I watched Pretty Little Liars!

Hi everyone! I watched Pretty Little Liars with my mommy. It was so exciting! And it was scary! Me and my mommy screamed and ran out of the room when Ian tried to push Spencer. I can't wait for next season! :D Here are some pictures. I hope you like them because I sure did. I liked them so much that I stole them from facebook and from the ABC website.

For realz!

Well, there I was, minding my own business when I came across this website. I really found it cute and thought I should share. It's a website of some guy that really wants a wife. He says he will  pay $10,000 to the person who introduces him to his future wife. He likes kids and monkeys, and he's obviously rich to be willing to part with that kind of money. Though I bet you I can spend 10 grand in 3 hours. But that's just me.

Sand Storm! OMG!!

I'm not easily impressed but this blew my mind! I hope the people of kuwait and saudi are ok. Check it out!

I've been in a few sand storms and so has my mommy. The sky would turn red and brown and there would be wild wind! And once in Jeddah it knocked down trees and even our satellite dish! It was so scary! But I must admit, the video shows the scariest sand storm EVER!!

Anthropologie!

Omg! I went to Anthropologie yesterday and I found the cutest coat in the world! I told my mommy that 100% we had to buy it so she did. (I got it for myself and my mommy thinks it's for her. ) And then the lady at the check out told me that when I grow up I should come and work for them! Here is the trench we got from there:

Pretty Little Liars kind of thingy

Omg Look what I found. 

Isn't that the same as the one in Pretty Little Liars? I know it is!! It's just as cute! You can get it from 

The price is not bad and they do have free shipping. I'm waiting for mine! Hope I get it soon. Everyone will be mad jealous of me...hehe. 

Gingerbread Cookie Recipe!

Hi Ayesha! Happy Birthday! This recipe is for you. I hope you make it soon. Let me know how it comes out:)  

The recipe for the cookies is: 

You could put salt in it if you like, or just use salted butter instead. Or even without any salt at all. I like it with and without salt!

Bake it in a 400 degree oven for about 7 to 10 minutes.

Hope you like it!!:)

And Thank you for following my blog! :D

Kids got style!

A Day made of Glass

This blew my mind! I'm super excited for this kind of future! ~Enjoy!

Come NOW Summer!

Outfit of a Random Day

I used to get a ton of compliments because of my outfit!:)

Loop 6

Amina Al Jassim

Abu Dhabi Fashion Week 2008

LOVE IT!

So these are the creations of Amina Al Jassim. They look very Afghani-ish to me. 

And this is her:

Life of a mini Fashionista..

So hard yet so rewarding! 

As a toddler I always tried to match my scarf to my outfits!

And this is me kicking it at my mommy's work with my nanny. I was so into dresses.

Dar Al Hanan

Dar Al Hanan is an awesome school in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. This is a picture of the students from long time ago, like 30 years ago. Sometimes my mommy tells me stories of what she thinks happened to each one of these girls. It makes me so excited to hear! I really do wonder where they are and what they are doing!

This is the front door of the old school. 

And this is the door of the new school:

And check this out, it's the inside of the old school towards the cafeteria. It's so pretty!

This is my brother and me in Dar Al Hanan. Aren't my shoes cute? They were like little mice! haha! I chose them myself. 

I miss it a lot. I used to even go on Thrusdays there with my mommy and her friends. I used to play in the playground and run around the empty building and eat Mana3eesh Jibneh and Zaatar which we got from Sheikh Mangoosh off of Sari Street! Yummy! Good times!!

This is the playground in the school.

     

Rehab El-Buri

Not too many awesome Muslim women are known. This is Rehab El-Buri who passed away on Sunday, March 6th, 2011. She was only 25. She used to work for ABC News. 

Remembering Rehab El-Buri

A Trailblazing Member of the ABC News Investigative Team Passes Away

A former ABC News staffer who helped shape the network's coverage of the Arab world, Rehab El-Buri, died Sunday at the age of 26. A trusted colleague in the ABC News Investigative Unit and cherished friend, Rehab left her position last year to devote her energies to fighting a courageous battle against cancer.

"Rehab was wise beyond her years and brought important insights to all of ABC News," said Brian Ross, chief investigative correspondent.

"She was a fighter," recalled Jon Banner, executive producer of ABC World News with Diane Sawyer.

Beginning as a desk assistant and working her way to the Investigative Unit, Rehab was committed to reporting on the plight of those who could not speak out on their own. Her work was defined by giving a voice to the voiceless, steadfastly working behind the scenes to tell their stories.

In 2008, Rehab was instrumental in developing a 20/20 report that investigated how some high-ranking international diplomats in the U.S. would abuse and exploit the domestic workers brought with them from their home countries. The most challenging aspect of this report was finding workers from poor and underprivileged backgrounds who were willing to speak out against their powerful employers.

"Rehab combined a strong drive to uncover the facts with a calm and reassuring presence," said producer Joseph Rhee. "This proved invaluable in finding a way to crack this difficult story."

Rehab was able to contact a young Indonesian woman named Siti Aisah who worked for the then-ambassador to the United Nations from Qatar. Rehab gained Aisah's trust, meeting her on weekends and gaining permission to shoot footage of Aisah on her own with a small video camera. When Aisah finally spoke on-camera to ABC News, she told a powerful and heart-wrenching account of being treated harshly by the extremely wealthy and privileged family of the ambassador.

"I feel like what is that called, less than human. I feel like I'm like a dog or something. I don't know I feel so small in front of them, almost invisible," Aisah told ABC News. Rehab's efforts helped bring this serious international issue to light, and helped lead to strong action against the abuses by the U.S. State Department.

Rehab was determined to become a journalist after her family was interviewed so often as devout Muslims living in Missouri. She decided she wanted to be the one to ask the questions, and graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in 2007 as a radio-television journalism major.

Outside of her career, Rehab was an active community leader who continually put others before herself. Just a few months ago, despite her own illness, she raised over $20,000 through a bake sale for a friend who needed an operation. And when she learned from a chaplain at Memorial Sloan-Kettering hospital, where she was treated, that a program for pediatric patients was short on funding, she snapped into action.

"Rehab, completely exhausted, with tubes coming out of her chest and IVs running into every possible vein, looked up at him and promised she would get him the money," her husband, Zaied Abbassi, said. "Less than three weeks later, she handed him a check for $1500." The money ensured the program would be funded for not only one year, but two.

"She said she would do something, and she did it," Abbassi said.

Along with her husband, Rehab was survived by her parents, both of whom were champions of human rights and free speech and fled repressive regimes to raise their family of daughters in the U.S., and her sisters.

She will be forever missed by the ABC News team, whose work was made better because of Rehab's passion and integrity as a colleague and friend.

"Rehab was a special young woman who not only profoundly influenced our journalism but warmly touched our lives," said Rhonda Schwartz, chief of investigative projects. "We'll carry her memory with us."

I copied and pasted the article from here!

She had an awesome blog which you can find here. As I looked around to read more about her I found this: 

Rehab’s words:

I know I ended my last post pretty abruptly. At the time I was writing it, going through the play by play was difficult.

It took me about three days to accept my death. On the first day, as you read, my mind was in chaos. On the second day, I was numb. And on the third day, my husband and mother began talking sense to me, and I finally came to some important realizations:

1. We are all going to die. The people who took the news of my disease calmly and those who panicked- they are going to die one day too. Death is one of the few realities we can be certain of in this life, and yet we somehow slip into thinking that we are exempt.

2. We live this life for the next. I was living my life as a Muslim…praying and fasting, but I had somehow allowed my real goal in life to be swallowed by buying salad plates for my next dinner party, and trying to get free shipping on my next jcrew order, and finding pillows that popped against my cream sofa. In between being a consumer and entertaining myself to death, I let what really matters in my life slip away from me. If I was truly living my life for the Hereafter, I should not be so fearful of the future I had created for myself. The Quran says, “And this life of the world is nothing but a sport and a play; and as for the next abode, that most surely is the life- did they but know!” [29.64]

3. I am in the same boat as everyone else. None of us are given anyguarantees in life. Our health, our wealth, and our families are trusts give to us by Allah- and they are His to take when He, in his infinite wisdom, deems fit. We all claim to believe this, but in practice we often falter. I don’t know why I thought I could push the thought of death out of my mind for at least a good 30 or 40 years. Allah (SWT) could claim any of us at any time. I am in the same boat as everyone else- I have no idea when my time is, but I should try to live everyday as if it is my last.

4. Each day is a gift. Receiving this wake up call is such a blessing in that each day Allah grants me is an opportunity to do some more good and try to make up for some of the mistakes I made in the past. For some reason, the mornings are usually a little rough for me. I think it’s just waking up from my dreams and realizing that I still have to live with this disease. But every morning I try to tell myself, “Alhamdulilah, I feel good today, what good can I do today?”

These realizations, and the support of my mother, husband, his mother, my sisters, his sisters, my father, his father, my friends, and my community have helped me not merely cope with what I’m going through, but actually seek the reward of going through this trial, and try to sincerely accept what Allah wills for me.

An Architect's Critic....

I work as an architect's critic. I have to look at designs and give my opinion about it. Here is the latest submission. 

I must say I like it a lot. Reminds me of the Old Lady Who Lives in a Shoe, except with a modern twist to it. I'm going to give my personal architect the go-ahead to have someone build it. Usually my critique's run longer than what I have just written, but in this instance, I'm going to let the art speak for itself.

Intisar Rabb

This post needs to have it's own page called: People I Admire. She is awesome. 

"Intisar Rabb is a member of the law faculty at Boston College Law School where she teaches advanced constitutional law, criminal law, and comparative and Islamic law. She is also a research affiliate at the Harvard Law School Islamic Legal Studies Program and a 2010 Carnegie Scholar. She is particularly interested in questions at the intersection of criminal justice, legislative policy, and judicial process in American law and in the law of the Middle East and the wider Muslim world."
You can read all about her and about Sharia Law over HERE!

More Art!

I used to play here when I was a kid. Like even a smaller kid than right now.

These two guys are playing catch. 

Rabia Z

This is my favorite fashion designer. 





Check out a fashion show of hers!




I love this video! I was watching it with my mommy and we both made up our mind to buy a scarf from her. 



I really really REALLY hope I meet her someday!!!

Hesham Abbas

I have got to share this! It's so fun! Like I said, India is such a fun place! I'm going to go there one day! And make my own music video. (giggle giggle)

This is good as well. It's by Yuri Mrakadi.

It's my BIRTHDAY!!

This is my birthday cake! It's got TONS of berries on it! It's my new favorite cake. 

I had a slice with hot green tea. It went along perfectly.

Haifa Wehbi's ONLY nice song

Okay, I know that's a very subjective claim... but check this out.

Pacific Science Center

How awesome is Pacific Science Center in Seattle? I went on Saturday and I had a ton of fun!
I got to see baby dinosaurs and dinosaur eggs. And I learned that dinosaurs are extinct because they didn't look both ways when crossing the street and they used to open the door to strangers. Pity. 

Oh and I got to touch slimy sea creatures!

And omg I found out how a toilet works!

There was an insane number of things that I could do there. Insane I tell you!

And I got to ride a gigantic worm.

All in all a very fun day! I got to droll over a plate of grasshopper kebabs! Yummo!!!

A video about Islam

You can check out her blog here. It's very interesting. And of course you can find many more cool speakers here! I hope I get the chance to hear her live one day, or hear anyone 'live'. I always here my mommy 'live'. (giggle giggle)

Shoe Island!

So this was done by that very same artist that I've been featuring on my blog. He did that basketball one. I have several of his pieces of his work hanging around my place. One day they will be worth millions.