Abed Hamdan

I was walking in the streets of Irbid city last night, when I saw an old man selling these..!

I only paid 1 Jordanian Dinar for the 175 Iraqi Dinars!

No, It’s not because I like the pictures of Saddam, I don’t like the man, but I’m just fond of collecting currencies.

you can find just anything at the streets of Irbid, it’s so unpredictable! Man, I love Irbid!!

I’ve noticed that most Egyptians are only aware of Ahmad Zewail as a noticable famous scientist because of his Nobel prize in Chemistry.

If you haven’t heared of the outstanding Egyptian-American cryptographer Taher El Gamal, then I suggest you go read his biography here.

The ElGamal algorithm is now used in the free GNU Privacy Guard software, recent versions of PGP, and other cryptosystems.

Im just trying to break the chain of depression among the blogs. So I decided to upload this video, my friend sent to me, and I don’t know if you have already seen it! I just love it ! lol

Now I KNOW I shouldn’t give a damn anymore and I should stop caring about everything in the world.

Why should I care about the whole world when the world doesn’t care about me?

The only one I should care about and apologize to is the man I see in mirror; It’s getting harder to live in this selfish world without being a selfish bastard.

Prof. Karen McCullagh is requesting bloggers to take this survey. She commented on my last post and she’s kindly asking us to take this survey.

Hi Abed,

I’m conducting an online survey to explore the privacy attitudes and expectations of bloggers.

Please click to take part in the survey: http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/privacysurvey/

If you participate you will be asked to answer questions anonymously about your blogging practices and your expectations of privacy when publishing online. All answers will be stored and analysed on a confidential basis.
The responses will be used to inform academic and policy discussions on blogging practices and attitudes towards privacy.

Finally, could you please encourage other bloggers to participate in the study.

It takes less than 5 minutes to complete the survey!

For further information on my research please visit
http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/staff/km.htm or, email:
Karen.mccullagh@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

I am a PhD researcher at CCSR, University of Manchester, England. I am sponsored by the ESRC and Office of the Information Commissioner, UK.

Many thanks,

Karen

I took the survey, it didn’t take much time! yallah guys, go and take it

Sunday,the 5th of November 2006 was one of the worst days ever. I’ve been deeply depressed last night, I’ve never been depressed this way since the year 2001. Very cold rainy night. Cloudy morning, it’s probably one of the coldest days of the year in Irbid city. I just went to university, without talking to anybody. My mind was paralyzed, as well as my body. I was like a dead blue body, giving a yellow smile to anybody that bother saying good morning.

I was thinking about the curse of being a Palestinian. Usually people at our age are depressed due to breaking up with their girl friends or because they didn’t get the latest fancy iPod. But being a Palestinian, means that you should always be stressed, watching the news, wishing that one day you will be able to see your cousins that have been thrown in the Israeli jails for the next 500 yrs for no reason or wondering about how could it be if your x relative is still alive.

You can’t meet any Palestinian family that haven’t lost one or two of its children. Not to mention living in the possibility of hearing that your uncle got shot because was buying bread.

What really hit me last night is the post of my dear friend Sharifo (Click Here for Sharifo’s post in Arabic) who worte about his friend that got shot in Gaza in the recent brutal, coward, immoral, scandalous, hopeless attack against Gaza. For god sake, more than 40 56 people got killed, more than 250 wounded, many children and women got shot for no reason! worse yet, It doesn’t seem to end anysoon, and this attack is approved by the fucked up super powers.

Sharifo’s friend, Hamza Al-Attar has been shamelessly shot by a coward terrorist Israeli soldier, he is in comma right now. Hamza is journalist works for a local news agency. Yes, a young journalist who has been in business for two months only. As Sharifo described him, he is a young, ambitious guy who works hard to make his dreams come true. But this is obviously a crime. It’s a crime to be journalist and let the world know the truth. It’s a crime to have dreams and to be Palestinian. It’s a crime to be a human being and live in Gaza. It’s a big a crime. It’s a crime to be Palestinian and live decently.

This unfortunate crime reminded me of people I’ve lost years ago, and I know how this situation feels, being shocked and numb. You’re extremely sad, but you shouldn’t let your enemy see you sad, you shouldn’t let your enemy know that his plans are affecting you. All that your enemy should see is strength, faith, and endless tolerance. Tears are forbidden, and sadness is something should be depicted by a smile. You should be the source of hope for everybody else even if you need hope more than anything else.

For Sharifo, I wouldn’t say much. I know this guy through blogs only, but I could sense his “Palestinianness”, and hence he will be the one who give everybody support even when he’s the one who need it the most.

=== Update : Video of Journalist Hamza getting shot, uploaded by Sharifo ===

=== Update ===

Sharifo said that Hamza woke up from his comma, but has serious damages in his lungs, please pray for him, and the other 250 victims at the hospitals of Gaza!