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🔗 طيار ماكدونالدز يحلم «بهابى ميل» لأولاده

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كريم ــ 3 سنوات ــ فاكر إن ماكدونالدز ده بتاعى وكل شوية عاوز هابى ميل علشان اللعبة. ده حمل تقيل، إلا الأولاد مش ممكن أقولهم لأ على حاجة، وكمان صعب الواحد ياكل حاجة من غيرهم... ولذلك وفى الأعياد الرسمية، بعد انتهاء «شفت العمل»، يأخذ محمد أولاده إلى أحد مطاعم الشركة، «على الأقل يحسوا إنى بأعملهم حاجة، أصلهم مش فاهمين إن المحل ده مش بتاعى».

🔗 al-Shorouk’s story on secret Sudan raids | The Arabist

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The reason we’ve never heard about any of this, apparently, is that the US is not advertising the operations, the al-Bashir regime in Khartoum has declared a media blackout, and Egypt is respecting the blackout but keeping a close eye since this involves major arms traffic (it’s an old route, once used by the French poet Rimbaud) going through its territory. Today al-Shorouk said that an Egyptian intelligence agent visited the area to verify the issue.

🔗 Seumas Milne: Will Israel be brought to book over evidence it committed war crimes in Gaza? | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

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Richard Falk, the UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian Human Rights, argued recently, any attempt to view the two sides as "equally responsible" is an absurdity: one is a lightly-armed militia, effectively operating underground in occupied territory – the other the most powerful army in the region, able to pinpoint and pulverise targets with some of the most sophisticated weaponry in the world.

🔗 Psychosocial determinants of PTSD (cross cultural study)

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A proposal for an MD study that aims to: "identify the profile & clinical characteristics of PTSD among Iraqi population, comparing it with that of an Egyptian sample; to demonstrate a possible impact of culture & cultural variation. Study the quality of life & coping behaviour in relation to cultural & sociodemographic data, & the effect of culture on the phenomenology and clinical characteristics of posttraumatic stress disorder."

🔗 May 1968 in France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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May '68 was a political failure for the protesters, but it had an enormous social impact. In France, it is considered to be the watershed moment when a conservative moral ideal (religion, patriotism, respect for authority) shifted towards a more liberal moral ideal (equality, sexual liberation, human rights) that today better describes French society, in theory if not in practice. Although this change did not take place solely in this one month, the term mai 68 is used to refer to this general shift in principles, especially when referring to its most idealistic aspects.

🔗 PLoS Medicine - Contrasting Effects of Maternal and Paternal Age on Offspring Intelligence

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Why women should marry younger men: older women make smarter babies, older men make dull kids. Older men might make kids with autism, schizophrenia, epilepsy, bipolar, cleft palate, cancers, heart defects. Older women might make kids with Down syndrome only. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fmedicine.plosjournals.org%2Fperlserv%2F%3Frequest%3Dget-document%26doi%3D10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000042