“As we celebrate the anniversary, it is useful to look back at the story of your founding. It is the story of how faith guided the Jewish people through centuries of bitter exile. It is a story of how those living behind ghetto walls and barbed wire never lost sight of Jerusalem.” ~ […]

Here is a list of the best textbooks I read during my bachelor’s studies, in the order in which I studied them. What makes a textbook great is its organization, writing style, completeness, and the inclusion of complete and realistic examples to demonstrate the topics being discusses. A great textbook is also one which I […]

Murphy’s law in one of its forms states that:
Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time, in the worst possible way.
unlucky frog by steev-o under CC BY-NC-ND
I consider myself lucky, and things usually go the way I like, but it seems that I have lately fallen victim to Murphy’s law. […]

BBC News: “Palestinian invents queuing socks“. A Palestinian inventor/nurse, Maram Abdel Latif, from the city of Jenin, has invented anti “Israeli-roadblock” socks made from nylon and gel to help reduce the pain Palestinians feel in their feet from the long hours they spend waiting on Israeli road blocks. I predict that Palestinians will now need […]

According to Alexa rankings, the Korean internet portal DreamWiz is the 38th most visited site by Palestinians. The site offers free unlimited email and personal home page hosting. But, the strange thing is that the site is available only in Korean and the vast majority of Palestinans cannot understand it. Any explanation?

“Payment Modules with osCommerce” is a good tutorial for writing payment modules for osCommerce, which I need to do as part of my graduation project. I was not able to find any other guides or tutorials for writing payment modules, and osCommerce is poorly documented. The tutorial was even worth a digg.

Last Wednesday was a day to remember because I left Ramallah, the city where I live, to another Palestinian city for the first time in a little over six years*. I went to the village of Deir-Al-Ghusoon near Tulkarm to visit two of my friends who live there. You might have concluded that I am […]

I am running for the position of president of the computer systems engineering club. I came to this decision after a lot of thinking, discussion with my family and my colleagues. I was a bit reluctant because of the amount of time I will have to dedicate to this position, but I think I will […]