Ramdan continues

Ramadan month continues, I have more time to spend helping my family, and spending time with them.
I guess its good for me, but also for them.

Most mornings I'm helping my father in our store. He surely needs my help. His health is not as good as it was before.

I think that this is a result of the past two years…my father nearly closed his shop because of the hard days- People could not afford buying things at the store because many people in ramallah are not working or didn't get any salaries , so they have no money, and when people have no money they cannot spend it...

My father decided to continue working, and keep the store alive. It made me happy, because I know how much he likes his store, sometimes I feel that the store is all his life. And that's the reason why I'm helping him.

I'm glad that I'm free at the mornings to help him, and I'm sure he will be able to continue working at the store in the future.

These days, I have much free time, because studies have not begun yet, but I know that soon I will be busy with university again.

I'm truly looking for my next year.

Only good things can come out of this year.

Yours, Asad.

Some Thoughts about the Ramadan

Ramadan has started And it made me wonder, not being allowed to eat most of the day for a month is quite a big thing to do.It shows a lot of strength and power, it is not so easy as people might think, and don't get me wrong.. Ramadan is a spiritual month, and the hardest part is mainly in the head rather than the stomach..The interesting and the sad thing is that if we are so strong (and we are!), how come we can't even save ourselves from..Ourselves??How come we are killing each other and widening the gap everyday, if we are so spiritually strong? How can one grasp such a thing ?

I would like to think, that people who have strong will and faith, will not kill their brothers, but in Palestine it's not a guarantee… I think I might keep on wondering about that, because no real solution was yet found… lets hope that Palestine will be more tolerate, and
peaceful for it's citizens.We must all remember that THE HOLY MONTH OF RAMADAN is a month of forgiving each other and of togetherness!!!!

Ramadan karim to us all,
Asad.

Ramadan karim

Dear friends!
Soon Palestine and the whole Islamic world will enter the holy month of Ramadan.
Here in our city and as some friends told me there is a feeling that this Ramadan will be a bit different from the Ramadan we had last year when most of the Palestinian didn't get any salaries and therefore the shops were empty and one could see most of the children with gloomy faces. This is the situation in Ramallah but….
Many Palestinian kids, especially in Gaza, are "celebrating" Ramadan fast almost everyday, despite the fact that Ramadan is only a one month in the calendar. These kids, sometimes have no food, so they can almost feel as if Ramadan is being "celebrated" the whole year.
I really hope that next Ramadan, I will witness a different kind of Palestine, a new Palestine that is not suffering of any poverty or shortage, a new Palestine that is united once again and not ruled by Hamas cruel people and by the Israeli occupation.

A free clean and pure Palestine.

I would like to send the world and especially my friends in Gaza and ramallah, many best wishes,

Ramadan karim my friends,
Asad.

WHO STOLE THE LIGHT?!

I was quite busy in the last few weeks because I was helping my father in our store and luckily for us we had quite a lot of buyers. Nevertheless I had some time to spend with my younger brothers and sisters and I took them to a fair that came to Ramallah ,and the kids and families enjoyed every minute of it. During this time a friend of mine from GAZA spent most of his nights in darkness.
I don't know if you heard but in almost every part of Gaza the light and electricity went out for about a week.
No, no one has stole the electricity, just 'Hamas beloved government' made sure that her citizens will suffer from lack of electricity...
Doesn't Hamas feel sorry for them?
Do they even care about them?

My friend has drawn a cartoon asking if there is really a light in the end of the tunnel.

Asad al nimr,

Ramallah.