One of the icons of the 50s and 60s and music legends is Egyptian singer Abdel Halim Hafez. His voice is deep, melodic, and heart warming. He was primarily a singer but starred in many films and it is through these that my generation got to meet him. The black and white Egyptian movies are […]

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My birthday is Nov 8, isn’t this a coincidence? I was planning on waiting for the 2nd generation but it’s so tempting to not do that. Hmm…

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I was in Lebanon for x-mas and saw that we had a new 1000 Lebanese Lira note. That’s sort of the basic unit of currency and it is worth around 66 USD cents. Interesting things about money: 1- you can never have enough of it, 2- the paper it’s printed on says a lot of […]

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