Azmi Bishara has a lion share of the daily media we watch these days.. He comes from my beloved Nazareth - (EL Nasrah) city. and leads the Balad party he established.
Dr. Azmi resigned in the 22th of April after serving for 10 years in Knesset. leaving the charges against him unattended. He was charged to help Israel enemies in 2006 Lebanon war.

Away from the usual media chewing.. Azmi was a clear advocate of communism and Marxism and so on.. as well as a Christian-Arab voice of democracy. A fighter against the proclaimed American-Israeli democratic masks that are proven with time to be as we say.. good words for bad intentions..


To make it short.. where do we stand from Azmi ? is he our hero that fights for real democracy ? is he a new Jazeera tool - as well as Mohammed Haikal - to mix real life with communists/Nasserists dreams ? are we actually trying to fight through these people the overwhelming trend of western-style democracy ? are his wise and well said words actually listened to ?


I remember one time he was on TV discussing the GCC fear from Iran's possession of nuclear technology.. "GCC should be afraid of neighboring a real country like Iran. When we look at Iran, we see a country with a system and a vision.. when we look to the rest of the region, we see no countries - including the country-for-army Israel. In the GCC, the private and public ownership mixed up to make a mess. The country is a single person vision, and the army is a show for his power." .. well .. how far do we understand his advocacy for a new us through these words ?

This is his talk about the last colonial question..

I am posting this note as continuity of the last topic Content Consumerism - Arabs forgot to book a seat ? ..

I wanted in this note to underline the problem of abusing the internet in most developed countries, which creates a worse problem there because of the very limited access to the internet, as per numbers posted everywhere over the web. Very low penetration rates and out of this we have a very low development-oriented use..

so.. is it a use or an abuse ?

I tried my trends.google.com friend to give me a hint about the statistical usage of their search engine based on different search key words.. and the results were very shocking..

I tried comparing the following keywords..
book,
education,
sport,
news,
sex

5 keywords is the limit.. and here are the results:

World usage comparison of keywords - a more sex oriented world

The world is going towards looking for more and more sex over the internet, though the news trend is picking up where media companies turned the whole world into their story and story-tellers..

when we take a zoom in a country with one of the highest internet penetration rate, like US.. here are the results:

US usage comparison of keywords - news are as hot as sex for US searchers

Which gives us a hope that the most sexually-broadcasted country is up to something else..

wait.. we are not done .. the most shocking graph is still to come.. I picked Egypt as the biggest representative of Arab population.. want to see the graph ?

here it is..

Egypt usage comparison of keywords - if you don't have a porno site, no one in Egypt knows you. what about being a porn star ?

Very sadly and considerably broken, I have to leave the graphs and Google trends to tell you the rest of the story..

Different news media did a good deal of advertising for the new web era that brought up the web 2.0 concepts to the surface. All so-called content web / social web / I don't know what else it was called..

One of my smart professors, Imran Zulkernan, was surprised that these (silly - as per him) concepts of writing blogs or wiki's and so on are gaining significant attention. Why should we care ? - he asked..

well.. I was the TIME magazine's person of the year.. hahaha .. very funny abujayyab .. well, it is true that it is not a great thing to be in the TIME's person of the year list given that George W. Bush was there twice.. but we all share this disgrace of being the creators of a new era .. we are all to be the person of the year.. social content audience..

the controllers of the new technology .. me, you, him, her, .. all proverbs should have been the person of the year.. but is everyone included ?



A very sad fact pops-up about Arabs contribution to this new form of information.. given the sad facts reported in the Arab Development report by the UN ..

330 translated books/year to and from Arabic = 1/5 the ones to and from Greek
1000 years' translated books from and to Arabic = 1 year of translated books from and to Spanish !

Well .. i think we are doing as bad in the internet content era .. other Than Baba Ali's videos, we are all blamed for this lack of being there .. of participating as a part of the information cloud..

and by the way .. Baba Ali's content is not in Arabic ..yet it's related to a major part of them ..

how many times have you entered an Arabic Forum and got what you wanted? how many times have you entered an Arabic public chatting room and had a pleasant experience? how many times you have found a usefull Arabic open source community ?

We are ready to spend 25 hours a day reading books online, looking at others blogs, watching Baba Ali's videos, downloading torrents, and and and .. how much out of that have we contributed ? shouldn't we wake up ?

I think it is the time for everyone to act like the person of the year at least .. you should do better than G.W.Zeft .. I mean Bush..

Hey buddies..

sometimes.. especially after a really special moment.. we start thinking.. how many of these moments have we had ?

in a way.. if life was about either making memories or remembering them.. when was the last time..

- you had a real good conversation that you felt like being another person after it.. you felt like God gave you a special moment of realization.. and you felt like picking the phone and calling that person thank him/her for the good time !

- you read a good book.. you felt like writing a book to talk about that book .. you know what.. you felt like sending an email to the author telling him what you think.. maybe felt like gifting a close friend that book with your notes on it to share the thoughts and feelings you had !

- you've been in a situation where things sound so no-way-ish .. and a that moment hero leaves a trace in your heart with what one does.. they make you wonder.. why your words never put together your feelings towards them !

-you've had an inspiring teacher/professor .. that their words meant a lot to you.. their inspiration took you miles further.. their presence drove your imagination to new horizons.. where you felt like that you need to start quoting feelings instead of words to pay them what they meant to you..

-you finished what you were doing for a very long time in a perfectionist's sense.. you gifted your masterpiece to yourself before gifting it to anyone else .. you had your work done as you'd be proud of it.. where standards and rules shy away from judging your originality and innovativeness..

I will fall short of describing other moments that you have had for sure.. but sharing them will be a good light of hope to thoughts and feelings of everyone :)

To the man that passed away with his body.. and lived forever in our souls..

We owe you..
we owe your silence the million words that are said..
we owe your modesty the wisdom it carries forward to everyone..
we owe your teachings the passions it plants in us..
we owe your being.. living.. existence.. the appreciation of life meanings..

I took a single course with Dr. Soliman.. it was enough to carry my passion ahead.. to learn.. explore.. understand.. what the world from my little angle is about.. he never let me down in giving me the reason to learn more.. read more.. know more..

Ashleigh told me he he added the faith factor into her equations .. I'm sure there are a lot of people carrying faith planted by Dr. Soliman..

I just posted these words to give the tribute to a great man that passed our stage to another.. leaving us his virtue to carry forward..