Vie de Malchance

On the Ruwwad Youth Empowerment Project from The Common Language Project:

Many of the ideas for how the $25 million slated for the project would be spent were influenced by young Palestinians themselves who were brought together in Ruwwad’s Youth Forums. Omar Awartani and Zeina Amro, two 18 year old Ramallah natives, were both leaders of [...]

Here’s his Model Mayhem website.

He’s a model alright:

Last year, Osama Sabbah and Rasha Ali, 12th grade students from the Ramallah Friends School, proposed to the school administration that they be sent to Amman, Jordan as school representatives at the yearly Model United Nations (MUN) conference. It was approved as a pilot project with the understanding [...]

“A Completely Free, Open Event in Greensboro, NC – February 9-11 – Guilford College”

Here’s the schedule.

Here’s info on the Yachting Club.

From George Orwell:

Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side you automatically help that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, ‘he that is not with me is against me’.

Put the [...]

Supposedly, this a letter from Omar‘s brother at zizou from Djerba:

As some of you might have learned already, ast week , my brother Omar, a freshman at North Carolina state university engineering, was visiting his friends at Guilford college, an hour away from his campus. While my brother was hanging out with 2 of his [...]

From Inside Higher Ed:

…Never underestimate the power of irony in the American imagination. As one of about a dozen colleges in the United States tied to the pacifistic Religious Society of Friends, an attack at Guilford (and, by some accounts, a bigoted one at that) seems so paradoxical that it not only shook up the [...]