A Little Gem From The “Afterlives”
I don’t think I’ll ever stop singing the praises of David Eagleman’s superb collection of short-stories, “Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives.” I remember when I bought it, I was...
Tagged: Life
If God Existed, Why Doesn’t He Show Himself To His Creation?
A few weeks ago, I was having a Twitter conversation with my friend @Seleucid about god and the creation of the universe. The discussion grew from British physicist Stephen Hawking’s...
Moments Of Clarity
One of life’s idiosyncrasies is that our moments of clarity only come to us when we’re on our way to hitting rock bottom, or when we’d already been living there...
Bruises
We bruise easily, but the bruises don’t go away simply. They become scars that we carry from our past to our present and then to our future.
The Moment Of Truth
If there’s a moment of truth, it’s the moment you face yourself for all the things you are and aren’t, for all the things you want but don’t have, for...
Note To Self And Selves
That’s life: you set a goal and you do your best to reach it, sometimes you achieve it, sometimes you don’t, but you can and should be proud of your...
Our Souls
Our souls last as long as our allotted bodies. And so, we wait. We live and we wait for that unknown expiry date.
This Is Lebanon: Family Matters More Than You
At a recent job interview, the interviewer asked me to tell him more about myself. But to know me, he wanted to know about my family. “Why are you asking...
To Have A Life
To have a life, we invest ourselves in the lives of others. There’s no One without the Other.
Gemayze, Wired
In broad daylight, power generators’ cables, which underline the Lebanese state’s failed services, are plain to see in Beirut’s prime clubbing/pubbing street. Background: Decades after the civil war, Lebanon still...
