Ammar Ibrahim's Blog

Ahhhhh, finally after one hard day of work, I managed to migrate my blog from serendipity (s9y) to wordpress. Few years ago, I did the opposite. The reason I’m back to wordpress is because s9y wasn’t friendly at all. It was difficult to update the system, work with plugins, and many other issues. I’m glad I’m back on wordpress, it’s one hell of a platform. The usability aspects of it, are just beyond reason, it opened my mind to many great ideas. I just love the design of the admin interface and how smooth everything is. It’s so yummy!

I’ve done a lot of hacking and a bit of coding to migrate the old content. I faced many problems specially with Arabic characters I had in some entries. Unfortunalty, the old links don’t work, but this will be fixed tomorrow. If anyone is interested, I can blog about it, but it’s a long process, and I doubt it’ll help anyone

I hope I will be blogging more, there’s a lot that I want to share. Recently, I’m learning new exciting technologies, programming languages and creating new products. Besides all the tech. stuff, I’m learning how to manage people, something I have been putting a lot of effort into understanding. I feel it was one of my biggest achievements last year.

The design & functionality of the blog are far from finished, I will be fixing this baby whenever I have free time. Stay tuned!

Like all cowards, I sit and watch the news everyday. Devastated by the horrible scenes of the Israeli massacre in Gaza. Besides donations, protesting, writing Facebook status messages (in hope that my European and American friends would notice what is going on), and grief i don’t know what to do. To be honest, I feel that everything I done, is useless. What can we do? Can someone give me a proper solution on how we can do something that actually makes a difference? 

I’ve never felt as helpless, as useless.

My problem with most pro Palestinian songs is that they have lots of religion, violence and annoying thoughts. But two artists have remarkably created a very nice form of art based on the cause. Marcel Khalifeh and Ahmad Qabour are my favourites in this area. For many, many years, I have been enjoying and feeling the strong emotions in the fantastic songs the two composed. I love how they focues on the human issue above anything else. My favorite song happens to be a song by Qabour which I found on YouTube today, I really hope you enjoy it, and I highly recommend you check his other songs provided below the embedded video:

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Ommi – Ummi (My Mother) أمي – مرسيل خليفة