:)

I just wanted to say Hi to everyone who still follows this blog.

Hope you're happy and smiling with a smile as sweet as my little one's toothless big smile :D

Have a wonderful day.

De retour? maybe....

Cela fait déjà plus d'une année que je n'ai pas touché au clavier pour écrire sur ce blog qui m'est très cher. qu'est ce que je faisais? je vivais sans trop documenter ma vie:)
Aujourd'hui je suis à ma 38ème semaine de grossesse. J'attend les signes pour enfin rencontrer mon petit ange qui me fait énormément mal dans le dos. Entre temps, j'essaie de boucler ce que j'ai à boucler, parce que -apparemment- c'est pas aussi simple de prendre soin d'un nouveau né et de travailler sur une thèse.
J'espère bien que tout ira bien et que mon bon Dieu me donne la force et la persévérance qu'il faut pour être celle que j'aspire à être. De prendre soin de "moi" et de ceux qui me sont chers et de continuer à documenter ma petite vie et mes souvenirs qui coulent si vite comme l'a dit autrefois Apollinaire :

Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine

Et nos amours

Faut-il qu’il m’en souvienne

La joie venait toujours après la peine.

Vienne la nuit sonne l’heure

Les jours s’en vont je demeure

... 

Long lost cause

Whenever I read something palestine related my heart aches...I feel betrayal...I feel I betrayed palestine...I feel I betrayed myself!!

And whenever I read (re-read) Naji Al-Ali caricatures my eyes become very watery and this song begins to play in my head.

As I was in the middle of a re-reading session, I begin to wonder: does the generation Z happen to know anything about the palestinian cause? do they even know there is a palestine somewhere in the middle-east? do they know about naji el-ali? do they know about yahya ayyach? do they even know that isrel is the bad guy? that they haven't always been there? do they know about palestinian refugees? little do they know and little do we help them to know!!

I feel my heart aching...

Once I tried to pass the message to my little brother who is 16 now and boy was I shocked. He thought that palestine and Israel are in conflict over some border issues and that israel has always been there.

Now I wonder: what can we do to revive the cause?

What can we do to make all people know and care about what's going on in palestine?

I need ideas

What can we do?   

a reminder

Just keep smiling...

Life will be over someday...really soon

So,

just keep smiling 

and

ask Allah for forgiveness

:)

A Word On Priorities

I was hoping to write this week's post feeling like:

but since life isn't always as you want it to be, I'm writing now feeling like:

I promised myself not to write about sad things, but since I'm in that kind of mood I'll try to get a lesson out of it:
Don't keep your life on hold for some project, don't privilege study over family and friends, don't ever say :"this is the only thing I will working on for the next week"; life is larger than that. Try to sneak out some time for YOU and your family. This is what really matters and what will make you happy.

قصة حب

لماذا أكتب ؟
أكتب لأني  أشعر بالدفء ، أشعر أنني لست وحيدة.
أكتب لأني  أحب منظر الحبر الأزرق على الورق
يعجبني أن أنظر إلى تسلسل و انسياب الحروف و الكلمات التي أخطها (رغم رداءة خطي )
أكتب لأني  أشعر أني in harmony

I feel like I'm doing the right thing; I feel like I'm connected to the world with a strong and a subtle way

I write because I can't help smiling when I'm writing

أكتب لأني أشعر بالسعادة
أكتب لكي لا أكون وحيدة

لماذا أكتب؟

في نهاية هذا المقطع يقول المترجم: أترجم كل سبت لأحافظ على لياقة الحياة

جعلتني عبارته أقف مع نفسي و أتساءل:

 هل أنا أحافظ على لياقة الحياة؟

 هل أعمل على الحفاظ على توازني الداخلي؟

فقررت أن أكتب كل أحد لأحافظ على حياة القلب 

اللهم يسر

نُرَبِّي الأمَلْ

قُرْبَ بساتينَ مقطوعةِ الظلِّ،
نفعلُ ما يفعلُ السجناءُ،
وما يفعلُ العاطلونَ عنِ العمَلْ:
نُرَبِّي الأمَلْ.

محمود درويش

This is the question

" Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?

Edgar_Rice_Burroughs

Remember that ...

Everybody needs a place. It shouldn't be inside of someone else!!

-- Richard Siken --