On December 21, Pan Am flight 103, a Boeing 747 en route to New York City from London, exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, by a bomb that was hidden in a suitcase (known later as the Lockerbie bombing). The incident was attributed to a terrorist attack planned and executed by Libyan intelligence. When the Libyan government refused to turn over the two accused intelligence officers for trial in Scotland, the ...

In October 1973, Egypt fought a liberation war against Israel to retrieve back the lands occupied by the Israeli army since June of 1967. That war witnessed the first use of Petroleum Oil as a weapon or as leverage to be used against enemies or supporters of one of the parties to the conflict. During this war, the Oil producing Arab countries, and in solidarity with Egypt, banned Oil exports to western Euro ...

After WWII, humanity strived for decades to prevent the eruption of wars and armed conflicts. Still, it never achieved success. Simply Utopia is against human nature. The stories from ancient civilizations and the books and verses of the Abrahamic religions tell us a lot about the first human conflicts and killings, Seth Vs. Osiris and Seth Vs. Horus in Egyptian mythology, then Cain and Abel in the three Ab ...

During what was called "The Arab Spring," which erupted in some Middle Eastern countries at the beginning of 2011 and resulted in the fall of several totalitarian regimes', there was a phenomenon, or an assumed conspiracy theory called "The Third Party". This third party was the unseen responsible person(s) for any act of violence, civil unrest, sabotage, or any aggression against the mass citizens who requ ...

When they were still at school, I remember how my children expressed their ecstatic happiness when they woke up one winter day, and we told them it was a snow day, no going to school. Their happiness is mainly driven not from being home but by the opportunity to spend the day playing in the snow with neighbors and friends. It is one of the pleasant moments for the parents as well watching the joy in their c ...

About two years ago, and just before the Pandemic, my friend was rushed to the Emergency one night, suffering from severe renal colic caused by a kidney stone, a pre-existing condition. As usual, the ER was packed; many people showed deep and different symptoms. Suddenly one of the patients, a senior person, loudly expressed his resentment and pain, waiting for a long time to be seen by a doctor.  One of th ...

- انتحار فتاة عمرها سبعة عشر عاما لم يصدقها أهلها بأنها بريئة من الصور الفاضحة المركبة والملفقة لها. - تحويل مُدرّسة إلى التحقيق بسبب رقصها أثناء رحلة مدرسية – فرحانة وتحب الحياة. - تصوير سيدة ترتدى ملابس بحر في شرفة منزلها وإحضار الشرطة لها. – عايشة بحريتها! - إلقاء سيدة بنفسها من الشرفة ومصرعها خوفا من بطش سكان عقار اقتحموا منزلها شكا في سلوكها. هذا بعض مما سمعنا عنه وشاهدناه مؤخرا في وسائل الاعلام، ولكن ...

For the last 37 years, we have been celebrating the New Year with a unique tradition called “The Courage Polar Bear Dip.” People of different ages go to the beaches of Lake Ontario and take a dip in the chilly water on January First. This tradition started in 1985, when Gaye Courage on the first day of the new year, challenged her two sleepy tired sons to leave the house and go to jump in Lake Ontario to wa ...

As stated in the first part of "take me back to the office," the economic and financial implications of working from home are more significant than social and psychological ones since the economy and finance impact a mass number of people compared to individual sufferings. Although from the social responsibility perspective, there must be no suffering to any one or more humans. As a result of working from h ...

Almost two years, and many people are still working from home since the government adopted such approach after the outbreak of the pandemic. Two years feel like forever to many people in the workforce, especially the jobs that are performed from behind a desk. In the beginning, everyone was pleased to work from home. They don’t have to wake up early to commute, no rush hours to and back from the office. The ...

Today I was supposed to continue discussing the growing road rage and the lax security in our streets and its repercussions to chaotic traffic and danger. However, on November 11, which is Remembrance Day, I was struck by another disturbing incident! At my workplace, we announced to workers and clients to pause for two minutes in remembrance of our falling soldiers and those who came back, defending our ver ...

I tried, many times, to accept how people’s behavior on roads has drastically changed, and how we are witnessing a new era of negative development with such behavior. When we point at the conduct of the road it involves pedestrians, drivers, or passengers in public transports.  Living in our great province with its wonderful cosmopolitan cities, we take it for granted that our governments possess and implem ...