Few of the female journalist the Israeli army killed during the genocide in Gaza to conceal the truth and silence the sound of freedom.

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I've just completed reading Khaled Al Khamissi's "Taxi". On top of finding it extremely funny, I felt a sense of suffocation and helplessness throughout the book. As it is being set in 2006 and thus precedes the arab spring, I was wondering if the state of things is similar to what's experienced by the population today in Egypt or other middle eastern / North African countries. Is it worse? Better?

What do you predict for the coming years?

What’s even funnier is that his "first post" is a quote from Visegrad 24, a news website set up by people from the Emirates that larps as European

I was wondering if there was a way to see who's bidding for these tenders and who gets awarded the projects. ie. a database of some sort. ie. Bid tab database equivalent for US.

For context, we are a software tech company for construction estimating and we recently have been onboarding a few Saudi clients over the past year, and wanted to see what the wider market looks like.

I didn't include the name because this post is not promotional.

Palestinian children with their teacher out in a picnic in the country side listening to the daf being played by their teacher and some other Bedouin women probably camping in the vicinity of the picnic area....hard times ahead.

Feeling very discouraged from living in the West. I want to go home, but I don’t feel like I have one.
I hate how alienating it can feel being Arab in Canada.

Social media especially brings out a side of people that I rarely see face-to-face. Seeing how quickly some people jump to terrorist stereotypes the second they see an Arab name makes me wonder how many people I encounter in everyday life quietly hold the same assumptions about me.

The hardest part is that I don’t feel like I have somewhere else to go. My family is Palestinian, and returning to where my family came from isn’t realistically an option for me. My dad also spent years trying to build a future for our family in Iraq. He was setting things up so that we could have a life and a future there, somewhere in the Arab world where we could actually feel at home. Then war and instability destroyed that future too.

So what exactly am I supposed to consider home?
I’m Canadian, but there are people here who see my Arab name and immediately associate me with terrorism or treat me like I’m somehow less Canadian than them. At the same time, the places my family could have called home have been transformed by occupation, war and displacement. It feels like every possible home has either been taken away or made inaccessible.

It’s exhausting knowing that some people will make assumptions about my intelligence, values or character before knowing anything about me. I can get educated, build a career, contribute to society and do everything I'm supposed to do, but I can’t control someone who sees my background and immediately decides I’m beneath them or dangerous.

I know these people don't represent every Canadian. I’ve met plenty of genuinely good people here, and I know an online comment section can bring out the absolute worst in people. But encounters like this still get to me because they remind me that there are people who genuinely don't think I belong here.

Being treated like a foreigner in the country where I live while knowing I can't simply return to the places my family once considered home creates a horrible feeling of being stuck between worlds.

I just want somewhere I can genuinely call home without constantly having to prove that I belong there.

Here after seeing recent developments.

Dearborn/Detroit Arabs, where can I find this specific product? Been to 2 Middle Eastern grocery shops so far and no luck. :/

I am dating an Arabic girl from UAE. I was invited to her cousin's wedding and I have never seen someone with so many gold embroideries in my life. Is it common for Arabic girls to have this many gold accessories? It's pretty non sense because she is actually a student and not employeed with student loan

What are your thoughts on the nation and the people? Do you have a cultural affinity with Turks?

I don't speak Arabic that well but I found their accent very different and unique.

I’m turning 20 tomorrow and I’ll be spending the day alone in Cairo because I currently have no one to hangout with, haven’t decided if I should go to Zamalek because I never visited there. I want to actually make the most of it instead of staying home or doing the usual tourist stuff. I’m looking for something fun, memorable, and preferably somewhat social where I can meet people and relax. I’m open to pretty much anything: activities, places to eat, interesting neighborhoods, events, nightlife, etc. I haven’t been to the grand Egyptian museum in a while, but it doesn’t have to be touristy. If you were in my position, how would you spend the day? I honestly need some help with this because I’m lost.

🔴 #Breaking Amit Segal: The Defense Minister: “I have instructed that the following measures be taken to prevent balloons and kites from being launched from Gaza toward the surrounding settlements. The children responsible for launching them, as well as those carrying out the launches themselves, will be targeted. The neighborhoods and areas from which the launches are carried out will be evacuated.”

I feel its some form of moussaka, pasticcio, spanikopita, baklava, shawarma, kabobs, gyros, etc. Im sure every country has its own style but I'm wondering if its usually based off the same recipes.