Monday, February 21, 2005

Read This and Weep!

Thanks to Sarah for sending the link to this article about Qatar becoming a world-class destination for higher education.

I'm happy for Qatar - I swear I am! - but I want to cry over the downward spiral into darkness and ignorance that Kuwait is plunging itself into...

آآآه يا القهر

16 comments:

  1. 3afyah 3alaihom walah!

    I think it's to do with someone called Al-Sheikha Mouza - a caring member of the royal family.

    They're having a variety of educational school systems (mostly high school) being tried too. They're up for a change.

    Waiting for this reformation to take place in Kuwait.

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  2. Don't hold your breath... even our new "private" universities have been knee-capped by the forces of darkness, and forced to segregate.. not to mention the make-shift campuses which may look pleasant on the surface, but are not really fit for "world-class" universities.

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  3. It's been said, Qatar is the new Dubai.
    And yes, I'm weeping.

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  4. Zaydoun,
    You know why Qatar has the Weill Cornell Medical College, and we have zilch? I?s say the main reason is because our society has choosen to believe in the paranormal, junk and pseudo-sciences.

    Swindlers peddling "3asal el-3owayed" and charlatans like Saleh el-Nahham who continue to interpret dreams and fill the minds of the week with mumbo-jumbo crap about witchcraft, and we want to evolve in the educational sector?

    Now, who encouraged such beliefs, and why? Whoever has the courage to debunk those frauds will be accused of apostasy.

    The sad fact is, our society is dancing on its future grave; for we have entered a new age of "Jaheleyah"!

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  5. Downward Spiral is a cool album.

    NIN RULEZ!

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  6. khal man3 al ekhtela6 yefedna!!huh

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  7. praktike... AUK campus is actually not bad, but it's of a standard that I always hoped for our HIGH SCHOOLS

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  8. Qatar, not only does it start with a Q, but it also QiQ's Q8's ass!! e7im...sorry about that, thats the Q in me trying to reach out!

    But in all seriousness, we are in the dark ages for our country!

    We have the money, we have capabilities, but unfortunately, we dont have a visionary dictatorship like Dubai or Qatar! More importantly, the people who matter in the country are too preoccupied with the recent surge of money, and the rest of us sheep are way too preoccupied with religious issues!

    Education is waay low in the priorities.

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  9. Zaydoun, I think praktike is talking about the new one in Shdadiya?

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  10. Q.. praktike means the AUK in Salmiya. Shdadiya just had its ground breaking ceremony yesterday

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  11. This is the product of women sharing in politics, I do not weep, I only raise my hat for Qatar and hope that one day we move along.

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  12. Big Z
    Aba Al-7akham has resumed course ;)

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  13. rabab.. i saw this morning. way too long to finish in one sitting ;-)

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  14. Bo-Slaiman
    El-Shadadiya (as being forcefully polled back to the dark ages) is more suitable as a name to this supposedly higher education center. And I would suggest a logo of a cave man pulling a female by her hair while walking in a huge cave reading the 100 commandment made of a block of a stone. ( any artist in the house) :)

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  15. Suvai... as opposed to a non-caring member of the royal family, like the shining examples we have here?

    I just read your comment again and realized that I missed that potent sentence... which I hope was intentional ;-)

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