Little Did He Know; She Wasn't His Mother!

I have this friend that I know from way back; we grew up together. One day as usual, we were chilling at Nile Street at one of our favorite quite spots where we can sit in peace, drink coffee, and talk about life as we see it and as we want it to be, and discuss all our major and minor issues and also the little things we laugh about and day-to-day activities. Our conversations and talks are always about things that matter; things that benefit us and the people around us. Mohanned is like the brother that I never had, I thank God for the love that we share. So after we finished our coffee and I doubled, we put on our headphones and listen to music while taking a walk at Nile Street before hiding back home, the distance between our homes and Nile street is very short; 5-10 minutes on foot. I called my mother at home asking her if there's food left for me or not because if there's no food left, I would buy some before going home, I called her from Mohanned's phone because I didn't have credit on mine at that time.

That day particularly we stayed at Nile Street for a very long time, on a normal day we head back home at 11 o'clock or 11:30 but this time we barely finished our coffee at 12, I guess the weather was refreshing and tempting; that's why we lost sense of time. Anyways we decided to head home at 12:15, so we stood up, paid the guy, and started walking while playing music through our headphones.

Few minutes later Mohanned's phone started ringing, he didn't really pay attention to the number, so he just pushed the green button and answered, as he started talking I knew it was his mother. The phone call ended and he said to me "it's my mother, she was worried that I didn't arrive home at the time that I usually arrive at..." and I said with a smile on my face "alright let's hurry up then, we don't want mama to be worried, don't we?!".
So we started walking faster, Mohanned was holding his phone and he noticed that the number that he answered a phone call from few moments ago wasn't his mother's number or one of his family members number! He asked me if I know the number, I looked at the number and guess what I saw! It was my mother's number! Can you believe it? What happened actually was that my phone's SIM card is MTN and it's known by the weakness of it's coverage; basically my mother called me on my phone and it wasn't available so she called me on the number that I called her from earlier asking about food! And that number was Mohanned's. Wait that's not all, did you notice that my mother was talking to Mohanned and believing that she was talking to me?! and also Mohanned was talking to my mother believing that she was his mother?!

Talking about friendship and how deep and strong it could be. How it could create bonds between not only individuals; but individuals and their families.

This is a true story that happened in real life. 

فساد التعليم العالي و علبة التونة! - قصة قصيرة واقعية على لسان صديقي حليمو ذيدون

المشهد الاول:

طبعا قبيل الصباح مشيت الجامعه وشلت معاي رسوم القسط التاني، بعد وصلت البوابه ومرقت البطاقه اتفاجأت بالحرس بشم البطاقه و بقول لي: بطاقتك منتهية امشي جددز دي بي فووق, يعني قاصد: "امشي يا **** سدد الرسوم"، فقلت ليهو: "أنا عندي محاضرة حسي الساعة 9 بعد 5 دقايق وهدي الرسوم في جيبي خليني احضرا وبعد داك بمشي اسدد"، قال لي: "لالا والله لو اتمسحت بي فازلين ما بخليك تخش"، طبعا في اللحظه ديك انا اندهشت واتأكدت تماما انو الحرس ديل مخهم زي حجر الدلكه، ما بفهمو نهاائي، ياخ انا طالب في سنه تالته يعني ح ازوغ وين وانا قطعت نصف المسافه الدراسية! هسي البطاقه دي فرقها شنو من علبة التونه ؟! الاتنين عندهم مدة صلاحية

المشهد الثاني:

مشيت مكتب القبول، حيث البنشات والمكيفات البارده والقلوب البارده برضو! وطبعا كنت واقف في صف عامل زي لعبة (Zuma‏) والناس تتحكحك من بنش لي بنش. حررررم نضفنا البنشات كلها، بعد شويه جات بنت نضيفة كدا، نجفه بسسس. جات شايلا قروش وحاجــات تانيـــة! حامت شويه كده في مكتب القبول مده 11 دقيقة ومرقت شايلا البطاقه! . . عملتا كيف انا ما عارف، كبتو لـ كريس آنجل زاتو المايندفريك داك زاتو! وأنا واقف ساعه ونص في صف اولو عندك وآخرو عندي.

المشهد ثالث:

وانا بفكر مع نفسي، قلت احسن البس طرحه، تاني قلت لا عشان يمكن يشيلو رقمي، تاني فكرت البس كارينا تاني قلت لأ بتكون ظاهرة لانو ما عندي مؤهــلات علميـــة! تاني فكرت البس اسكيني وكعب عالي تاني قلت لأ بعدين المشي بغلبني وبعفوني من الرسوم وبتاع!

كسرة:

انا بقترح انو الطلاب يرمو بطاقاتهم في البيت ويشيلو بدلها علبة تونه ، "تونه الوابل" بالذات لانها سمحه وبتنفعك وقت تجوع والبطاقه لا تسمن ولا تغني من جوع ! ! !



محمد عبد الحليم\حليمو ذيدون - جامعة العلوم والتقانة.

Equalization Between Genders - For a Better Tomorrow

Equalization between genders is a very important issue and it really needs to be addressed over and over again until we find that women and men are not being discriminated according to some ignorant measures. As I can see, the fight will never end between genders; that's why equalization comes and puts things in their right perspectives in order to reach a certain amount of satisfaction towards each other. Simply women and men are equal. Religiously speaking; Islam puts these whole matters of equalization in to the right perspectives. The fight will never end if people didn't put Islamic point of views about equalization as their reference. Equalization between genders is a very delicate issue, one can not simply give one clear and perfect judgment, it's not stable, it changes constantly as people and their mentalities change.To make it easier for you, each gender has a significantly different emotional intelligence profile. Women have much stronger interpersonal skills than men; men have significantly higher sense of self and independence. This means that women are much more aware of their own feelings as well as those of others and relate much better inter-personally than men. Men however score more highly on self regard and independence than women and also do better on dealing with events that are immediately stressful. In the past men have dominated the top positions, partly because of their stress tolerance and independence, but people skills are now becoming more important as a culture of team working and partnerships takes effect. Women's higher scores in the interpersonal areas will now help them reach higher levels in the corporate world. This is especially true if they also develop high stress tolerance. Men need to develop their empathy to balance their strong independence scores.Imagine the out come of combining the two genders with their qualities and power points together in a healthy co-operative environment; the out come would be so damn stunning and amazing I suppose! And it will reflect in every way and on every level; politically, economically, professionally....etc. But that could only happen when we believe in equalization.

المشاكل والامراض الاجتماعية التي تواجه جيل اليوم - 1. عقدة دراسة الطب

• عقدة دراسة الطب 

المدخل الاول:
 كان ما قريتي طب انا ما راضية عنك حتى لو اضطريت اقريك بالملاين لازم تقري طب وتبقي دكتورة عشان اغيظ بيك عماتك وأغيظ صحبتي فلانة.. كانت امها تكرر لها هذه الكلمات كلما حست انها انحرفت ولو قليلا عن دراسة مادة الأحياء والتفوق فيها. هكذا هو موقف معظم امهاتنا تجاه بناتهن او اولادهن. نحن كمجتمع سوداني نحب او نكاد نقدس الطبيب؛ من يعلم ربما لانه يجسد المنقذ والملاذ من العلل والامراض والألام وبالاضافة لذلك المكانة الاجتماعية الرفيعة التي تمتع بها المتعلمون في زمن مضى وخاصة الاطباء لذلك اصبح اليوم طموح او رغبة من هم من ابناء الجيل السابق ان يخلقوا من ابنائهم وبناتهن اطباء وطبيبات لكي يتقاخروا بهم بغض النظر عن رغبة ابائهم وبناتهم. هذه المشكلة الاجتماعية تفرعت منها مشاكل اخرى كثيرة سببت ضرر كبير لشباب وشابات اليوم.

المدخل الثاني:
نحن كبشر معظمنا يحب ان يظهر للغير على انه الافضل فعندما اصبحت مهنة الطبيب شيئا يفاخر به او مقياسا للافضلية الاجتماعية  اصبح الناس وخاصة ابناء الجيل السابق يصورون لابناء جيل اليوم ان الطب هو الشئ المثالي الذي يجب دراسته. لذلك تولد نوع من الكبت في داخل ابناء جيل اليوم حيث انهم لا يستطيعون ان ينفذوا او يدرسوا ما يريدون! وذلك من شأنه ان يولد سلبيات كثيرة جدا جدا وابسطها فشل طالب الطب في حياته الاكاديمية خلال دراسته للطب الذي يدرسه بالرغم عنه! وامتداد لهذا ان يتخرج اطباء غير جديرين بمزاولة مهنة الطب على ارض الواقع وانما فقط اجادوها على الورق. ناهيك عن الضغط النفسي الذي يواجهه الطالب\الطالبة! والحساسية التي تخلق بينهم ةبين والدينهم!

يتبع...

Winning is the Only Thing

"Winning is everything, huh? Nah winning is the only thing" -Snoop Doog.

"And the winner of this year is... Mohamed Attia" -The man in the Black suit said. 

About a year ago I was reading the news-paper; the advertisements section to be exact. I usually read the advertisements which are written in English first, I don't know why, I just love English language. What really captured my attention was the word "Competition" and in less than a second after reading the whole advertisement I knew I had to participate and win.

The next day I went to E.S.L. English language international training center\Khartoum-Sudan, where the English language competition took place. That girl was attractively speaking to me with this wonderful British Accent; she was telling me about the competition and what's required from me. She gave me an application and I started filling it; when I completed filling my personal information and academic level information -I was a junior student in college at that time- I moved to the competition categories, there were four categories: the debate, drama, poetry, and the spelling bee. little did I know; I was supposed to choose only one category to compete in! However I chose the debate; if you personally know me you will know exactly why I chose the debate!

The first and second levels of the competition were quite easy for me; we had to debate on one subject on each level, the first one was about uniforms of schools and universities in Sudan and whether it's a must or not to have a uniform, I was against having it as a must and I proved my point and won and went to the next level. The subject was little bit different this time, it was: whether it is right or wrong to discuss political issues as classroom topics and each one of the two competitors -including me off course- should take a side, Against or With. I was against discussing political issues as classroom topics and I won; again. Please keep in mind that we were not debating according to global perspectives, our opinions and point of views were supposed to be based on Sudan's community and the reality we are living in. 

Here I am on the finals, competing for the final price and the prestigious title. The subject they chose for us to debate on was a tough one: "Does Sudanese schools help students reach their dreams or not?" and guess what; I did not believe that Sudanese schools helps students reach their dreams. Obviously because most of the Sudanese schools policies really discourages the students and takes away their dreams slowly through their corrupted and stupid teaching techniques and ignorant personality-lacking and knowledge-lacking teachers and inappropriate curriculum materials. You will agree with me if you are aware of the Sudanese educational system. And that's how I won; by demonstrating those reasons to my competitor and the judges and the audience. By the way did I tell you that my father was sitting on the first line among the audience supporting me? His presence really helped and motivated me.

The judges were really impressed about this brilliant speaker who was able to grab all the audience attention smoothly and also was able to control him self under all the pressure while speaking through the mic on stage. Little did they know; he is a professional on-stage entertainment performer\host. Not surprisingly, that person's last name was Attia!

Through this wonderful experience I've gained a lot, academically, socially and financially. My English language got improved a little bit and my accent got better. I met new people and made new friendships with some of the competitors. I also earned a chance to brag a little bit and satisfy my ego as I told my English teacher at college about this experiences, and guess what? He asked me to go and stand in front of the class and tell all my fellow students about my experience and this competition that I won, and that was to show that participating on activities outside of the college range is really helpful.

مقالة مختصرة عن صراع الاجيال في السودان

"ده جيل ما نافع"..."انتو شباب فاسدين وما نافعين وما عندكم انتماء للوطن"...
"ما راجين منكم حاجة"..."نحن لمن كنا قدركم كنا ناس واعين وبنتحمل مسؤوليات, ما زيكم"...
كلمات وعبارات يرددها أبناء الأجيال السابقة من أباءنا وأمهاتنا ومن تجاوزت أعمارهم الأربعين أو الخمسين. ماذا يعني لك ذلك عزيزي القارئ؟ 
مهما كان تفسيرك لهذه الظاهرة وهذا الكلام فلا بد من ان تتفق معي على بعض النقاط الجوهرية. 

الزمن والمبادئ لا تتغير من تلقاء نفسها، ولكن النفوس والمجتمعات تتغير تبعا لتغير ولاة الأمور ومناهجهم في الحكم وسياساتهم والمسؤلين وطرق تسييرهم لما هم مسؤلون عنه ومكلفون به وبذلك يغير الناس الزمن. ماذا تتوقعون عندما يهمل الشعب؟ ماذا تتوقعون عندما لا يهتم ولاة الامور والمسؤلين بتوفير ادنى مستويات التنمية البشرية كالصحة والتربية والتعليم والتثقيق لشعبهم؟ ماذا تتوقعون عندما يمنع ولاة الامور والمسؤلين الشعب من ممارسة حقوقه وابسطها حقه في الاختيار والحرية والترفيه والتنفيس عن ما في نفسه بالطرق التي يراها صحيحة مع تحمله لما يترتب على ذلك من سلبيات ان وجدت؟ ماذا تتوقعون عندما يغيب رب الاسرة عن اسرته، ليس طوعا بل بالرغم عنه، ايمانا منه بضرورة توفير ابسط سبل العيش الكريم لاسرته؟ ماذا تتوقعون من جيل يولد ويربى تحت كل تلك الظروف؟ ماذا تتوقعون من هذا الجيل الذي يصبح بغياب تلك الاشياء عنه هشا وتائها ومكبوتا، بالطبع سيصبح سريع التأثر بما حوله وسيصبح كالاسفنجة، سريع الامتصاص لما حوله من غير ان يراعي هل هذا الذي يمتصه نظيف ام ملوث. بالتاكيد نحن مشهورون ومميزون بطيب الصفات وكرم الاخلاق ورزانة التصرفات، وتركيبة المجتمع السوداني الفريدة من نوعها كفيلة بغرز القيم النبيلة وكفيلة بان تهذب كيان الفرد ونفسه ومن حوله، وذلك ينبع من انها مستوحاة من العقيدة الاسلامية السمحة. ولكن عندما اتى هؤلاء الولاة والمسؤلين ووضعوا عقائد تعليمية واجتماعية وسياسية واقتصادية وعسكرية و...و...و...الخ تحت اسم الدين ولكنها في الحقيقة ليست لها علاقة بالدين ولا تخدم سوى مصالحهم الشخصية، هؤلاء دفعوا بهذا المجتمع تدريجيا الى الانحطاط. (بالطبع هنالك استثناءات وهنالك اناس رفعوا راية الكفاح والصمود ووقفوا شامخين تحت كل هذه الضغوط).

-ولي في هذا مقالات أخرى.