Finally they are trending! Yesterday there was censorship over flotilla, today, it showed up as trending topic! Spread the word everyone, let the whole world know who the real terrorists are! Keep it up - we are so technologically advanced these days and this can help in so many ways! Spread the truth While you're at it check the hype on twitter, it's breathtaking.
Trending: Worldwide
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* #4wordsbeforedeath
* #freedomflotilla
* #memorialday
* Mockus
* iPads
* Flotilla
* Quit Facebook
* Cookouts
* Bofo
* Oil Spill
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1. Electronic Intifada intifada
We, from Gaza, call on you to demonstrate and support the courageous men and women who went on the #FreedomFlotilla http://j.mp/9KuDRl 3 minutes ago via Nambu Retweeted by Zeinobia and 7 others
2. Zeinobia Zeinobia
"Photo from Getty Images" via @Daylife - http://www.daylife.com/photo/0duF0ze229597 #Gaza #flotilla 2 minutes ago via web
3. Joshua IsraeliSoldier
'Where is Gilad? Where is Gilad' shouts the protestors 2 minutes ago via TweetDeck
4. Tamer Mowafy kalimakhus
RT @Amiralx: RT @jonjensen: Protesters shouting "Down with Israel!" and praise for Turkey. #freedomflotilla #Cairo #Egypt 5 minutes ago via TweetDeck Retweeted by Zeinobia
5. Engy Ghozlan EngyG
RT @kalimakhus RT @Amiralx: RT @jonjensen: Protesters shouting "Down with Israel!" and praise for Turkey. #freedomflotilla #Cairo #Egypt 4 minutes ago via Nambu
6. Engy Ghozlan EngyG
RT @moselim RT @mrmeit: مصادر: النواب المصريين بخير ، وهم أسري الأن لدي الكيان الصهيوني http://bit.ly/a1hmAM #Egypt #freedomflotilla 4 minutes ago via Nambu
7. Joshua IsraeliSoldier
Crowds continue to grow. Amazing mix of people here 5 minutes ago via TweetDeck
8. Engy Ghozlan EngyG
RT @3arabawy thousands of protesters inside the mosque it's almost full. There r protesters outside.police dispersing them via @mohamedwaked 5 minutes ago via Nambu
9. twibbon.com twibbon
Stay healthy! Today is World No Tobacco Day. Get your Twibbon here - http://bit.ly/b3gxWn 5 minutes ago via web
10. Sarahcarr Sarahcarr
Biggest demo since 2008. Very orderly. 9 minutes ago via Ping.fm Retweeted by Zeinobia and 2 others
11. Engy Ghozlan EngyG
RT @ielsakka RT @wael RT @souhail_: The police is using tear gas against protestors approaching the israel embassy in Paris #FreedomFlotilla 7 minutes ago via Nambu
12. cathypreety cathypreety
13. Joshua IsraeliSoldier
Never thought I'd enjoy Israelis honking their car horns so much... 7 minutes ago via TweetDeck
14. Engy Ghozlan EngyG
Demo in Cairo #freedomflotilla RT @Sarahcarr Biggest demo since 2008. Very orderly.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Why is twitter censoring Flotilla!
What's with the censorship and not havin the flotilla a trendin topic?! I'm pretty sure it's a trending topic, it's being updated every second. If you go on google news, you will see the updates every second, and on twitter you will see the updates every seconds! #flotilla freedom
http://www.google.com/#q=flotilla&hl=en&prmd=nuv&tbs=rltm:1&tbo=u&ei=NVUDTJeOLoGC8gbe5fnODQ&sa=X&oi=realtime_result_group_more_results_link&ct=title&resnum=8&ved=0CEkQ5QUwBw&fp=79e0c4f53045b371
http://www.google.com/#q=flotilla&hl=en&prmd=nuv&tbs=rltm:1&tbo=u&ei=NVUDTJeOLoGC8gbe5fnODQ&sa=X&oi=realtime_result_group_more_results_link&ct=title&resnum=8&ved=0CEkQ5QUwBw&fp=79e0c4f53045b371
Happy Memorial day: Flotilla carrying aid to Gaza attacked!
TOday is Memorial day. TOday, also an international aid flotilla was attacked on the way to Gaza! Read the article below for more information, stay informed, tell people about it, protest. This is a human rights issue! Stand up for humanitarian rights! Let's remember the killing of innocent people, innocent volunteers going to Gaza to help children, women, innocent people who are affected by the Israeli government. Twitter it also and make it a trend:#flotilla
We are with you Gaza. We are with you flotilla, you are our heroes today.
I'll blog with any updates.
10 killed in Israeli attack on aid flotilla bound for Gaza
JERUSALEM, May 31 (Xinhua) -- Israeli forces on Monday attacked an international flotilla carrying aid to besieged Gaza, killing at least 10 people, an Israeli television reported.
A human rights organization Free Gaza Movement also said clashes happened between an international aid flotilla bound for Gaza and Israeli navy, causing several casualties.
Israeli commandos dropped from a helicopter onto the deck of a Turkish ship at about 4:30 a.m. and immediately opened fire on unarmed civilians.
Israel Defense Forces spokesman's office cannot confirm the report at the press time.
Live image from the flotilla shows that Israeli soldiers from the helicopter and a number of speedboats boarded one of the ships at night. Activists wearing life vests were treating what appeared to be injuries for unknown reasons.
Israeli navy on Sunday night sighted the pro-Palestinian "Freedom Flotilla" bound for the Gaza Strip and ordered the convoy to dock at an Israeli harbor.
Troops boarded the flotilla and clashed with the activists after they ignored Israeli orders to turn back, Turkey's NTV reported Monday.
The flotilla of six ships set sail from a port in Cyprus on Sunday and was expected to reach Gaza by Monday morning, Al-Jazeera reported.
The flotilla, originally made up of nine ships from Turkey, Britain, Ireland, Greece, Kuwait and Algeria, were carrying around 10,000 tons of aid including cement, water purification systems and wheelchairs. One of the ships had not arrived and two others had been damaged.
We are with you Gaza. We are with you flotilla, you are our heroes today.
I'll blog with any updates.
10 killed in Israeli attack on aid flotilla bound for Gaza
JERUSALEM, May 31 (Xinhua) -- Israeli forces on Monday attacked an international flotilla carrying aid to besieged Gaza, killing at least 10 people, an Israeli television reported.
A human rights organization Free Gaza Movement also said clashes happened between an international aid flotilla bound for Gaza and Israeli navy, causing several casualties.
Israeli commandos dropped from a helicopter onto the deck of a Turkish ship at about 4:30 a.m. and immediately opened fire on unarmed civilians.
Israel Defense Forces spokesman's office cannot confirm the report at the press time.
Live image from the flotilla shows that Israeli soldiers from the helicopter and a number of speedboats boarded one of the ships at night. Activists wearing life vests were treating what appeared to be injuries for unknown reasons.
Israeli navy on Sunday night sighted the pro-Palestinian "Freedom Flotilla" bound for the Gaza Strip and ordered the convoy to dock at an Israeli harbor.
Troops boarded the flotilla and clashed with the activists after they ignored Israeli orders to turn back, Turkey's NTV reported Monday.
The flotilla of six ships set sail from a port in Cyprus on Sunday and was expected to reach Gaza by Monday morning, Al-Jazeera reported.
The flotilla, originally made up of nine ships from Turkey, Britain, Ireland, Greece, Kuwait and Algeria, were carrying around 10,000 tons of aid including cement, water purification systems and wheelchairs. One of the ships had not arrived and two others had been damaged.
Friday, May 28, 2010
egypt or no egypt?
I'm still debating on whether or not I want to go to Egypt this summer. A part of me is dying to hear the call to prayer (athan) five times a day, to eat mango's, grape leafs, koshari, drink karkadeeh, asab, shop for hijabs for cheap, go for a morning run at the nadi, drink a costa frescato while reading a book at an odd hour of the day to avoid the loud noise and fuming cigarettes, see all my relatives, aunts, uncles, grandma, listen to egyptian jokes, watch cheesy egyptian movies, order everything from the comfort of my home (pharmacy, super market, cook door!!), ask for directions and end up in no where, listen to taxi driver's amusing yet sad ramblings, stay up all night with cousins talking about our naive, fun, corny pasts, go on a walk on the stanly bridge and eat roasted corn on the cob and friska, and so on.
Yetthe other part of me doesn't really want to witness sexual harassment, poor treatment of customers, maids, lower class workers, or cairo traffic, corruption, police officer and guards bribery, corruption, taxi's ripping you off because you have a slight accent, workers' attitudes, employee's stalking when you go inside a store, messed up streets, inadequate traffic laws, silly driving laws, heat, stuck-up rich people, teenagers (and older) with their stereo on so loud to look cool, being harassed although one is dressed properly, laziness, hijabi's wearing super tight, cheesy, rainbow colored clothes (lime green carina, seriouslyyy??), teens trying to hard to look 'western,' overpriced items.
to go to egypt or not go to egypt, that is the not so easy question
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Sex and the city 2 vs. hijabies in the city
So I watched Sex and the City 2 and wow do I have some mixed feelings about it.
First of all it's filled with stereotypes. Rich Arabs in "Abu Dhabi," dubbed the "new middle-east" which equals to "modernized." So the four ladies go to Abu Dhabi and stay at this super luxurious hotel with fancy shmancy butlers and food. The ladies are awed by the females who are at the hotel, wearing 'niqwab' which is actually supposed to be 'niqab.' I mean if you're going to make a film in an Arab country (the filmed was set in Morocco by the way) then at least get the Arabic words right.
Anyway, so they think it's funny how the niqwab-ed ladies eat french fries and poke some fun at them as well as the female swimmers in burkini's (a head to toe swimmin suit). At that same scene, however, they were talking about how pretty a girl's abaya was because of it's embroidery and this was popular among young liberal females.
Fast forward to dull, unoriginal boring scenes, (and a couple of Samanatha's disturbing scenes which I thought gave American ladies a bad image --i.e. think sexual desires at 52) and in the end you see some niqwab-ed ladies take off their head covering and abayas and are dressed in sexy stylish clothing and look hot.
Anyway, the movie emphasized that in Abu Dhabi (or any Muslim country), people dressed modestly and mixing and touching of the opposite sex is illegal (Samantha got arrested for what she was doing on the beach).
At times it portrayed Arab men as controllers, but it also showed that American men the same way as the lawyer lady (I forgot her name) kept being silenced by her male colleagues). So treatment of women was an issue in the movie, that both American, Arab, Muslim, non-Muslim females can be treated negatively and unfairly.
However, most of the strict scenes that happened in the movie, is most likely not true in a country as liberal and diverse and UAE. I mean if this movie took place in Saudi Arabia, then I'd understand.
Now, for any non-muslim who sees the movie and wonders if arab women are really like that, I'll leave you with a question. Are all american women like samantha?
It was also a bit awkward to walk out of the movie theatre after the movie was done with my friends (being all hijabi's and the movie had a bunch of stereotypes). But we wore stylish clothes, handbags, sunglasses, and walked out in confidence with our hijabs on proudly and out into the city -- Hijabies in the city.
Here's an article that critics the movie:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/25/sex-and-the-city-2-review_n_589155.html
First of all it's filled with stereotypes. Rich Arabs in "Abu Dhabi," dubbed the "new middle-east" which equals to "modernized." So the four ladies go to Abu Dhabi and stay at this super luxurious hotel with fancy shmancy butlers and food. The ladies are awed by the females who are at the hotel, wearing 'niqwab' which is actually supposed to be 'niqab.' I mean if you're going to make a film in an Arab country (the filmed was set in Morocco by the way) then at least get the Arabic words right.
Anyway, so they think it's funny how the niqwab-ed ladies eat french fries and poke some fun at them as well as the female swimmers in burkini's (a head to toe swimmin suit). At that same scene, however, they were talking about how pretty a girl's abaya was because of it's embroidery and this was popular among young liberal females.
Fast forward to dull, unoriginal boring scenes, (and a couple of Samanatha's disturbing scenes which I thought gave American ladies a bad image --i.e. think sexual desires at 52) and in the end you see some niqwab-ed ladies take off their head covering and abayas and are dressed in sexy stylish clothing and look hot.
Anyway, the movie emphasized that in Abu Dhabi (or any Muslim country), people dressed modestly and mixing and touching of the opposite sex is illegal (Samantha got arrested for what she was doing on the beach).
At times it portrayed Arab men as controllers, but it also showed that American men the same way as the lawyer lady (I forgot her name) kept being silenced by her male colleagues). So treatment of women was an issue in the movie, that both American, Arab, Muslim, non-Muslim females can be treated negatively and unfairly.
However, most of the strict scenes that happened in the movie, is most likely not true in a country as liberal and diverse and UAE. I mean if this movie took place in Saudi Arabia, then I'd understand.
Now, for any non-muslim who sees the movie and wonders if arab women are really like that, I'll leave you with a question. Are all american women like samantha?
It was also a bit awkward to walk out of the movie theatre after the movie was done with my friends (being all hijabi's and the movie had a bunch of stereotypes). But we wore stylish clothes, handbags, sunglasses, and walked out in confidence with our hijabs on proudly and out into the city -- Hijabies in the city.
Here's an article that critics the movie:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/25/sex-and-the-city-2-review_n_589155.html
A little girl wearing hijab? -From Oprah's website
This is interesting. Would you guys (muslim or non-muslims) let your little kid wear a scarf at a young age (what's the youngest you would let them? 9? 8? 11?)
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http://www.oprah.com/spirit/Choosing-to-Wear-the-Muslim-Headscarf
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http://www.oprah.com/spirit/Choosing-to-Wear-the-Muslim-Headscarf
Friday, May 21, 2010
Dear Mr. Future president of Egypt
If you guys could write a letter to the future president of the Egypt (maybe Baradei), what would you say? I would LOVE to read what everyone has to say!!
Also apparently, you can ask Baradei a question and he will answer on http://www.google.com/moderator/?hl=ar#16/e=6017
So comment below and write your letters to the future president of the u.s.! open your heats out about egypt, ask questions, voice your concerns, personal issues, etc
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