S wants to make a documentary and I asked her to join her. She asked me to sleep over her place to wake up early in the morning and interview people. I said ok.
My parents didn't raise me up in this context; invite my friends to sleep over, but I always liked it, and I have never done it before in my life.
So I met her on T Marbouta, we went food shopping, got a nice cold bottle of wine, went to her place and made dinner. It was a lousy pasta, sorry S.
I mean she set a very nice and romantic table, the dishes, glasses and whatever was there, were all blue. It was too much fancy for me, and I am not sure if I was ready to appreciate it, being a bit nervous that I am sleeping at somebody's place.
A friend if her called her from beneath, she went to the balcony and gave him the key. He got in, said hi and wanted to have that same blue glass we have. I was happy to give him mine since there was no third one.
I ate my food, slowly, S ate for the third time.
Y, S's friend, is a character. Actually both of them are characters. They are smart, spontaneous, funny in a very smart way, very sensitive and attentive to new people- rare people are so.
I was really having one of a secret
S keeps telling us, every now and then, that she misses her girlfriend. They have been together for over two years now, and they recently moved to this amazing department, next to a horrible neighbor; Junblat.
Y too, was telling us that he is in love with a Saudi guy, whom doesn't know that Y loves him.
These stories were so familiar, so damn straight.
I looked at myself, what so straight about me? here I am haven't finished my pasta, nervous, quite and haven't told them about my "straight" adventures with guys, and you yet call me straight.
We talked politics, a Shiaa guy, a Palestinian girl and a Syrian girl. We shared a lot, we shared passion to save people, we may have disagreed on how, but "people", was our main concern.
I chose to sleep on the sofa, the balcony was facing me, there was some blue sky, and a black building keeping that blueness to appear, but I remember I dreamt about it anyway.
11 comments:
Dont fall in the Iranian trap Sham, and use the term shiia!
that guy is a lebanese Muslim. The whole thing of sunnis and shiites is a malicious Irani invention to faciltate the infltration of those barbaric criminals into our region.
In Lebanon, mentioning the sect is not necessarily sectarian, but it is a hint on one's political background; HezbAlla. I cannot see what Iran has to do with the Sunni Shiaa thing, it is Turkish per excellence, the sectarian culture is not Irani made but Turkish. It is the Sunni Turks who taught the Sunni Arabs to be sectarian, that much. Of course the Arabs are sectarian, but committing massacres against the Christians and the Jews in 80s, is a Turkish policy.
What we see in Iraq is not Irani sectarian, but Irani/US struggle in the Arab World.
So I guess don't you fall in that trap ;-)
Alright Sham, you asked for it!
You might be right about the Turkish thing. However, in the second half of the 20th century sunni-shiite political discourse was put forward by Iran. During the time of pimple head Mohamed Rethah Pahlavi, he used to impose himself on Iraq on the pretext of defending shiites.
The horrible fanatic beatles like Khomeini, Khameini, NAJAD AND THE REST OF THE CRAP, used to call for toppeling the infidel iraqi regime, and calle upon the Iraqi shiites to reolt. "Bani sadr" stated in 1979 that Irani army and revolution will reach Bahgdad.
Ironically, the hypocrats had no qualms of dealing with th athiest syrian baathists and the minor satan Israel during the war of aggression against Arabism in Iraq.
You have seriously disappointed me by
"What we see in Iraq is not Irani sectarian, but Irani/US struggle in the Arab World"
Tell that the Irani death squads who drill sunnis and acidify them.
Dear shm who is killing Iraqi academics, pilots, officers, doctors? It is acknowledged by Iranis, Americans and more importantly Iraqis that Irani intelligence elemnts are the ones executing those horrors.
And do you really consider yourself an Arab? dont you feel angry at the sight of the persian dirt controling iraq?
They openly claim that they dont want Arab nationalism in Iraq, and they want a pro IRAN iRAQ.......
lISTEN DEAR SHAM, MY MOTHER IS NOT IRAQI and my familly roots are deeply grounded inside the Egyptian soil. Still, fire is eating me at the sight of Irani baraber controlling Iraq.
On pure pragmatic basis Iran is more iminent danger than Israel. It is clea that Israel is an anomaly in th region. for after 27 years of the peace treaty. Israeli strategists consider Egypt their number one enemy: check jaffe center, haaretz and ahronote. In the mean time 98% of Egyptian consider Israel their eternal enemy. Traveling to israel is social suicide in Egypt.
the point I'm trying to make is that to confrontIsral we havebuild strong econmies and develop ourselves. If we cant do it in this generation futire generations will do the job.
In case of Iran it is a totally different equation. Dearabisng Iraq will entail a masive reduction in Arab strategic weight and he range of their dreams. Remeber in 1990 during the madrid confence, farouk el shar3 threatened Israelis with Iraq and stated that dspite of the big chasm, the iruis wontleave syria to fight Israel alone. In the mean time irai dollars injected new blood into EGYPTIAN STRATEGIC DEFENCE INDUSTRIES and provided a way out o the American presuure to cintain egypt's strategic capabilties.
In the mean time Iran has no fundamnetal problems with Israel.
The outbursts of som mouthpieces from the demagogue Najad, is a tactical manoeuver to divert attention from the Irani ethnic cleansing of Arabs in Iraq
sooner or later they will get together. And we will all be Taiwans and bana republics in a western perseu- Israeli middle east.
what do you think about the new American Irani agreement on a broad policy regarding Iraq?
I also have to remind you that the bulk of Irani population has got no problems with Israel, on the contrary they are fond of grudge against Arabs and most of the m are pesian natioanlist who are very aware of the role of safavid shiisim in advocating Irani interests. Unfortunately, the same argument is not applicable on the comatose Arabs.
Now one more shot for he road,
many leftists like Noam chomosky and other orientalist troubadors advocate lies about the perscution of shiites, for they view marxist elemnts embeded into the islamic revolution discourse.
There i woul like to remind you that the majority of top baathists in iraq were shiites. There were no Sunni shiite thing in Iraq. shiites as long as they were secular, were equal to sunnis in everything.
Sunni oppositio was persecuted. Also, the shiites who had persian lineage or affilationa with persian dirt in Qum were sent back to beloved one Iran. it is thos who came back in milions after the nvasion, in order to persianise Iraq.
one more thing about iran. Iran's pwer is just like that of cockroash on the wall: in 100 years they only went into a struggle agaianst the much smaller iraq in which there huimilated and defeated thoutoughly. They consider the fact thIraqis didnt reach tehran Victory!
Iran's miltary power is no war comparable to egypt who wiped out 5000 iranis in el fao with sakr 80 missiles and asrin bombs.
However with Iraq under the wing of the IRANI DRCULA WE WILL BE CREATIN A NERW iSREL
fi se7tak ya gameel
abyad,
your dirty words add such an air of truth to your argument!
actually, i am glad that the likes of you (filled with such hate that you do not see israel as your primary threat) are so clueless about the reality of shiaa, that this cluelessness will keep you stabbing in the dark and deem you ineffective forever.
In case you havent noticed, I was not talking about shiites, i was talking about Iranians!!!!!!!
so why did get so angry when i cracked down on your masters in Qum1? I have nothing but respect for the household and the shiites myself.
I'm memebr of the household myself.
Out of respect for Sham I WONT REPLY TO YOUR perconal insults.
But i swear to Allah and my granfather Imam Hussein that if I ever get meet you face to face I will flush your head in a toilet full of the crap of Khomeini LOL
Amre,
Tsk tsk, still peddling the same rubbish hoping somebody will listen to you. You don't know that you don't know, this is all I will say about you.
Amazing how the readers focused on the political context, but they universally missed the sexual overtones! Even the label of post told volumes....Politics can be so blinding to other social mutations. Who knew that there was a so-called hip "alternative" lifestyle going on in Beirut, a city I lived in for 4 straight years. Such a shame!
:))
wassim, I think that you should discuss my points instead of making those ungrounded judgements. Untill you learn to discuss, i wont dignify you with an answer.
In case i dont know, why dont you make me favour and let me know :)
By the way, I think it is you who is th most dangerous type, because you know- while you are pretending that you dont know LOL
Amre, actually you were talking about Iranis and the Shiaas:
"There i would like to remind you that the majority of top baathists in iraq were shiites"
And before that you mentioned the persecution of the Iraqi elite under the Iraqi and Irani intelligence.
Then you said:
"Sunni opposition was persecuted. Also, the shiites who had Persian lineage or affiliation with Persian dirt in Qum were sent back to beloved one Iran."
You are making the Sunnis as victims and free of responsibilities regarding the injustice entailing the Iraqi people, and blaming merely the Shiaa.
When will the Sunni stop thinking as a Sunni Amre?
While my reference to "Shiaa Lebanese" is very important to say that there is NO 14 March Lebanese participating in aiding or interested to aid Nahr el Bared The major people who are helping the Palestinian refugees is Palestinian, then comes 8 March Lebanese movement. So in that room there were two of these groups.
In Lebanon, sectarianism is rather complex than just naming sects as such.
But your comment on Shiaa is the sectarian Amre, you are the Sunni who thinks Shiaa is a threat embodied by Iran. A threat more dangerous than Israel.
Israel who is launching an ethnic cleansing policy towards the Palestinians.
Israel who is racist against Arab 48.
Israel who has displaced millions of Palestinian around the globe not willing to recognize their right of return.
Israel who …etc.
What about Iran? It is certainly a threat, but it is the power which aided HezbAlla to defend Lebanon against the Israeli war last summer.
Iran is not a follower as Mubarak, and that Jordan's king nor KSA's, Iran is a state that stands up in the face of western misconception: "you middle easterns have no right of determination, we'll just do it for you".
One thing you should do instead Amre, and I am doing it too, be a self-critical Sunni, before I am of any other sect. and be a self- critical Egyptian, before you are of any other country. I hope then you will be understood correctly by other bloggers.
But above all, and you have been a regular reader to my blog, you have insulted two dear bloggers of mine, Ibn Bint Jbeil and Wassim, I hope you keep that in mind.
Apologies to Ibn Bint Jbeil and Wassim if any word has harm you in any way.
Again you are overlapping regimes with people and culture. I hope i have made myself clear here.
About insults I never insult anyone. But i dont accept any sort of undignified reference to myself from anybody.
Iran is standing up just because of the brilliant iraqi resistance.
So you are equating Iran with Iraq?
can't you see the obvious? Persian and Arab culture are myutally ecxlusive, the best way to handle it is good fence good neighbour.
About the perecution argument. It i much more simple than you think, and I'm gouing to be honest with you. Secualrs in Iraqs were never persecuted. The perentge of sunni seculars was higher than that of shiites.
However, racism with Iranians is a patriotic duty in Iraq. Iran is the eternal enemy of Iraq who wants to impose its inferior culture on its superior neighbours.
Those whio sympathised with Iran were quite rightfully and understanably persecuted.
Also some Iraquis were of mixed Irani-Iraqui origin and I think that is an enough reason for prsecution at times of war.
Besides, I think it is alright to persecute persians in Iraq, Iraquis have been the neighbours of those dirt for thoudsands of years, they educated them and braught them civilsation, but still they are full of grudge. So i guess they are best people to handle them!
As for self-criticism well i criticise Egypt like hell in all blogs. More imporatntly, I criticised everything Egyptian INSIDE EGYPT. However when i see an Iranian snake creeping up on my land then i have to conjure up all the natioalistic elementsin my culture.
Iran is a zero compared to Iraq or Egypt. with all its oil wealth Iran is far behind it in technological embddment, modernisation, miltary.etc. iraq started modernising in 20s of this century and Surpassed Iran( and the entire east) in a very short period, in addition to defeating it in war. Also at the times of Mohamed Ali, Nasser and ISMAEL Egypt almost caught up or was about to catch up with Europe in no time.
I interpret those factors in the light, of Arab superiority over Persians.
Whether Iran can stand on its feet or not that is non of our business(view their agreement with U.S regarding policies in Iraq) policies.
and pleae dont tell me about Israel's crimes, because i know about it very well. I wouldnt be exggerating when I claim that my hatred for Iran is mainly because I see the Israeli danger very well.
We have to get rid of Iran and maintain the Arabism of Iraq, otherwise. It will be hell, and nothing can ever be made about the future( has already started) Israel-Iran alliance!
we have a fanatic crazy snake called Iran stretching itself inside the region, so we have to forget about all differences and self-critcism un till we crush its head before it is too late........
I can't understand why dont you sympathise with Iraquis? why dont you hate Iran for its crimes in Iraq?
As for me I alwys help Palestinains in Egypt as much a possible, to the extent that some don't understand it and might even think that I'm expecting some sexual favours or something..( fuckin Arabs LOL)
One more thing, may I ask you what is the use of saying I'm an Arab in your blog and While you dont hate Itanians for the sake of your Arab brothers in Iraq.
Using the same logic why do you symopathise with Palestinians? is it because you believe in greater Syria? or is it because your father is half Palestinian? or is it because of Arabism.If it was not because of Arabism, then i dont se why the rest of us should hate Israel
I have been reading your blog and
I have done a post inspired by some of your readers comments. I really hope things get a lot better for your country soon. Here is my post site, John
http://atatude.wordpress.com/2007/06/12/love-and-respect-on-planet-earth/
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