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A Cause

"When a cause comes along and you know in your bones that it is just, yet refuse to defend it -- at that moment you begin to die. And I have never seen so many corpses walking around talking about justice." -- Mumia Abu-Jamal --

Silence

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Martin Luther King, Jr.

Stumbling Upon Myself...

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It's always interesting to see and hear what others have to say about your work. One of the most important things for a blogger in fact is the appreciation/critique fellow-bloggers or internet users give to her work. It doesn't make a difference whether it is a word of compliment or a word of concern, the fact that your name or your blog has been referred to on someone else's blog or website shows that you are relevant enough to someone. I was super excited to google my name recently and find several sites using my work. It's exciting - you will discover a lot more about yourself too if you just google out your name! What's more exciting in the e-world is that there are no boundaries here. My work has been translated into Spanish, French and German and I found it all on google! French: During Ramadan 2006, which was my first Ramadan after returning from college, I wrote an article called "Ramadan from California to Karachi" which was published in Dawn. Lat...

Obama Travels to the Middle East

President Obama will travel to Egypt tomorrow in order to improve the US image in the Middle East and to address issues that are of concern to the world. Read more: " Obama Travels to the Middle East: The US President Will Address Political Issues at Cairo University | Suite101.com" -