذي حدث حتى أصبح القتل هيناً؟
أظنني أعرف. عرفته اليوم وأنا أقرأ خبر تشييع جثمان نتالي الربضي – عليها الرحمة ولأهلها الصبر- إذ بعد أن يدرج المقال شهادة مديرها بأنها “من أكثر الشخصيات الجديرة بالاحترام ممن قابلهم في حياته، وأنها تتمتع بذكاء عالٍ، وتتصف بالجدية في العمل” يمضي لذكر...
June 19, 2014
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
So today at the gym there was this really beautiful baby, apparently she was the daughter or niece of one of the trainers there, and she kept moving from hand to hand, and it wasn’t only her cute face, big green eyes or lush black her, I realized as I passed by her on my way out that it was the way she smiled back at anyone who smiled at her, with such excitement and happiness as if she couldn’t believe someone is actually smiling at her, although everyone did and so much more. Actually, if s...
June 15, 2014
كأس العالم، وقصص قديمة أخرى
ما علينا…0
بعيداً عن الجانب المظلم لكأس العالم وفساد الفيفا والمظاهرات في البر...
May 23, 2014
Story of a Ball
Like everything else, this severely worn-out ball has a story of her own.
Chewed u by one too many knocks and countless bangs against stone-solid walls, this little thing was once as colorful as bouncy as it got. Back in the days when my biggest worry was a math exam I had a thing for a rubbery bouncing balls, or “crazy balls” as we called them. I had them in different shapes and colors, and they weren’t just collector’s items for me as I would hit them down hard on the street to see how far u...
March 19, 2014
كائنات غير محترمة
March 4, 2014
جنسية أمي حق “طبيعي” لي
February 21, 2014
قاطع… أو لا تقاطع
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February 12, 2014
Tips for a less Crappy Valentine’s Day
It’s that time of the year again, brace yourself for angry messages showering your timeline on facebook and Twitter condemning Valentine’s and objecting to this practice of singling out one day of the year to celebrate love, this universal notion we should celebrate on daily basis.
Well, that is absolutely right, and I do respect the idea, but I can’t help but think that the motives behind these messages might not be quite in accordance with the spirit of love. Actually, I think that the angri...