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Mecano: Lessons Learned

I watched Mecano last weekend with my husband and loved it. It was heart warming and moving or maybe I was in an emotional mood.

If you haven’t watched the movie and don’t want a spoiler than go check out another post and come back when you have seen it. It really is a great movie [...]

eBook Review: Reclaim Your Dreams

Reclaim Your Dreams

Use the practical mind to compare facts. Use your heart to make choices.Jonathan Mead the author of Illuminated Mind was looking for bloggers to review his new book Reclaim Your Dreams I jumped at the chance for two reasons. First, I really love the blog and thought the book would be [...]

Accidental Branding

I just finished reading Accidental Branding: How Ordinary People Build Extraordinary Brands
by David Vinjamuri. It is a book about how ordinary people built extraordinary brands. They were people who needed a product, built it themselves, marketed it and built huge businesses; all without no formal business education at all.
The book tells the stories [...]

The Poison Tree, planted and grown in Egypt.

Poison Tree

I just finished this book by Marwa Rakha called The Poison Tree – planted and grown in Egypt and still can’t decide on what I think of it. The first few pages were tedious, boring and felt like I was reading a teenage girl’s hidden diary; full of anger, frustration and hate towards her [...]

Amy Mowafi’s Fe-Mail the trials and tribulations of being a Good Egyptian Girl

Book Cover

I asked my sister to get me this book from Egypt when she was coming because I had read a couple of reviews and was interested in what she had to say. I am always interested when young Egyptian female writers get published. I’ve always thought that the younger generations have lots of [...]

45 Days

45 Days Movie Poster

Ahmad Ezz El Deen (El-Feshawi) is a rich kid, convicted of killing both his parents and is sent to a mental institute for 45 days to confirm the state of his mental health. I am not a fan of Arabic movies in general. I don’t like silly comedies (El Limby style) [...]

Girls of Riyadh

Imagine a book that tells the tale of four girls’ lives, loves and losses. The setting is in the city Riyadh of Saudi Arabia. Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea, is like Sex and the City without the sex and in Riyadh instead of New York. Gamrah, Sadeem, Lamees and Michelle are the girls who [...]

Egyptian girls are blogging and being published

Last week I went to Cairo for a short weekend trip and stopped at On the Run, a little green book with a white bride caught my eye and I bought it. Titled “Ana 3ayza atgawez” meaning I want to get married, the book is the funny stories that Ghada has been through meeting [...]

Persepolis

I just read Persepolis: The story of a child and The story of a return, by Marjane Satrapi the Iranian Author/Artist. I am not sure if author is the right words here because the books are more of a graphic novel than a book. In just black and white graphics Satrapi tells her [...]

The incredibles, self esteem and raising smart kids

I subscribe to a wonderful podcast called ThePsychFiles by Michael Britt a psychology professor, he talks about everyday topics with a psychological twist. In his episode titled “How Do You Really Raise Self-Esteem? The Incredibles vs. American Idol” he touches on the subject of praising children on talent versus effort and how it really [...]

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