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From the power to tweet to the power of music

I woke up Friday morning and it was just another regular day. Except that day, I didn't really feel like working. So I decided to explore the twittersphere which I've only been familiar with for the past few weeks every since we started the Sawt Ashabab project.

One of the most amazing phenomenon that Twitter related lately was the Iran Revolution, with countless number of tweets, retweets, bitly and other technical terms that I have yet to completely understand.

My apologies go to the revolutionaries in Iran and across the globe, but POP came in bigger when Michael Jackson passed away Thursday night. The twittersphere and many other social networks went bezerk and started posting frenetically about the king of pop's death. Videos were viewed, albums were sold, prices of songs went up, articles were posted, reference pages were created, and most importantly, people around the globe decided to gather for one last moon walk dance.

Active twitter fellows in Lebanon decided to throw an impromptu last minute gathering in Gemmayzeh in front of Torino and naturally, all of us tweeter/geeky/web freaks followed the movement. We met up at 10pm, shy gathering of 25, courageously accompanied by many brave journalists that had to defend our march for MJ against the ISF. But once the music started playing, everyone was dancing. From Torino, to the stairs of Gemmayzeh, to White and Sky and the many other pubs and clubs that played MJ's songs, we payed a tribute, happily celebrating the life of a legend that contributed so much to POP!

Picture by Ramzi Haidar, Reuters (AFP)

It was a fantastic night, met a lot of great people, delved a bit more into the power of social networking and citizen journalism and felt, for a split second, part of the great gathering of humanity around the globe, celebrating music.

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Videos on Youtube; Pictures on Picasa

Beirut Moon Walk Dance on Euronews, Reuters, Ninemsn, Blogging Beirut , Daily Star , Plus961.com

just BEAT it - Beirut Moon Walk Dance

Twitter Lebanon dancing the Moon Walk in the streets of Gemmayze on June 26, 2009

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Pictures on Picasa

Daraj el Fan

More pics on Picasa

Serre moi - tryo

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I believe we are in one of the greatest crises, a moment of the deepest self-reflection of humanity.

Whether we recover from it, whether we become masters of this crisis, is a question of our strength.

It is possible...


-Nietzsche

Into the island

Presque 3 ans après être passée par ce petit aéroport en route vers l'exil, j'y retourne soûle de soleil, de mer et de sérénité. Ces vacances étaient si bien méritées et j'en ai profité au maximum.

En 6 mois depuis mon retour, je commence à me retrouver. Mon âme sensible, mon ambition démesurée, ma positivité exacerbée, ma féminité expansive, ma flamme de militante.

De rêves de collaborations régionales à des plans d'explorations, de pas de danse enflammés à des moments de sensualité intense, de plages touristiques à des lieux de spiritualité historiques, je me suis expanouie dans mon humanité la plus complète, la plus généreuse, la plus expressive et surtout la plus amoureuse.

J'ai fait ma cure. Le choix de ce que je dis, comme le choix de ce que je ne dis pas. L'amour, les rires, les mots, le farniente, la passion, la spontanéité, l'émerveillement, la sérénité, la plénitude, l'humilité, le bonheur, la simplicité de l'être.

Tara, Wael, Francesco, Christabella, Louis, Moise, Guimauve, Clément, Janos et bien d'autres visages qui m'ont vue, marquée, acceptée dans toute ma folie, relevée au plus haut point d'extase, enivrée de bonheur et d'idées, je vous remercie.

Nicosia, Agia Napa, Cape Greko, Protaras, Limassol, Larnaka, Kiti et bien d'autres paysages qui m'ont inspirée, fait rêver, sourire et contempler, je vous remercie.

Au soleil, à la mer, au ciel et aux étoiles, vous êtes mes guides dans ce long voyage. Je vous fais aveuglement confiance et pour votre générosité, fidélité et persévérance, je vous remercie.

A toi Chypre, a toi Liban, mes âmes sœurs, mes moitiés qui se complètent, je m'offre à vous pour qu'un jour toutes mes idées idéales se réalisent.

Et toi, ma méditerranée, ma mère, mon jeu, mon moi, je t'aime :-)