Walk Like an Egyptian?

Cleansing the Mind with Gratitude

Getting to Know Myself

Sleepless in the Big Mango
"I'm addicted to being awake," says Sameh Marghani, under the dizzying lights of a Cairo neighborhood teeming with families shopping and teenagers nodding to the boom-boom of their car stereos.It is midnight in Heliopolis, in northern Cairo, where the late night bumper-to-bumper traffic gives no hint of a workday beginning nine hours later."It's not in our culture to sleep early," says another night owl, Abdo, 39, who asked that his surname be withheld."The only reason to go to bed early is if you are going to get a pay cut for showing up late at work, otherwise, why sleep early?" asks the balding man with deep dimples, who admits his children regularly s

Just a line....
To say.. I'm here... somewhere! But I hardly have a moment to think, and the blog seems extremely low on my list of priorities (or even my lists of things I am interested in right now, sorry to say!)I guess it is exciting really to have a life for the first time since coming to Egypt, I have so much that I am interested in (and a lot less to complain about).I would like to ask, however, one more time, as a plea for my blood sister, who is finishing up her ECE in Toronto... I am trying to help support her in her efforts, and advising her to reach out to people and do more things, and who knows, maybe one day she will see fit through her experience to continue helpin

Please help my sis and the children of Riverton, Jamaica
In March 2010, a group of 25 people - students, faculty, and teachers in the field of early childhood education and other Seneca College programs, as well as others from the community, will be travelling to Jamaica to take part in a 2-week, work/study program. We will be working in a variety of places - in a school for children aged 2-6 in a shanty town at Kingston’s landfill site, an orphanage for children with HIV, a home for teen moms, a residence for abandoned seniors, and a home for children with special needs. Our accommodations and lifestyle will be modest. We are staying in dormitory-style accommodations and preparing our own breakfasts and lunches. Our group is the Se

Lovin the options
I am just so happy I could not contain it a moment longer. If I don't spill it, surely I will burst!So... we went to a different fertility doctor here in Rehab. He looks at our history and confirmed we have "unexplained infertility". Basically there is nothing wrong that we can see, but sometimes things just "don't mix" the way they should ;)The part which I am ecstatic about however, is that he gave as an option that we can try - and one that MAKES SENSE.IUI.And, we also got the impression from this doctor (that's twice now) that the other doctor we were seeing was certainl

Another reason to be grateful
I really, really try to not be judgmental... especially when I remember how naive or even ignorant I used to be prior to Islam. Alhumdullah, Islam opened my eyes to so much and I can never express enough how truly blessed I am to be enlightened. I do think I mentioned once before, that on my certificate of conversion, it states that "Allah opened my heart to the truth". And, I can honestly say, that this one act, the meaningful utterance of my shahadah, did cause for me an opening to a whole new way of thinking, feeling and relating to the world.Quite frankly, I would imagine that only a convert or a born Muslim who begins to practice after many years of not doing so, could a