Tweet By Ahmed Tharwat I took up golfing right after realizing that I couldn’t play soccer anymore, couldn’t run, so I took walking as a sport, besides as a Muslim I wanted to be assimilated. Growing up in Egypt I had never had a chance to play this illusive game or even come close to being on a golf course. Golf is still an individualistic and very much a disciplined game for someone who played and lived for a long time with the game of proximity and improvisation: the game of soccer. Golf needs a conservative mindset that uses linear thinking. Soccer is more liberal that requires a nonlinear mindset. GOLF…
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Police Brutality… from Cairo to Minneapolis!
Tweet POLICE BRUTALITY… FROM CAIRO TO MINNEAPOLIS Shannon Stapleton/Reuters By Ahmed Tharwat You know the situation here is bad when family and friends in Egypt are worried about me because of police brutality and not Islamophobia. The latest tragic shooting of police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge is changing the conversation and debate on police brutality and racism in this country. A cop in Cleveland implicated President Obama “….the president of the United States has blood on his hands that he will not be able to wash off.” Even a black Police Sheriff in Baton Rouge thinks Black Lives Matter is a terrorist organization. In an election year…
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Top 10 things that may last longer than a Turkish Coup
TweetTop 10 things that may last longer than a Turkish Military Coup 10. Traffic jams 9. Viagra 8. Smirk on Gingrich’s face 7. Time Al-Sisi spends dying his hair.