At least three people I know got married or got into committed relationships less than six months of their break-up with ex-boyfriends. A friend seemed to find this surprising. I, on the other hand, think it’s natural since time in some relationships and their aftermath is an irrelevant element. Do girls forget easy? Do they… [Read more…]
September 24, 2010
This is a blogpost I began in July, did not publish and never revisited until this moment. Back then I was reading this Arabic book called Love in Saudi — a text that is both sexual and daring from Page 1. The most creative bit in the storytelling, for me, was how both the author… [Read more…]
June 29, 2010
“Sovereign of my heart, Regina, kept safe and secret in the deepest corner of my breast.” I’m big on psychology theorists these days, and while searching for e-books for Rollo Reese May (since I failed to find any hardcopies in our distinguished book-stores across Cairo), I came across works by Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher, psychologist and theologian. I… [Read more…]
June 22, 2010
At the third acting workshop this week, light was the star. We’d moved to a theater in downtown for our training, which is the venue we’ll using from now on. The blackbox we used yesterday is definitely much more equipped and spacious than the studio in Mohandiseen. I’d been moved to a new group, mostly all younger… [Read more…]
June 11, 2010
De Botton, Alain – On Love (The book in pdf format) Where do I begin? I don’t know. So I won’t. I’ll just leave you with the book, and let you formulate your own impressions and reach your own conclusions. I’ve been flooding my time-line on Twitter with quotes from this book, and I’m not… [Read more…]
April 17, 2010
Yes, I borrow from movies a lot. But it’s not this Elijah Wood drama that I want to talk about here, but about Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind … which is not exactly his although he appeared in it, since Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet were the poster stars. But I just wanted to… [Read more…]
April 17, 2010
By Amr El Beleidy ‘Along The Watchtower’ Guest Writer People tend to think that their way of life is the best way to live, until they see a different way that impresses them. And sometimes we fall into the trap of being so self centered and closed minded that our baseline for what’s right and… [Read more…]
April 15, 2010
Relationships, that is. The title of the blogpost is a quote from In the Loop, a Brit-American political comedy about the lead up to the Iraq war. It’s uttered by a hapless British minister lost at finding a way to remain neutral in the face of belligerent US politicians and military men divided over preventing… [Read more…]
October 5, 2010
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