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!lana

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About Me


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My Interests

"you must be the change you wish to see in the world" and "An eye for an eye makes the world blind" -Mohandas K. Gandhi

I'd like to meet:


friends from Cali, Texas, VA, MIST and WSAG--and irrationally, Socrates--I'M A BIG FAN...

Movies:

Voces Inocentes, West Bank Story, Heaven's City (Persian), Syriana, Devdas

Television:

LinkTV, UCTV, FreeSpeechTV--the rest is trash

Books:

love 2 read; Quran, Torah, Bible, Plato's Republic, Brave New World, Born Confused, They Dare to Speak Out, To Kill a Mockingbird, Emily Dickinson and Shakespeare.

Heroes:

The Prophet (s) and anyone stands up for their rights. Who stands up to everything and anything in the name of their morals and beliefs. It takes guts and a purpose.Arundhati RoyHoward ZinnAmy Goodman

My Blog

A Pakistainian in Jerusalem

It was the most beautiful and poignant place in the world for me. Jerusalem, the Holy City, surrounded with innumerable graves, many unmarked, its history saturated with death, warfare and magnificenc...
Posted by !lana on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:11:00 PST

Peotry I got the courage to put up...

Some peotry I wrote at different times and not the prettiest of times but still important  with no particular order Half Palestinian, Half JewHalf Palestinian, half Jew,What is this world coming ...
Posted by !lana on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 02:19:00 PST

I am going overSEAS!!!--read if you love moi

and MIST in houston was hugely successful DCMIST got 2nd best teams in nationals despite the fact that we were like the smallest and I won some awards too! I am going to Jordan (yes, peeps, even there...
Posted by !lana on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 03:30:00 PST

The Fellowship of WSAG (o6 Summer part 1)

Day One: I wore "I AM A MUSLIM" shirt at the airport--lol--what possessed me? I met Jessica from Atlanta, the Turks (Kudem, ConArda), Terrace from Denver, Puff, Sushi... and ssoo many people...
Posted by !lana on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 02:02:00 PST

Hijab

Asalamu 'alaikum waramatullah. I got this article in an email. French Dressing 4/6/2006 - Social Youth - Article Ref: TV0604-2965Number of comments: 50 Opinion Summary: Agree:42   Disagree:2 &nbs...
Posted by !lana on Mon, 29 May 2006 02:14:00 PST

My Class and I have our picture in the (Yahoo & Saudi) news!!

LOOK--Click me!!   LOLz, I was trying not to laugh--MJ behind me was like "SMILE FOR THE CAMERA!!"...
Posted by !lana on Wed, 17 May 2006 09:29:00 PST

My hero Grandpa died....

On the 26th of December my Grandpa died. He was an Israeli War veteran and in spite of that 11 days before his death he became Muslim, (Allah-u-Akhbar) by saying the Shahadah (There is no god but God...
Posted by !lana on Sat, 31 Dec 2005 11:38:00 PST

Sober Thoughts

Currently GamingPS2 Shadow of the ColossusBy Sony Computer Entertainmentsee related Sober Personal Thoughts: Wednesday: It was snowing and everything looked so beautiful--so... clear. We're ...
Posted by !lana on Sat, 10 Dec 2005 12:29:00 PST

MERRY EID MUBARAK and Pakistan Fundraiser

Bismillah MERRY EID MUBARAK!!!!!!!! Ramadan is over and I miss it. I feel it's harder to be even better, I can the change of heart--is it just me?  LOLz, kinda late, I know but I was busy.....
Posted by !lana on Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:48:00 PST

I am moving.....again (15th time) and you will click me if you luv me

Anywayz I am moving to VA so if you have been calling me or whatever and I haven't gotten back to you, you know why.... Well, as far as I can tell, we're moving (I think it's offical now, though).&nbs...
Posted by !lana on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST