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these bengees are upto no good!!

Art Mart

A lot of what i have to face in the academic world has to do less with the real world and more with the perpetual jargonistic attitude of the 'DWM' as noted by Dag in his explication of tradition. Thankyou Dear Vagabond school Teacher. You may be empathetic towards those who are under excruciating terms and conditions i.e amatuer dilettantes like me but dont you worry. Almost through out the year vacuous pseudostatements of the Dead white men in several attempts of 'canonized' literary texts, instead of confining us in their Kingdom of boredom, they actually loosen our shackles of axiological skepticism, for now it is politically ever correct to twist in the mist of Western literature as they are already able to shoot while they loot in the midst of the great war in East.

I wrote of tradition, and now i see that it is true to most people in the West that Tradition is seen as somethink akin to moral and intellectual fly-paper. Only what is new is interesting to them, all else being "so yesterday!" Comes to mind the reduction "DWM". Anything written or conceived by dead white men is seen to be bad, uncritically so, and unarguably so. God help us, we are swarmed by teenage fools with grey pony-tails. People have no better understanding of the term Tradition than they seem to of Revolution.

---- Dag


Who gets to say what's beauty and what's not? Like Yvor Winters' decisive nature to rank-order artists or the rest of the DWM labelists who 'intellectually' quarelled on evaluation of fact and value in the literary academy for a living must've enjoyed every bit of the 'Philological Phoolosophy' as much as I am despicably enjoying right now. So as a Traditionalist I wish to show gratitude towards them by condescending them from Dead white men to the Dead whimsicles, which ofcourse by no means do I propose to effect the well abbreviated DWM. Which offers them the same credit card with the same intrest rate but a different reward option that will let them earn their "art miles" faster, quicker and cheaper under economical terminology.

If one feels that she/he is still undergoing torture from impositions of the Dead Whimsicles' justification in the science of fact and value evaluation , the only way to make sense of the melodrama is to perceive the whole by condescending in a subjective arena where in its dwellers are a similitude of those who swim in deep axiological skepticism. The methodology of which is constantly altered, changed and improvised in an egrigrious manner to an extent that it has been taken for granted by scholastic wits who collectively turned it into a public restroom where the responsibility of tidiness is often abandoned and left for the next one to come. With this normative attitude, methodological researches has left no choice for the offcially employed janitor but to quit her/his job.

Ramadhan

Meshary Al Arada

Masha'Allah, May Allah grant him paradise

Garangao/Qaranqao

Garanga3o garga3o
3a6una Allah y36i kom
beit mkka yiwadikom...

It is the middle of the blessed month, Ramadhan, a time that maybe insignificant anywhere but in Qatar. As children on this night every year we have expereinced the celebaration of what may be called the "Khaleeji halloween". These nights are indeed special and tacitly celeberated with passion by elders,youth and children of the Khaleej. As a part of this celeberation children sing the 'Garanga3o' song, they sing it for the household members who are expecting visits from diverse groups of children. The household members, usually the women prepare a day in advance for this night with thier large sacks of sweets, peanuts, walnuts, ground nuts and every other seed one can think of subsuming a small toy or a small amont of money as a gift. Children gather with eager and excitement and hurrily commence on a "nutting night out" from one door to another with the magical co-ordination of the harmoniously vocalized sounds resounding in the hearts of the neighbourhoods . By the end of the night they bring home different types of seed fruits, sweets, and gifts ranging from original to commercial, enjoying the kernel of thier effort by sharing thier collections with one another.

What goes unnoticed is the transperancy of the likeness of this tradition, like halloween this Gulf tradition is not only centered around the subjects of children, sweets, gifts and to a certain extent commercialisation, but also the phonetic transcription of the word 'halloween' sounds very much if not exactly like 'hilween' in the Qatari-khaleeji slang dialect and 'halawa' in the standard Arabic language respectively meaning 'sweet ones' and 'sweet' or 'goody'. This transparent interconnection between the Pagan American and the Islamic Arab spirits of festivity leaves a cultural trajectile both crossing at the point of 'sweetness' and prolongs back to thier own aesthetic realms.

Bismillah, Walhamdulilah Wallahu Akbar...

The bell has rung
The sky has changed its veil
A different blue, tacit red and vivid green
Allah has commanded the mashriq and maghrib
to endure like it has never been seen
Deep oceans have echoed out a cool breeze
Trees, rocks and mountains obey firmly
The moon smiles to the new veil
the stars sparkle for what they mean
the sun shines and the rest performs accordingly
Wishing you all Ramadhan Kareem

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Anti-drug Video

Anti Drug song performed by Rashid Bhikha, written by Abdul-Malik Ahmad of Native Deen from the album Allah Knows by Zain Bhikha

"Kick Push"

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Audiobooks and Podcasts

An Audiobook is a recording of the content of book/novel in a tape,cd, mp3 format etc. Podcasts have a similar function, but podcasts is similar to a serie and an audiobook is to a movie. They can be found through websites, free or by pay.

Audiobooks and podcasts are cool because they are read aloud clearly, with good quality. Now we can read books while driving, running or whateverit is that we are doing, we don't have to hold the book with our hands , we can be cooking while reading at the same time. However I found the purchase plans unappealing, simply because I only listen to certain audiobooks and podcasts that are free. The samples I have gathered below are some of my favourites, feel free to check them out.