Comment by Roba

January 24, 2007 @ 5:57 pm

Welcome back!

Comment by Qwaider قويدر

January 24, 2007 @ 7:47 pm

Welcome back Eman, don’t believe everything you hear, your life this your life that

With every threshold in this life, our life as we know it, ends and a new life begins. It’s really that simple.

A little Qwaiderization here; Change is inevitable, resisting it is unnatural, opposing it is futile, not accepting it is foolishness

Embrace the new change, enjoy the new stage in your life … and just … be as wonderful as you can be … make it as wonderful as you want it to be… After all … it’s YOUR life, what people have suffered from doesn’t necessarily need to reflect on you.

PS, Welcome to Qwaider Planet

Comment by nostra

January 24, 2007 @ 8:17 pm

Bon retoooooooooooooooour welcome back bel3arbi

Comment by Qabbani

January 24, 2007 @ 10:10 pm

Welcome back…..

Comment by Omar

January 24, 2007 @ 11:11 pm

Yeah, truly welcome back. I’ve subscribed to your feed and since then you went offline. Still i went on hoping and i now hope my patience will be rewarded.

Comment by Batir

January 25, 2007 @ 12:40 am

Among the many personalities that you are showing I hope the blogger personality will always be raedy for some nice posts to keep us in touch.

Comment by refugee

January 25, 2007 @ 12:50 am

Here is a quote from a book on Hinduism Tantra:

“This entire universe is a sport of Consciousness. One who is constantly aware of this is certainly a liberated being. Though in reality there is no bondage, the individual is in bondage as long as there exists the feeling of limitation in him. … In fact, there never has been any veiling or covering anywhere in reality. No one has.
Eman ,if there is one thing you owe us your readers ,you wight to make us assured you Eman well assure that you are well and able , you have to and often , we care for you as a mentor and next of ken .
try in fact to do it , you owe it is to us past and present and the future to come most of all ,the world gives trouble that is enough but the minute of our relation is a must to assure us and calm us all , Adam ,Marwan and your readers .keep it in mind and start at rectos us without devoting .

Comment by oranginaaa

January 25, 2007 @ 7:26 am

Eman, welcome back my dear!

Comment by Jimbo

January 25, 2007 @ 12:42 pm

Welcome back on the air, Eman. As you can see, you’ve been missed.

The only woman I ever knew to not be fundamentally changed by having a baby was a very bright, very shallow person who so looked forward to having a child because everyone told her how it would very much alter her perception of life. Five months post-birth, she [says, “You know how you guys told me that having a baby would change me?” “Ah, yeah?” “Well, when is that going to happen, huh? When?!” she demanded. (When last heard of the baby was eight years old, living with her Dad, and Mom had moved on to a new life in California.)

Your a passionate bright fighter for justice, Eman, and you write very well. (So well I sometimes have to remind myself that English isn’t your mother tongue.) The rule of successful writing–other than dogged determination–is of course to write about something you know well and enjoy communicating; your work diaries were a joy to read, reminding us all that people have lots more in common than not: exploitive bosses, imbecilic co-workers, courage, good-humor (exhaustion.) I think whether you wanted to be or not, you’ve become a antidote to much of the boiling anti-Arab sentiments out there, brushing aside stereotyping and touching the basic themes that unite us all: good-humor, parenting, perseverance, the fragility and transience of people in an age where climate and conflict threaten us all.

[The preceding is much too long a paragraph and the semi-colon indicates the need for two sentences vs. one. ]

I did write my first novel while taking care of our first daughter, working days and being Mr. Mom at nights while my wife attended school. It can be done!

And what’s going on at Guilford College this week?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070124/ap_on_re_us/guilford_assault_4

Guilford’s a Quaker school: pacifism, reasoned dialogue, brotherhood of man, stuff like that. Tantamount to Buddhist monks brawling in a temple. Of course, it was the football players…steroids shrink the brain. (Shrink other parts of the male anatomy, perhaps the players have a self-esteem problem.)

So, why are you sitting there reading this? Go write!

Comment by Eman

January 25, 2007 @ 5:32 pm

Thank u all for your sweet comments, I’m glad to be back and hope I’ll keep it up.

Omar, hope I wont let you or any of my readers down.

Qwaider, thanks for the insight, I appreciate all what you said and great Planet thanks for having me in it.

Refugee, friendships are priceless and yours is a really appreciated one. Thanks for the thoughtful quote and I promise to never let any of you down.

Jimbo, wow! you wrote a novel and you had a kid already! see, this is limitless potential, what was it called?
and thanks for the news and all your emails.

Comment by Elizabeth Toumi

January 26, 2007 @ 12:59 am

You’re all that and a bag of chips girl!!! Welcome back….it’s nice to hear from you….you inspire me- I think that you’re so so so so cool! I’m your #1 fan in Sfax. Ditto to Jimbo- She writes very well-incredibly actually. I am a native English speaker/writer and Eman puts my writing to shame!!! You have it going on Eman!

Comment by Karen

January 26, 2007 @ 4:02 pm

I am writing to ask your help in publicizing a groundbreaking essay contest on Civil Rights in the Middle East to your readers. The contest is sponsored by the Hands Across the Mideast Support Alliance,HAMSA, and seeks to advance discussion about the importance of individual rights in the region. Winning essays can earn up to $2,000 in cash prizes.

The contest’s debut, last year, drew some 2,500 essay submissions from the US and the Middle East. We hope to build off of that success this year, and with your help we can extend an even greater platform to the next generation of young civil rights activists.

Please consider alerting your readers about this opportunity. I have included a message to students below, and promotional materials (including web-ready banners, flyers and posters) are available at http://www.hamsaweb.org/promo.

Thank you for your consideration.

Karen

Comment by Eman

January 26, 2007 @ 4:35 pm

Elizabeth, your comments are very much appreciated dear, I’m glad to know you like what I write, and hope that soon we’ll be able to meet in person. Whenever you have a trip to Tunis and have the time, I’ll be more than happy to meet you.

Elizabeth & Jimbo,
guys, I’m really flattered and I’m so happy to get a great feedback from such great, educated and open-minded people like yourselves.
Actually in my earlier reply to Jimbo’s comment I totally forgot about thanking him for his sweet words and support, reason was knowing that he’s written a novel while taking care of his daughter, which is such an accomplishment!
And now you too say all that nice stuff I’m really out of words!