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As a child growing up in Egypt, my mother used to wish me a good sleep and happy dreams every night; and she would also ask me if I'd said my night-time prayers.
The world recently witnessed the shock of two heinous crimes committed by Muslim extremists, one the grisly murder of a French priest, the other an attempted assassination of a senior imam in Egypt.
One of Islam's greatest scholars was the Andalusian, Muhi-Al-Deen Ibn Arabi (1165 - 1240 CE), who was truly a "renaissance man" long before that name was applied to the 15th - century resurgence of arts, letters and science.
Considering that we humans inhabit less than 50% of planet Earth, why do we continually fight and kill one another over small pieces of its surface?
At age 73, I have rededicated myself to taking the best care I can of my body, mind and soul. Here is my personal “more and less” list. Perhaps many ideas here resonate with your life too.
It is rare to find anyone today who doesn't know one or more women affected by breast cancer.
I became seriously involved in Egyptian politics in 2003 when I was invited to address an international conference in Cairo about the imminent American invasion of Iraq.
I recently lost a dear brother to cancer, and another professional colleague three years ago. About five years ago, my sister underwent her first mastectomy due to breast cancer, and her second was done just last month.
As a boy growing up in Egypt, I would rather have faced a ferocious lion than a snake. I thought I'd have a fighting chance of survival with the lion and, if unlucky in the encounter, perhaps a quicker demise. With the snake, however, I believed my survival odds would be zero, and I would suffer a slow and painful death.
There was considerable irony and an uncomfortable tinge of hypocrisy when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently paid tribute to the late diplomat-activist Nelson Mandela at the United Nations, calling on world leaders to "champion democracy, human rights and the rule of law around the world."
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