Friday Good Reads (12/10/10)

Women's issues:-

- Nurse leaves letters for her son after losing 11-year battle with cancer. A heart-breaking stroy.

- Amina Wadud performing the Hajj and writing about it here :-

 Hajj Journal: Using the Toilet at the Grand Mosque .

 Hajj Journal: Door Number 89: The Door with No Name .

Hajj Journal: Friday Salat al Jumu'ah in Haram al-Sharif

- From TED Women, this beautiful poem by Suheir Hammad. Text of “What I Will” by Suheir Hammad.

- Another beautiful poem, She Doesn't Know Her Beauty by Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo.

Miscellaneous

- Fact or fiction, 5 Lost Cities.

- What Are Popular Dreams? Eating Ice Cream, Marrying A Celebrity

- The Top 10 Everything of 2010 from Time.com. A recap of everything from 2010.

- 2010 Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar .

- The Art of Timing.

- Stefan Bladh has been following a Turkish nomadic family for seven years. This is his work . The Family

Psychology:-

-How to Remain Calm During Uneasy Times.  

- 5 Simple ways to live a life you love

- The Inner Critic Clinic

Video:-

TEDWomen cohost Pat Mitchell, the President of the Paley Center for Media, sits down for an intimate Q&A with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia. Here.

Arabic Articles:-

جميل ماقاله الدكتور خالص جلبي في مقالته الحج للمرة السابعة عشرة

ماهي مشكلة المواطن العربي, خالص جلبي يحلل المواطن العربي بين الفقيه والسياسي  

هل المرأة مخلوق درجة ثانية؟

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