successful men are not the most stylish ones

In movies or TV shows they are showing successful people in a way that is very far from the real meaning of success, they will show such people as very handsom and stylish, but thats is not the truth for instance, Stephen Hawking is a very successful man but still he is not handsome at all, Bill Gates is also one of the most influential people in the history and also he doesnt look like Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt.

Success is all about how much you contribute to your or others societies, how much people got influenced positively by you, this is the real judgement of success.

magazines and TV shows nowadays are causing us a headache from these tips and tricks of how to stay in 20s while you are actually in 60s, how to be as slim as Nicole Kidman, how to, how to ....etc.

They are damaging the generations mentality and it is obvious when you have a walk in any mall, you will find copies of football players, singers, actors, and actresses also.

First things first, is it our kids falt or the media falt or whos e falt is it?

When we answer this question things will be more clear and the solution will be closer to find, it is the responsibility of the whole society to let such...

An Analysis of a movie adapted from a book

Not any book fiction or nonfiction can be a movie, because in some cases the book says things which is difficult to be converted to a movie, yes the characters are either inspired by life or they are really existed but a book should have some conditions to be a movie one of these conditions is the dramatic events or also you can say the unusual events which can give the movie a first step towards success, but in the case of "The Kite Runner", the book has all the requirements to be converted to a movie and a successful one.
The book is a really genuine one and has illustrated the Afghani culture form all the aspects possible to be included in an around 200 pages novel, through its narrator the 38 years old novelist Amir who had told us his story in a very exciting sequence of events since he was a child until he had become a half famous novelist in America.
Only the first flashback of Amir in the beginning of the movie was that important to build the while movie on it, other flashbacks where just to illustrate the time factor on the characters, going back to the first flashback when Amir and his wife in their apartment in America received a phone call from Afghanistan, that flashback took us to the whole story behind this famous novelist in America, from where he is, what kind of life he used to live back home, and so on.
I have been always told that" you must read a book, then you watch the movie, and here you will get the maximum pleasure from both", in the case of The Kite Runner I think it's different, because I have watched the movie and immediately after the end of it I walked to the nearest book store and bought the book, the movie is a truly good presentation of the book, when you turn the pages you see each and every scene from the movie exactly like sitting in the cinema and watching it again.
Some books as I mentioned above cannot become a movie like the Davinci Code which according to reviews in the Telegraph and personal blogs of some crtitiques had not add anything to the book but on the contrary many people because of the book and it's huge number of selling went to watch the movie but after that they said that the movie had been advertised in a way which it doesn’t deserve.
Watching a movie is different than reading a book in many ways, when any filmmaker wants to make a movie he/she should be stuck to 1 and a hal or 2 hours and also should grab the audience attention from the first 15 minutes otherwise the movie will fail to cover even its costs.

citizen journalism

Media before the emerge of blogs as the" Citizen journalism " in the era of internet, media giants used to be the only provider of the truth, now Blogs provide us with all the means of democracy which we might have not experienced before the internet and Blogs especially.
Bloggers nowadays became dangerous to some governments for the opinions or news they put into their entries.
The purpose of the media is to be instructive, informative, and for entertainment as well, these are or were the main roles of the media, but through the decades of the media development only few big capitals were dominating the media channels so in this case the credibility decreased to a lower level in spite of the huge image about some media giants like BBC or CNN had been already formed in peoples minds as the shortest way to the truth.
Later, and during the last few years new media emerged as a strong competitor to the ordinary forms of media, and here we find the personal and the participatory touch
Blogs representing one of the most personal and participatory media ever found, because media before the emerge of blogs as the" Citizen journalism " in the era of internet, media giants used to be the only provider of the truth, now Blogs provide us with all the means of democracy which we might have not experienced before the internet and Blogs especially, now we have the video blogging as well as the written ones, all this and more made governments like in Egypt to arrest and stop or try to stop some famous bloggers to go on with uncover the ugly face of the truth or what they think is the truth.
Nobody now is able to tell us which news is worthwhile or not, you can with a click of your mouse to search the blogs in any language and find what is going on and in case you have another view point or opinion about the particular issue, you can leave a comment on the blog entry and other people will or will not share you the opinion but this at the end give Blog another advantage beside participatory and personal, it gives blogging the interactivity which may be lost in other media or at least not found in this way.
Israa Abdul Fattah, a 28 years old human resources manager in a private company in Egypt, an online activist who has been announced as the Facebook Arab President according to an election held by around 100,000 Arab facebook members, they thought it was a joke and even Israa but when she found a group named it "6th of April, protest for all the Egyptians" huge number of people joined this group and they have really done it on the same day at the same time in the same place which made the police to arrest Israa and keep her in the jail for 15 days and then another 15 days for encouraging the public against the government.
Israa is a very important case to be studied by sociologists, and media professionals because it is really different than other cases where secret photos or documents are shown on the net or video showing this celebrity or that politician doing things people didn’t expect them to do, Israa's case showing hidden feeling and passions in the people that they just wanted a small push to start bringing out what exactly they feel about certain issues.
This was number one only, now we start with number two which is more famous than the previous but I like always to save the best for the last.
www.manalaa.net
www.malek-x.net
www.speaksfreely.net
http://misrhura.blogspirit.com
www.anaikhwan.blogspot.com
These are not my internet resources for this article, these are the names of famous and popular blogs in Egypt whom owners and writers have been arrested minimum 1 time.
These bloggers became famous in the Arab world after the stories they have covered outside the jail like the behavior of police men with the protesters and how they have violently hat them by sticks or even shot them, this is outside the jail, but what about inside the jail when they have been arrested???
Alaa, the owner of www.manalaa.net, and while he was in jail, he sent some messages to the bloggers outside to post his writings to keep his blog updated and to tell the people what is really happening in jails.
His blogs became widely spread to the level that the HRW took it seriously and sent a letter to the Egyptian government about these violations to the human rights and if continued the HRW will ask to open an international investigation about this case and others as well.
This is second case, and the third case is about Iraqi bloggers or lets say bloggers from Iraq because sometimes it not the Iraqis who record the resistance operation against the invasion forces in Iraq, but sometimes the US soldiers themselves recording and clicking photos to what is happening to them or even writing their online dairies which are really terrifying to their people and that’s why all the official bodies taking their posts seriously like Al-Jazeera Channel, Al-Arabiya news Channel, CNN, BBC, and others.
Even the US administration sent its orders to the troops in Iraq to ban the process of blogging for the soldiers and officers in the US army there.
All these stories showing us nothing but the important role of the new media which made nothing can be hidden, and this support the people and not governments or political bodies like before, now media is really the citizen media.

Arabic Political Cartoons

Cartoons have a very good impact on people especially when these cartoons are addressing the people about very sensitive issues like the Palestine case for the Arab people.
Cartoons are briefing news or important events in one drawing or sometimes more, cartoonist should have the sense of news as well as the artistic skill to deliver whatever kind of message he/she want to deliver to the people of different classes and educational backgrounds.
It’s a very important means of sending messages to the people because using cartoons to illustrate any single happening will reach more people than any other medium, and this is for the reason that cartoons take fewer time to get the message and it depends on one thing only "the perception and interpretation" abilities of the person no more and no less it doesn’t matter whether you are an literate or illiterate, can understand the cartoonist's language or not (except in some cases when there will be some comments or sentences).
These are old and modern cartoons by Palestinian cartoonists all of them are about the struggling for the Palestinians rights in their land and their freedom of speech right.
These cartoons were the reason behind the arrest of Hajjaj; the cartoonist who did the cartoons from aljazeera.net and the death of Naji Al-Ali the one of the rest of the cartoons.