Welcome, friends! Ahlain ya as-sdaqaaee!
I thought that it was finally time that I tried my hand at the blogosphere. Who knows how often I will post or if I can even sustain this mild effort of punditry for more than a week?
At least this post and the creation of this blog have given me the opportunity to add "mach zay gazma" to the archives of the internet. I just did a google search and it appears that no one has ever transliterated this Egyptian Colloquial Arabic expression into English in the same way that I have. The term literally means "a brain like a shoe" and in Egypt it is used to described someone who is extremely stubborn. Since my writings will be mostly about international politics, crises and the new campaign that I am working on to "save Darfur" (see below), and since the role of stubborness is all too clear in our world today, I thought this expression would be a perfect title for my blog.
It also reminds me of the time I randomly used the expression in the English class that I taught at a refugee center in Cairo. While I do not know if my students were impressed with my command of Egyptian idioms, they certainly laughed for quite awhile (Omar and Richard, do you remember?).
Now, for the second post about my new job at the Save Darfur Coalition - which is the real reason why I finally started this blog after over a year of consideration...
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2 comments:
What a great Blog. If people contirbute to this cause, where does the money go? What are some of the organizations that are backing this coalition? And what a great name for a Blog .. stubborn ... I will remember it
Love dad
Thanks Dad. Contributions to the Save Darfur Coalition go to funding the Coalition’s awareness and advocacy programs. These programs are vitally important in applying political pressure on our leaders to respond. As the late Senator Paul Simon said after the Rwandan genocide, "If every member of the (U.S.) House and Senate had received 100 letters from people back home saying we have to do something about Rwanda, when the crisis was first developing, then I think the response would have been different."
That said, in the coming days, I will be post ways to contribute to humanitarian relief organizations working in Darfur for those who want to give directly.
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