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BelAhdan with Brett T. Robinson’s new book.. Appletopia
In 2011 by one estimate the most photographed landmark in New York City was not Rockefeller Center or Times Square; it was the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue. The shimmering glass cube is otherworldly. The $7 million structure stands thirty- two feet high and features a glass spiral staircase wrapped around a glass elevator. A glowing Apple logo floats in the center of the cube. Inside the store, there are no shelves or boxes, just wooden tables with Apple’s glowing products on display. Faithful consumers wander the cavernous interior admiring Apple devices in a virtual “cathedral of consumption.”
In his novel Notre-Dame de Paris, Victor Hugo’s archdeacon looks up at the Notre-Dame Cathedral with a book in his hand and says, “This will kill that. The book will kill the edifice.” Hugo explains the archdeacon’s comment this way:
Top ten traveling advisories for Arab/ Muslim Americans
Top ten traveling advisories for Arab/ Muslim Americans
For a safe flight please
10. Have a clean shave
9. Don’t ask for a helal meal
8. Leave the Qur’an at home, there is another holy book in every hotel room, same stories.
7. Don’t listen to Arabic music on the flight
6. If they ask you to take your shoes off, this is not time to pray.
5. If there is an emergency landing, chanting “Allahu Akber, could be deadly.
4. If someone ask you how was your flight, it is not necessary to mention hell.
3. Don’t ever go to the bathroom, just sweat it out.
2. Don’t travel in groups, group discount means just that!
1. If they ask you to move to the back of the plane, this is not a Rosa Parks moment.
Have a wonderful flight and good luck..
