Comments for WORDS FOR CHANGE

Comment on Morocco’s Shia Identity by Jamal

Jamal — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:29:43 +0000

Excellent read!

Comment on The Tale of the Bridge by analitikis

analitikis — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:24:42 +0000

Nicely told.

Comment on The Tale of the Bridge by Absolute Carmel » What do you need in order to trust again?

Absolute Carmel » What do you need in order to trust again? — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:17:39 +0000

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Comment on The Tale of the Bridge by samar

samar — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:24:26 +0000

You should try being a writer dear!

Comment on Moroccans Don’t Read The Coran! by benjamin

benjamin — Thu, 21 May 2009 03:31:14 +0000

I went through religious teaching and I hate it. The Koran, just the Bible is full of simple if not stupid stories that made no sense to me. The Koran was hard to read and made Allah look like he is real: bullshit!
Allah, Mohamed, Jesus, and Moses are all no different than the boogy man, Santa, and the Big Bad Wolf.
Religion worked before the Internet and the information age, religion allowed dictator to rule for centuries, it allowed some form of civil societies to exist in places where people were simple and can be potentially destructive, religion prevented many crimes and gave artificial peace to weak individuals. I am a Moroccan woman, and I no longer believe in Allah (Allah and Mohamed can kiss my butt, I hate religion because it is fake and the Koran is not worth the paper written on it.

Comment on My Blue Passport by Chrystal Ocean

Chrystal Ocean — Mon, 18 May 2009 00:01:32 +0000

“A humanistic project like constructing a new common civilization based on the Mediterranean shared heritage requires reconsidering the notion of the nation state itself and trying to construct a community based on common values while favoring diversity within elastic political borders.”

Am not sure why, but the above reminded me of the atevi culture, imagined by CJ Cherryh in her superb Foreigner science-fiction series. The atevi not only don’t recognize, they literally cannot conceive of geographical borders. They are psychologically unequipped to do so. For them, that which delineates one ateva from another are relationships and these can cross multiple lines and require different, sometimes clashing, loyalties.

Comment on My Blue Passport by Khadija

Khadija — Sun, 17 May 2009 23:02:54 +0000

In an undergrad English literature class, I was asked to write down three words that best described who I was. I penned: woman, Muslim, South African. The lecturer looked up to ask, “Do we know what it means to be South African?” At that time, some five years ago it was the type of question that leaves you stumped. As a young democracy, we’re still working on it, still repairing the fractures of a ravaging past, but moving forward.We recently overtook Brazil as the most economically unequal society in the world, we don’t want to define ourselves by the shackles of an ugly past but it is through shared experience that a social identity that straddles geographical boundaries is constructed.

Comment on My Blue Passport by Pregnancy Dates Calculator

Pregnancy Dates Calculator — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:51:58 +0000

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Comment on 18 Km by Tariq

Tariq — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:45:04 +0000

Hi,

I liked this text and the previous one very much.
There’s a new project about the standardization of Darija : http://www.ktbdarija.com . I thought that this link might interest you. The english version is not available yet, but the french and of course Darija versions a ready to be read.

Comment on Wine Sector in Islamic Morocco by With This Diet I Was Able to Lose T h i r t y P o u n d s in Thirty Days

With This Diet I Was Able to Lose T h i r t y P o u n d s in Thirty Days — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:15:48 +0000

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