Tweet An Arabic saying goes like this: If you want to die through yourself in the Ocean, You’ll find yourself fighting to survive. You don’t want to kill yourself; you want to kill something inside you!! The world has seen two human tragedies in the ocean, and both were domed. A migrant ship with over 700 people on board drowned off Greece’s west coast; 600 died. “Didn’t I tell you we were going to die? Didn’t I tell you we were already dead?”” a young man talking to his uncle before both drowned and died, a survivor said. The other tragedy, a risky small submarine the side of an SUV,…
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Arab Spring Finally In Algeria, Commentary
Tweet Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the ailing Algerian president whose candidacy has spawned weeks of protests in his tightly controlled nation, announced Monday that he would not seek a fifth term in office. The announcement was a concession to citizens who have turned out in ever-increasing numbers on the streets of Algeria’s cities to demand that Mr. Bouteflika give up plans to extend his 20-year rule. But the same statement also canceled the election that had been scheduled for April, raising questions about how long the president would remain in power. “There will be no fifth term,” a statement released to the official news agency in Mr. Bouteflika’s name said Monday night,…
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Honoring The National Anthem.. and Other Horror Stories!
Tweet Ahmed Tharwat Im going to say this and maybe regret it later, I don’t go to live sporting events in America; football, baseball or basketball,it is not so much because of the smell of hotdogs and beer or the fact that sport here appears more entertainment than being competitive, where people go mainly to consume food and the sport itself, regardless of winning or losing. The concept of a sports fan hasn’t been fully introduced in professional sports yet. A fan is someone who supports a team and hates other teams, he/she acts as if his/her life depends on it, when his team plays, there is no time to…
