One Palestinian Pound, originally uploaded by malyousif. I visited my sister Maha’s workplace (Palace Enterprises) this morning and had the good fortune to also visit one of the owners of the company, Waleed Al-Rayyis, who is an avid currency collector and a pleasure to talk to. One of the rare notes he’s got in the …
Month: July 2006
Sri Lankan Mask, originally uploaded by malyousif. This one is supposed to bring you good luck, at least that’s what I remember the guy said at the stall in Colombo, while on a quick one night stop-over ferrying refugees from Iraq during the Iraq/Kuwait war. I lived on a Boeing 767-300ER as a resident engineer …
So a Palestinian faction kidnaps an Israeli soldier and all hell breaks loose. Tens of Palestinians get killed, hundreds homeless, Palestinian ministers get kidnapped, houses get demolished, orchards get destroyed, all to secure the release of one single kid who is not yet 20. Hizbollah obviously thinks that they can do better.. so they go …
minus.human, one of my all-time-favourite Bahraini girl-bloggers needs your help. Please go and give her a hand in achieving just one of her needs before she snuffs it (after a very long life of course) and that is to get linked. So if you have a blog (or an influence in one, as in entering …
Let’s see… the UN says that terrorism is defined as: criminal acts intended or calculated to provoke a state of terror in the general public, a group of persons or particular persons for political purposes are in any circumstance unjustifiable, whatever the considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or other nature that …