Month: July 2005

Mohammed Khalid’s Heroes

On the 6th of this month, we woke up to the news that the Bahrain Charge d’Affairs in Iraq has been shot and wounded in a botched kidnapping attempt. Hassan Al-Ansari’s quick thinking saved his life. In a separate incident, the Egyptian ambassador was kidnapped, and later killed according to reports. Terrorists in Iraq seem …

Ali is right

He was one of the fortunate people who were only minutes off at King’s Cross station to escape the terrorist attacks. Like my brother Hani, they both escaped with minutes to spare. I thank God that they’re fine. Ali is in the UK to attend a seminar on contemporary literature at Cambridge. He also just …

Gardening Friday!

Gardening Friday, originally uploaded by malyousif. With nothing to do on a Friday afternoon with me all alone with the dogs at home, I did what every man does, went out in my PJs and did some gardening playing with my POWER TOOLS! That was about 3 or 4 hours of pure bliss and away …