Al-Daya: Dalal & Domesticity

The month is coming to an end, and as promised in a comment on my previous post on Fitha, this one goes to Hayat Al-Fahad’s Al-Daya.
What happened to Dalal (Mona Shaddad)? Domesticity changed her from a caring, compassionate, and smart woman to an old-fashioned jealous wife whose fear of losing her husband to another [...]

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Eat, Pray, LOVE

Today I celebrate.
I choose to begin my new blog today with Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert mainly because today marks my own celebration of love and this book attempts to conclude with finding love, a place where spirituality wins when the mind steps aside to allow love to dominate. The thought is a [...]

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Silver of the White Heart :)

Adil is married 15 years, has two daughters, and a wife who epitomizes all that is perfect in a Kuwaiti wife: looks, motherly affection, devotion to husband’s family, and an amount of love that is not weathered by circumstances. The Adil meets Sahar. And Adil falls in love with Sahar. Sahar, pregnant and abandoned by [...]

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More KU Grumble

As the school year approaches, KU deserves a dedication:
This one is found around Shuwaikh Campus, mainly by the entrance gates:New Comers Club announcing “We are in your service”In? As in they are indebted to the new comers? And then again, what kind of name is that? New Comers? Is it just me or is the [...]

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Always and Forever

Such beautiful concepts, as uplifting to the spirit as listening to ABBA songs. So romantically bewildering even when rationally impossible. Or maybe because they’re rationally impossible, they can be so romantically enchanting.
In preparing for my Literature and Art class, I am reading on Greek and Roman civilizations. Whereas the Greeks excelled because of their insistence [...]

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