Props to Idaho

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-09-26-Idaho_N.htm

Okay, so according to usatoday, Idaho is the best, and I'm just impressed they made the news (go aimee, woot!). But really, can the potato market really sustain long-term economic growth? Whatever, I guess we'll never have enough french fries, potato chips, and even homemade potato guns. Go spuds...

my habibis!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hey guys! i hope everything is going well with everybody. sorry i havent stayed in touch...so i figured i will post something =) im glad to hear that everyone is doing great....well im back at school and things are going pretty good. i know u guys are dying to know about chris lol...well i told my mom =) but not my dad =( so i will keep everyone posted about what happens with that situation lol. and about this whole taylor university meeting thing, i definitely think that you should come to cali because im here lol. seriously though whoever wants to come out here let me know and we can party with the arabs =) i miss you guys very much!

~the coolest arab you know (i hope lol)
Iman

Check this out...

So I heard this pretty interesting story on NPR...priest both Muslim and Christian...what do you think?

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14348264

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003751274_redding17m.html

PS Is it just me, or is school not as cool as Egypt? I miss habibis, kosheri w Al-Qahira!

سالم
امى

i'm home

old friends and lovers (habibs)

i'm currently sitting in a coffee shop in philadelphia with josiah (ruthie's brother and my new roomate). i got here around 1am last night and am slowing down and sitting still after a summer of constant motion. i don't really know what i'm doing in the cosmic sense of things, but on a smaller scale i'm biking, talking music, and drinking coffee (really? yes really). i think that's all i'll say for now. live well and sleep often/live often and sleep well, salaam

http://www.myspace.com/autumnleafmusic (listen carefully, you just might fall in love)

What I did this summer

Some of you might have heard a little about my trip to Lebanon. It was always hard to explain exactly what I did there. Well, the two older people in the picture above are Donna, my grandmother and Phil, her friend and client. The dark looking arab in the picture is Eddy, a friend and business partner of Phil's. Before I had ever met Eddy, he heard from my grandma that I was going on MESP, and he wanted his relatives (his two nephews Alfred and Philip) to meet me if I went to Lebanon. While on MESP, I planned my travel there with the idea that I would kinda cater to these people's wishes of making another American connection. Well it turned out that I couldn't tear myself away from them. Alfred and Philip hosted and fed me when I needed it and showed me around their country quite a bit. After coming back, I decided to finally meet and greet the mastermind behind the whole operation (BTW, I think he ran guns for the christians during the civil war...) I invited this classy and successful lebanese businessman over for some Kosheri! (He'd never had it) My mom made taboulah, flatbread and hommos, and Eddy brought some Lebanese wine. To make a long story short, we are real chums nowadays!

Damn, I miss kosheri for 20 cents a pound! Does anyone recognize the tablecloth?



Ladies and gentlemen, my Grandmother...


Hope you are all alive n' cookin... ma'a salams!