On Sunday, I finally got to a screening of Slingshot Hip-Hop, the documentary of the Palestinian hip-hop scene by Jackie Reem Salloum. The documentary itself was very well done, both cinematographically and historically, covering 1998 to about 2006. Despite being a long-time hip hop head, I was fairly new to the Palestinian hip hop scene […]
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On Homosexuality in Morocco
The Syrian blogosphere recently got fired up over the subject of homosexuality. Specifically, a group of bloggers of a variety of backgrounds launched a campaign against homosexuality, and another group of bloggers responded rationally (though angrily). As my dear friend Razan pointed out in this epic post: It is very outrageous for some and for […]
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Magical Thinking
Step on a crack and you’ll break your mother’s back…Magical thinking is defined by nonscientific causal reasoning including ideas such as the ability of the mind to affect the physical world. Although it can manifest in a variety of ways, the primary commonality of magical thinking is the belief of the person that his or […]