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Syrian refugee Emelline Mahmoud Ilyas stands outside the UNRWA community centre in Zarqa. Jordan 2015. Credit: Silvia Boarini/IPS by IPS Inter Press Service
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My life… and it’s verge of existence
onward voyager – kept the wind to your back, your children in your heart, and your mind open to…
Life throws us into its broad horizons. Sometimes we realize it. Sometimes we ask for it. Sometimes we don’t’ even know…
And quite often, it takes us by surprise.
I don’t know what is taking place yet … but something is happening. Something about my whole entire being. Something related to my unanswered questions and desires that I still don’t comprehend and properly grasp, and maybe realize.
I feel carried away. Like throwing yourself in a dance and you have to trust the beats and your counterpart and let go.
Letting go, is what terrifies me maybe…
Each time I try to find a beat to my life that I want to accommodate with, something else comes up. Turning everything upside down.
My life was manifested with a certain under control harmony when I decided to turn it all upside down and leave marriage. It was a harmony in an…
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U.S. Should Honor Billy Frank’s Dream
Billy Frank Jr., longtime chairman of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, received many awards during his life and continues to be honored since his passing in 2014.
His life was celebrated last month when President Barack Obama posthumously awarded him the Medal of Freedom. It is the nation’s highest civilian award.
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On Copts of Egypt: A Personal Journey
Sad that humans need to get over fears and biases of “other” time after time, after time. The writer’s experience between Muslim Conservatives and Coptic Christians, I have seen and experienced between various Protestant Sects, between Baptists and Catholics, Hispanics and Anglos, Black and White, Asian and Anglo. Let’s grow up!
Cairo ___ many years ago, my primary school teacher took me aside and gave me a stern ultimatum. Either cut my links with one of my friends, “C,” or my school performance would be affected. In my teacher’s view, “C” was a bad influence, and was distracting me away from my studies. “You have to fulfill your mother’s aspirations, there is a world ahead of you, so do not let this girl ruin it for you.”
“C” was a Coptic girl and my first-ever close friend. Many in my school were surprised that we even got on with each other. I was loud and bubbly; she was shy and diffident. But what we shared was hard for outsiders to understand___ empathy. Both of us were daughters of widows who were hard-working single mothers. We pined for our lost fathers, and felt a huge sense of responsibility to make progress…
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Egyptian Aak 2016 – Week 1 ( Jan 4-10) | Nervana
The World’s Oldest and Oddest Vending Machines You Never Knew Existed
Vending machines have come a long way from selling simply cans of Coke, chocolate bars and packets of crisps. Almost anything imaginable can now be purchased from the dispensaries, there is little that can’t be found in the self-service devices. Here’s a collection of vintage photographs, which date from the 1920s to the late 1960s, showcases some of the world’s oldest and oddest vending machines.
| A woman buys fruit from a coin operated machine at Paddington Station in London, ca. 1920s. |
| A woman uses The Maiwarm Company soda machine in 1928. It was the first of its kind not to require a soda squirter. |
| Mid adult couple purchasing ice cream from a vending machine, ca. 1930s. |
| A man uses the cafeteria vending machine called ‘Automat’, ca. 1940s. |
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Tracey Ullman: ‘My face is good for impersonations’
One of America’s most successful comic actors is back in Britain. Tracey Ullman tells Nigel Farndale why
At Tracey Ullman’s suggestion, we meet at a private member’s club around the corner from her home in Mayfair. In some ways this salubrious venue seems an appropriate setting, because according to the Sunday Times Rich List, the 55-year-old comic actor is worth £75m.
But in other ways it does not. The club is one of those places where you find yourself talking in muted voices so as not to disturb other members, and this doesn’t suit the voluble personality I’ve encountered in YouTube clips of Ullman on chat shows down the years. In those she’s very full on, an extrovert who seems more American than British, not least because she became a US citizen in 2006, after 20 years of living there.

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