Thursday, September 1, 2011
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Monday, June 13, 2011
Writing and Publishing
During my search in BlogSpot users' profiles, for Bloggers with an industry of Publishing, I noticed the Arabian users mix between publishing and writing.
A lot of Arabian writers, novelists, authors & poets chose publishing as their field, not writing. I don't know why!
Maybe because BlogSpot didn't put category of writing or literature in industry's options.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Difference between Novel, Novella & Novelette
According to Wikipedia,
Novel: over 40,000 words.
Novella: 17,500 to 40,000 words.
Novelette: 7,500 to 17,500 words.
Short Story: under 7,500 words.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
6-6-1967 (International Jerusalem Day)
Quds Day... Tuesday 6-6-2011, the 44th anniversary of Oriental Quds's Occupation by the Israelis after the Setback of 67.
On Saturday 11 June & Sunday 12 June 2011, Quds's Conference (human right, nation responsibility) will be hold at
http://www.alqodsonline.net/conference/index.php
Sunday, May 15, 2011
15 May 2011, the Third Palestinian Intifada
Today 15-05-2011, 63 years passed since the cursed country the so-called (
As a result of 1948's war, a deportation was happened with the Palestinians and the international atlases still write the name of (
After the successive Arabic revolutions this year, the Palestinian refugees (Diaspora) want to return to their deserted villages & towns.
Friday, April 29, 2011
Monday, April 25, 2011
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Lovesickness
This funny news was published today Saturday 2 April 2011 in the last page of Al-Ahram newspaper under title (Lovesickness... A Scientific Fact).
The news talks about a study from
The study says: love-sickness & breakup-pain affect in the human body equally like the physical pains.
The brain doesn't distinguish between the physical pain & the emotional pain.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
Youssef Al Sebaie .. The Knight of Romance
Today Friday 18 February 2011 is the 33rd anniversary of Youssef Al-Sebaie's assassination.
He was an army officer, however he wrote the most famous & most beautiful romantic novels in the Arabic literature.
Many of his novels were transferred to movies, such as: I'm going away, between the ruins (remember me), a thing in my life, Nadia, my heart was returned back, love street and so on.
He got married of his cousin (Dawlat Taha Al-Sebaie) after long love story since the childhood. They had a son (Ismail) and a daughter (Bessa).
On 18 February 1978, two Arabs shot him in the lobby of Nicosia Hilton hotel in
His assassination caused Egyptian raid on Larnaca International Airport and breakoff of relations between
Monday, February 14, 2011
Valentine’s Day & the Noble Prophetic Birth (Mawlid)
Today 14 February is Love Day & tomorrow Tuesday 15 February 2011 is the prophet Muhammad's Hijri birthday, while his Gregorian birthday is 20 April 571 (elephant year).
Prayer & peace upon Muhammad, our great love!
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Friday, January 14, 2011
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Male Belly Dancers!!!
A very strange phenomenon began to be widespread in some Egyptian nightclubs, in
Males work as belly dancers!
I'm saying here males, not men, because they don't belong to the manhood in a thing.
Yes, most of them don't wear naked dancing suits, but they perform female movements.
Of course, I won't talk from an Islamic perspective because the dancing naturally is forbidden in Islam as for women or men equally, but I'm talking here about the human nature.
This phenomenon is against the nature of men. How can these males dance like the women in front of people? How are they husbands and fathers?
I think the male dancers in the famous American TV show So You Think You Can Dance are more respectable & serious because they perform Tap Dance, not a random dance.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
To Be a Mother for the First Time
On Sunday 24 October 2010, Allah gave me my first baby Mariam.
A new experience & a different feeling I cannot describe it.
Yes, it is a big responsibility, but it is a nice task to look after a tiny weak creature.
In the beginning, I was not enthusiastic much because:
1. I did not love the children in general before the marriage, only my nephews.
2. I was not ready to the pregnancy or qualified for bringing up a child, although I am 31 years old.
3. I was hoping to have a Natural Childbirth, but I had a Cesarean Section.
4. I was hoping to have a boy, but I had a girl. She is the first granddaughter & niece in our families.
But now, I think is Mariam the greatest novel I wrote in my life!
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
The 40th anniversary of Nasser
Today, Tuesday 28 September 2010, 40 years passed since the immortal president Gamal Abdel Nasser left our world.
Although, I was born on 23 September 1979, 5 days before the 9th anniversary of his death, but I'm still living on his glories.
A lot of Egyptians miss him. How much we need a man like him in these black days!
To his crystal spirit, I present this song:
I have an urgent letter to you – Singing: Om Kalthoum in
Sunday, September 26, 2010
ISNB in Egypt
The International Standard Book Number or ISNB is a number given to a book and often placed on the back cover to protect the book from the plagiarism & quotation. It guarantees the copyright for the author & the publisher because this number is unrepeated ever like the fingerprint!
By ISNB, you can verify your intellectual property, if someone plagiarized your ideas.
Locally in
But as usual, getting this local number is a costly thing and takes long procedures.
After the digital or electronic publishing & eBooks became widespread on the internet, Digital Rights Management or DRM appeared.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Ramadan Kareem
Today, Wednesday 11 august 2010, Ramadan 1431 A.H. started.
Happy Ramadan for all Muslims around the world!
Fasting, hotness, moisture & pregnancy will make Ramadan this year is very difficult as for me, but Allah helps us always.
Monday, July 19, 2010
Print on demand (POD) in Egypt
Simply, the service of Print/ publish on demand (POD) depends on uploading an eBook on a website and printing this eBook only when a reader demands a paper copy & pays its price beforehand.
Unfortunately, this service is still unavailable as for the Arabic books or the right-to-left writings.
Internationally, lulu.com is the most famous website offers POD, but in the Arabic world (22 Arabic countries), 3lsooot.com is nearly the only Arabic & Egyptian website which supports the Arabic books! It is the foundation of Arabic pen voice.
I know that one website only maybe is very enough, but unfortunately, 3lsooot.com doesn’t offer this service free like lulu.com! Therefore, I'm using the American website coyly!
Yes, the Egyptian website takes 30 USD as a fee of nomination for your book because it submits the book to publishers, not only to the readers!
This fee is illogical because the publishers maybe refuse your work & the readers maybe don't demand your book at all and in the end you will lose your money.
Likewise, the Egyptian story club takes 20 EGP as fees of participation in the annual literary contest, although the winning isn't guaranteed!
Both of them, fees of book's nomination & fees of participation in the literary contest, don't take into consideration the poor writers!
These fees are only for covering the costs of printing on demand or the annual financial prize. This is the only logical explanation!
Saturday, July 17, 2010
To be a wife for a year
Today, Saturday 17 July 2010 is the first anniversary of my marriage.
I confess that the first year of marriage is the most difficult year at all and sometimes it is the worst year in marriage, especially in the oriental societies, like
In the eastern countries, there is no a big chance to study your life's partner well before the marriage. The only true chance to study him or her is during the first year of marriage itself!
As for the Arabic Muslim nations, there are not a lot of permissions during the engagement period, so you find yourself suddenly live with a stranger in one home and you are forced to acclimate with him and accept him as he is!
Yes, the divorce in Islam is very easy & is not very expensive like the divorce between the westerns, but there are a lot of traditions & thoughts which control us. These traditions are often stronger than the religion.
In the beginning, clashes must happen between two persons from two different families, different environments, different personalities (natures) & different houses. Naturally, you are very sad during the first months in marriage, but with the ends of the first year, you find yourself calmer & happier!
In the first feast of my marriage, I'm proud because I made an achievement & skipped the difficulties of marriage in the first year!
Monday, June 21, 2010
Soaad Hosny, the Cinderella of Arabic Screen
On Thursday 21 June 2001, since nine years ago, the Egyptian multitalented artist Souad Hosni left us suddenly.
No one expected this bloody end for this comprehensive artist, who was an actress, singer, belly-dancer and show maker because she was very beautiful, laugher, vital & optimistic.
She fell down from Stewart Tower in
Until now, Scotland Yard could not define if it was a suicide or a murder by Nadia Youssry!
The some said it was a suicide because Soaad Hosny was very ill & became very fat in the last years of her life and the other some said it was a homicide because Soaad Hosny decided to write her diary & scandal famous Egyptian politicians.
The sister of moon, as she was called, died on Abdel Halim Hafez's Birthday!
Officially, she married four times & had no children. The some says that she married a fifth time from Abdel Halim Hafez secretly because both of them were afraid to lose their fans, but there is no any official document confirms this marriage!
But the strongest opinion that they were in love together only & didn't marry at all!
Saturday, June 12, 2010
The Building of the Ghosts!!!
None in
This old building which locates on
If you passed by it, you will find it very dark even in the noon. The sun doesn't enter it at all and the exhausts of the cars during 50 years made it black & dirty.
The building of Rushdie was built in 1961. Some people say it was built by a Greek man called Bardees who died drowned with his five children in a boat during a fishing trip & his wife sold the house, then she returned to
1. The first floor: Mr. Zareef died burned & his family deserted the apartment.
2. The second floor: a doctor established his clinic, and before opening the clinic, a car killed the doctor while he was crossing the street.
3. The third & the fours floor: a foreign company became bankrupt & its boss committed suicide.
But other people say the house was built by an Egyptian man. In the beginning, he intended to build a mosque, but he built this house. So, the curse inhabited this place forever & the owner died paralyzed & sorry for his deserted project.
Some people say it was built actually as an apartment building & other people say it was built as a hotel. No one knows the true.
The sheikhs read the Holy Koran in the building to exorcise the ghosts & the bad spirits, but without a result.
The building contractors tried to destroy the building, but the buckets of the loaders were broken.
In the end, the police was forced to block the entrance by the bricks & they left the garage works till today. And for that reason, some people see it's just a rumor because there is a conflict between the heirs and those people ask why the ghosts didn't live in the garage also?!
But if these were just rumors really, why no one could to continue in the building till now?!
I thought to write a novel about this building like The Yacoubian Building novel by Dr. Alaa Al Aswany, but I'm not interested in the world of the ghosts.
So, if you are fond of this world, you can write a horror novel!
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Faten Hamama 79th Birthday
Today, Thursday 27 may 2010, the lady of the Arabic screen Faten Hamama completed her 79th year.
She isn't just a star from the golden era of the Egyptian cinema; she was, is & will be a mark in the whole Egyptian history.
Happy Birthday to Faten Hamama!
Monday, May 10, 2010
Internet Forums Statistics
The statistics of internet forums are often:
Number of threads
Number of posts
Number of members
Number of currently active (available/ online) users (members & guests/ visitors)
Most users ever online
Number of blogs & entries
The question now to who is expert in the forums: is this counter changeable?! Is it possible to counterfeit these statistics?! How can we differentiate between the true forums & the false forums?! And why memberships' serial numbers are always bigger than true members' numbers?!
What's the better?! To join to a forum of numerous members or to create your personal forum & you are sure of the true number of members?!
Yes, the personal forum enables you to:
1. Upload attachments of any size/ type
2. Control in members
3. Create the departments which you want
But supervising & formatting a personal forum needs to an unoccupied person... Isn't it so?!
I need your opinion please!
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