Once years ago a trip to swedon was a must. I had to visit my brother and his family as he was estranged and we dont see him much, plus he lost a son and the last time i had seen hism was at the funeral in 1985. So I took my two children, left the little one with...
Not sure if you remember the movie "about time"? it's about the scientist who proposed to his girlfriend and moments later she died of a car accident, and then he figured a way to bring her back by inventing a time travel machine; alas, every time he tries she...
I wouldn’t call this a resolution write up. I might call it an un-resolution The last time I wrote my resolutions was in 2020 (https://www.suadalhalwachi.com/cultural-differences/what-a-year/) . It has been two years of living without any desire or...
الإمام الشافعي: "تَغَرَّبْ عَن الأَوْطَانِ في طَلَبِ الْعُلى...وَسَافِرْ فَفِي الأَسْفَارِ خَمْسُ فَوَائِدِ: تَفَرُّجُ هَمٍّ، وَاكْتِسابُ مَعِيشَةٍ، وَعِلْمٌ، وَآدَابٌ، وَصُحْبَةُ مَاجِد" There is an arabic saying (or a poem) that goes like this: Travel to other...
I have been to Istanbul and loved it so much, maybe I had gone there hundred times. So this is going to be only about two towns that I had visited for the first time. I did also visit the other main cities like Ankara, Izmir, Yalova and Bursa. My great thirst for...
I had always wondered who will be waiting for me when I get to the gate of the airport? maybe no one, maybe I will have to just take a taxi home, reminiscing on what would have happened if anyone was waiting for me? sometime I see their faces and be very...
My two friends of twenty years are ill with cancer. One is a heavy smoker, eating away anything just to keep her hunger off, the other one is fit as hell, food conscious and does sports in all its types. If you put both of them on the health spectrum one would be...
Do you know when you start a book (a novel or non fiction alike) and it goes slow in the beginning and then once you reach page 20 or so it starts to be an avalanche of words and pictures in your mind? well that is exactly how I feel whenever I reach that page. I...
While I was chatting with my son on the phone yesterday, and my daughter was listening to the discussion (I aways have my phone on speaker) he said something that startled me. Why did we grew up so fast? he said; a flash of memory took me back to the days when we...
Sometimes I wonder how I would be if I didn’t study abroad? Would I be shy, incompetent, less experienced? Would I lack of knowledge in what the rest of the world has to offer?. I will not know about the culture, the art, the tremendous enhancement in human lives...
2016 has been an amazing year, forget the finances and everything that went wrong with it, we do need to dwell on that. I was blessed with two new grandchildren, one started the year, baby Yousef and the second one in September, baby Layan. This blessing is going...
I have been visiting England since my twenties and have been hearing and reading about the Lake district, but had never actually visited it. few years back an educator and I had hit a cord together and we became friends. Every year since then we agree on a date...
