Sorry About The Images, But It's About Somalia Again

Please help, please do something , in the name of everything dear to you, do something. Please 

A doctor examines Mihag Gedi Farah, a 7-month-old child with a weight of 7.5 pounds, in a field hospital in Dadaab, Kenya, now home to hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees fleeing famine at home. (Source)

Here is 

 45 Reasons Why You Should Donate $1 To People In Somalia

11.3 MILLION people DESPERATELY need humanitarian aid as food prices grow and supply dwindles in Somalia. It's the worst drought in over 20 years. $1 = 4 FULL MEALS. Hopefully these pictures will persuade you to help. You should donate to the United Nations Food Programme here. Spread the word! Facebook! Twitter! Tumblr!

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أذكار Azkar

 كل عام و انتم بخير 

Happy Ramadan 

كيف تحمي نفسك

أثره وفضله العدد الورد اليومي حارس من الملائكة يحرسه ، وطارد للشياطين عند النوم ، وبعد كل صلاة مفروضة آية الكرسي تكفي من شرور كل شيء وطارد للشيطان لمدة ثلاث ليال قبل النوم أو مرة بعد المغرب آخر آيتين من سورة البقرة تكفي من شرور كل شيء وتحفظ من شر الجان وعين  الإنسان ثلاث مرات في الصباح وثلاث في المساء وقبل النوم وبعد كل صلاة مفروضة الإخلاص والمعوذتين كنز من كنوز الجنة  ودواء من 99 داء ، أيسرها الهم الإكثار منها بدون تحديد قول : لا حول ولا قوة إلا بالله حامية من كل ضرر ، ولا تصيبه فجأة بلاء ، ولا يضره شيء مع ذكرها ثلاث مرات في الصباح وثلاث في المساء قول: بسم الله الذي لا يضر مع اسمه شيء في الأرض ولا في السماء وهو السمبع العليم مضاد لسم العقرب ومحصنة للأماكن والدور من شر ما يدب فيها ثلاث مرات في المساء  ومن نزل منزلا قول : أعوذ بكلمات الله التامات من شر ما خلق الكافية من هم الدنيا والآخرة سبع مرات في الصباح وسبع في المساء قول : حسبي الله لا إله إلا هو عليه توكلت وهو رب العرش العظيم حرز عظيم تكتب له مائة حسنة وتمحى عنه مائة سيءة وله عدل عشر رقاب ، وإذا دخل السوق كتب له ألف ألف حسنة ومحي عنه ألف ألف سيئة وفي وراية يبنى له بيت في الجنة عشر مرات صباحا وعشر مرات مساء أو مائة مرة في اليوم أو أكثر أو عند دخول السوق قول : لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له له الملك وله الحمد وهو على كل شيء قدير..... وإذا دخل السوق زاد بعد ( له الحمد ) ( يحي ويميت وهو حي لا يموت بيده الخير وهو على كل شيء قدير)ا قوة ثلاثية تحصينية من الشيطان وتجعل الشيطان يتنحى عنه مرة بعد كل خروج من البيت قول : بسم الله ، توكلت على الله ، ولا حول ولا قوة إلا بالD9ه تحفظه من الشيطان ليوم كامل   مرة واحدة عند دخول المسجد قول : أعوذ بالله العظيم وبوجهه الكريم وبسلطانه القديم من الشيطان الرجيم غفرت ذنوبه وإن كان فارا من الزحف الإكثار منها دون تحديد استغفر الله الذي لا إله إلا هو الحي القيوم وأتوب إليه كفاية الهموم وغفران الذنوب  وإدراك شفاعة النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم يوم القيامة عش ر مرات في الصباح وعشر في المساء أو أكثر من ذلك الإكثار من الصلاة على النبي تحصن وتحفظ من شياطين الإنس والجن ومن شر كل ذي شر جميع الصلوات   المحافظة على صلاة الجماعة في المسجد حفظ الأموال والأولاد وغيرهما من السرقة والتعدي كل شيء يراد حفظه مرة واحدة قول : أستودعكم الله الذي لا تضيع ودائعه

Friday Good Reads(7-29-11)

67 Peoples To Raise Your Voice For !

This Column will change your life: Poverty and Willpower 

Almost Extinct: Elephants in Danger  

Amazing Monkeys 

الأطفال بين أحكام الحضانة وعنف زوجات الآباء

مشروع قانون الإرهاب السعودي الجديد: لا تفعلها يا وطني

من يقول إنني وحشي؟

الجبت والطاغوت

Books Dilemma !!

I love, love reading books so i buy lots of them, yes they stay for long sometimes for their turn to be read ,but they are going to be read eventually and here is the dilemma :D, 

what shall i do with them after that ? . 

I don't keep  books, i used to but not anymore,  i rarely re-read a book again. 

 then, i used to send them to some of my cousins ,they say they like to read books but apparently they aren't, cuz the packs i sent a few years ago are still not finished or maybe "the take time to read a book" is a gene in the family. Now, they say they don't want any :( 

Libraries here are for selling books, and the only place to sell them is by "bunch" of them only. And i don't care for selling books.

Public places only allow religious books and i can not find anyone to want them !!

 So what do i do with them, right now i have almost 10 finished books but there are 108 are waiting , So...

I thought of giving them as gifts to people who visit my blog here , what do you think ? Is it a good idea ?

Please don't read and leave... give me your opinion, what shall i do with my already-read-books and the rest !!!

More About the Somalia Drought

Somali Refugees in Dadaab: The worst crisis I’ve seen

East Africa drought ‘the most severe humanitarian emergency in the world’

The bottom line is... it hasn’t rained

How to Help: Somalia Famine and East Africa Drought Victims

Somalia famine: The level of suffering is beyond our imagination ..they need help, and they need it NOW

Somalia Drought: 300 Children Left For Dead On Journey To Refugee Camp

رسالة لكل صاحب ضمير حي: لأنهم لا يختلفون عنّا.. يداً بيد لنوقف مجاعة الصومال!! | عالم الإبداع

رسالة لكل صاحب ضمير حي: لأنهم لا يختلفون عنّا.. يداً بيد لنوقف مجاعة الصومال!! | عالم الإبداع

Oh! The Places You'll Go !

I love it, read it to your kids ,

to yourself 

and your loved ones. 

To everyone :) 

Oh! The Places You’ll Go!

by the incomparable Dr. Seuss

Congratulations!

Today is your day.

You’re off to Great Places!

You’re off and away!

You have brains in your head.

You have feet in your shoes.

You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

You’re on your own. And you know what you know.
And YOU are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

You’ll look up and down streets. Look’em over with care.
About some you will say, “I don’t choose to go there.” With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you’re too smart to go down a not-so-good street.

And you may not find any you’ll want to go down.
In that case, of course, you’ll head straight out of town. It’s opener there in the wide open air.

Out there things can happen and frequently do to people as brainy and footsy as you.

And when things start to happen, don’t worry. Don’t stew. Just go right along. You’ll start happening too.

Oh! The Places You’ll Go!

You’ll be on your way up!

You’ll be seeing great sights!

You’ll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.

You won’t lag behind, because you’ll have the speed. You’ll pass the whole gang and you’ll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you’ll be best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest.

Except when you don’t.

Because, sometimes, you won’t.

I’m sorry to say so but, sadly, it’s true that Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen to you.

You can get all hung up in a prickle-ly perch. And your gang will fly on. You’ll be left in a Lurch.

You’ll come down from the Lurch with an unpleasant bump. And the chances are, then, that you’ll be in a Slump.

And when you’re in a Slump, you’re not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done.

You will come to a place where the streets are not marked. Some windows are lighted. But mostly they’re darked. A place you could sprain both your elbow and chin! Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in? How much can you lose? How much can you win?

And if you go in, should you turn left or right…or right-and-three-quarters? Or, maybe, not quite? Or go around back and sneak in from behind? Simple it’s not, I’m afraid you will find, for a mind-maker-upper to make up his mind.

You can get so confused that you’ll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most useless place.

The Waiting Place…for people just waiting.

Waiting for a train to go or a bus to come, or a plane to go or the mail to come, or the rain to go or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow or waiting around for a Yes or No or waiting for their hair to grow. Everyone is just waiting.

Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite or waiting around for Friday night or waiting, perhaps, for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil, or a Better Break or a string of pearls, or a pair of pants or a wig with curls, or Another Chance. Everyone is just waiting.

No! That’s not for you!

Somehow you’ll escape all that waiting and staying. You’ll find the bright places where Boom Bands are playing. With banner flip-flapping, once more you’ll ride high! Ready for anything under the sky. Ready because you’re that kind of a guy!

Oh, the places you’ll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all. Fame! You’ll be famous as famous can be, with the whole wide world watching you win on TV.

Except when they don’t. Because, sometimes, they won’t.

I’m afraid that some times you’ll play lonely games too. Games you can’t win ‘cause you’ll play against you.

All Alone!

Whether you like it or not, Alone will be something you’ll be quite a lot.

And when you’re alone, there’s a very good chance you’ll meet things that scare you right out of your pants. There are some, down the road between hither and yon, that can scare you so much you won’t want to go on.

But on you will go though the weather be foul. On you will go though your enemies prowl. On you will go though the Hakken-Kraks howl. Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak. On and on you will hike. And I know you’ll hike far and face up to your problems whatever they are.

You’ll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You’ll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left.

And will you succeed?

Yes! You will, indeed!

(98 and ¾ percent guaranteed.)

Kid, you’ll move mountains!

So…be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray or Mordecai Ale Van Allen O’Shea, you’re off to Great Places!

Today is your day!

Your mountain is waiting.

So…get on your way!

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BBC Meme: How Many of These 100 Books Have YOU Read?

In 2003, the BBC have conduct a search for the nation's most beloved novel and they have a list of 100 book, over the years the list became a list of how many books have you read. 

Below you will find the list . 

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

34 Emma - Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe 

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy. 

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

52 Dune - Frank Herbert 

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth. 

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

 78 Germinal - Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession - AS Byatt. 

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo 

Source:- The Big Read 

 Fiona from A Fork in the Road have a great point of view which she shares on her site.

Forget the BBCs booklist, how many of these have you read?

Fiona believe that the list is limited and she shared a list of books by African author or about Africa that must be read .

beautiful list , read it all here

For those who read in Arabic , what will you list of a must read Arabic novels would include ?

Share with us, please :) 

And how about lists of books from each Arabic countries 

And another from every single countries in the world, it would be a great way to widen our knowledge of the whole world.

If you knew any of the lists, share with us please :)

Update:  Chiara  has provided two amazing sites you can check for more books. Free books :)


Free eBook By Project Gutenberg 

Arabic Literature (in English)

Thanks Chiara :)