A Drop of Joy

03Nov08

What is joy?  Can you define happiness? Measure it? Can you assign it an absolute value?
No.
Can you find real happiness in wealth, estates and other luxuries appealing to the senses?
No.
For a few days now, my extended family was deeply concerned and worried regarding the health of a much-loved member, my maternal aunt. Out of the [...]

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Tags: Cancer, Family, Joy

Is she a disgrace?

20Oct08

This writer has made some very valid points in his article, “Is she a disgrace?” in ArabNews, a very popular English-language paper in the Middle East. Having gorwn up in Saudi Arabia, I could relate to what he’s saying about the Saudi family when seen in public. 
Saudi society, I know well, cannot be considered as [...]

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Tags: Family, Saudi Arabia