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February 2006
Issue # 96

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THIS ISSUE                                     February 20065




             A Word from us    Tune Up               64 Plain Talk
                                                     The Land is mine
             Mail              Star Corner           Sweet Fantasy
                               Fun with Dick and
             Bits and Pieces   Jane                  From the Heart
             We comment                              Thoughts
             G- Articles       Up Coming             Prose
             Flashback         Attractions           Open Letter
             Think Green                             Introspection
             What If           In Focus
             Aregica           Obsessions… Dig Out   Confessions
                               Yours!!
             Chill Out                               Teenz Stars

             Political Mania
             Teenz Fitness
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Friendship
Hi Teen Stuff,
This is my first time to write to
you teens. First of all, I like your
magazine very much. You
choose the most important
issues and have very good
writers who have a sense of
humor. Can I be a friend of this
great magazine? My name is
Smsma khalofsky and I live in
the Mokattam area. I have a
request; can you write about
friendship nowadays?                   Missing Sections!
                            Smsma
                                       Hi Teens,
Dear Smsma,                            You’re the best English magazine I've ever read. I started
Nice to hear from you and thank        reading TS since last September and you’re really my favorite
you so much for your                   magazine. But I’m so sad because last January you left out my
overwhelming feedback. We’re           favorite two things that I love the best in the magazine. They’re
so glad that you like the              We Comment and Famous Star’s Birthdays ........ PLZ don’t
magazine and we’ll keep on             miss that again!
doing our best to live up to your      The biggest fan you'll never lose,
expectation, guys. We’ll suggest                                                               Dr_FrEeZ
your topic to our staff and if any
are interested, they’ll write          Dear Dr_FrEeZ,
about it. Hopefully, if there’s        It was really nice reading your mail. Thank you for your kind
any teen reading this mail now         words and we’re glad that our magazine has appealed to you.
and interested in writing on such      Sorry about the missing sections but sometimes we’re forced
a topic, we’d like to hear from        to cancel certain things because we run out of space.
them also. Hope to keep on             Unfortunately, we don’t have famous birthdays again this month
hearing from you.                      but we hope you’ll enjoy reading We Comment. Thanks again
                                       and keep your mail coming.




  6 . December 2005 . TeenStuff
Funny how all over the world tourists are treated as
                                           second degree citizens except here in Egypt. Remember
                                           a regular citizen always comes second.          Alfajr




                                   It’s a real disaster that one of Islam’s Pillars is now being
                                   ruled by the concept of personal interests and gaining more
                                   money out of it.                                     Alfajr




                                                      Still we wonder why youth is pessimistic
                                                      and see no future in this country




                     Couldn’t have put it in a better way. I just don’t understand
                     how can any actor consider acting in such a farce.




                                     And we blame teachers for private lessons! There is a
                                     message here teens; teaching pays nothing, so stick to
                                     playing football.                        Al Ahram




             We pay thousands and thousands on festivals and carnivals, in fear of being
             accused of ignorance and not appreciating culture and art I’ll leave this question
             for you to answer; which is better a country without international festivals or
             without decent education?
                                                                             Al Masry Al Youm

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Love Me, Love My Dog!
Pets are one of the best joy providers on earth. I
always dreamt of having a dog my whole life but I
never had one until my last birthday in September.
It was a gift from my husband who, by the way, was
constantly rejecting the idea of having a dog in our
house. However, knowing that for me, this would be
the best birthday present EVER, he surprised me with
the cutest puppy I could possibly ever imagine. As
you would expect, the very first thing that occupied
our minds was what will we call him? We searched
                                                            Escaping Reality
the Net over and over again for dogs' names because
I really wanted a very unique word to be the direct         Drowning in a whirl of thoughts
contact between me and my dream. While searching,           Distant agonizing screams haunt
I made a joke about calling him Buzz Lightyear like
the character in Disney’s Toy Story. Surprisingly, the      me
joke left a terrific, remarkable echo in our ears and       Violent winds rushing past my ears
we actually decided to call him Buzz.                       Swarmed with blinding darkness
Having spent less than two months with Buzz, you’d          Gracefully I fall on a bed of roses
hardly believe how much he’s become a real effective
part of my life. And I think I've become a part of his
                                                            Viewing my only refuge
life too. He makes me the happiest person when I            A world I built to escape
have to stay away for a while and come back home            Dwelling in this sparkling isolation
to find him waiting by the door hopping and leaping,
smiling and showing his small lower teeth, just             Clinging to this fantasy with all my
because he saw me. But also I won't skip the part           strength
right after I say hi and give him a shower of kisses
on my                          way in; gradually            Disregarding the remote calling of
                                   discovering the          my name
                                      mess he makes,
                                        especially when
                                                            Let me stay…Let me stay…
                                         it comes to
                                           shoes. And
                                            right at this
                                             moment,
                                              it feels
                                               like




BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzz. But then again, one of
the funniest things he does is the way he runs back
and forth, right and left all in a second trying to
confuse me so that I can't catch him. In fact, it does      Don’t you ever get that urging feeling of wanting
become hard, sometimes impossible, when he uses             to get away from this world? I’m not talking about
this smart technique which, mostly, makes me forget         taking the first flight out of your country, I mean
about punishing him and stand laughing at his hilarious     heading straight to a place only you know how to
action as if he's trying to win a battle or something.      access. A place that’s deep within the insides of
                                                            your brain. Once you find it, when you feel that
Moreover, when he sleeps and I make any noise               the world has suddenly gone dark, you lock yourself
around him causing the slightest disturbance, he            there for hours and hours, just imagining; whether
wakes up and looks at me with his sleepy innocent           it’s jumping into your favorite book or movie to
eyes; watching me carefully, fighting the urge to           live in that world, or just creating a world of your
close his eyes and trying to figure out if I’m staying      own. A world that’s so perfect and magnificent
in the same place or going somewhere else.                  just for you. Only then, have you escaped reality.
Sometimes, I have to pretend I’m staying so that he         Escaping reality happens when it’s hard to accept
goes to sleep again, feeling safe that I won’t be           or tolerate it. It ignores all reasonable thinking as
leaving him alone.                                          it ignores what’s real and actual. That’s why it’s
                                                            called ‘imaginary’ because you’re the one who
In short, pets are charming! They’re like little adorable   fantasizes yourself out of this world and into the
babies that we should care for, love and appreciate.        inner depths of your imagination. Personally, I do
I JUST LOVE MY BUZZ!                                        it quite often. When I feel down or extremely
                                                            depressed, my mind shifts inevitably to that special
                                Sherihan Hassabo, 21        place in my head, the place I call ‘My World.’
                                                            Rejecting Reality within Literature:
                                                            We’re not the only ones who escape reality now.
                                                            It all started centuries ago when English poets

www.teenstuffonline.com                                                          TeenStuff . February 2006
and writers decided to hold a           Some of you might not agree with           as it’s only in your head.
movement to defy all meaning and        me but why do you have to first            It’s okay to once in a while stray
rationality. The beginning of the       see something that’s not as good           deep in our thoughts. But how deep
19th century is known as the age        as yours in order to realize the           is too deep? And is what we’re
                                                               value of            doing wrong, mentally? That’s a
                                                               what you            tough one to answer because it
                                                               have? Try to        depends really on how much time
                                                               appreciate          you spend stuck in daydreaming.
                                                               your life           Psychologically, it can be dangerous
                                                               before it’s         if we live in the ‘other world’ more
                                                               too late.           than the real one. Sometimes the
                                                               And most            brain can confuse the real with the
                                                               importantly,        false and that person - who suffers
                                                               value               from a personal/social disorder due
                                                               yourself.           to the extreme hardships of life -
                                                               Just as any         may be incapable of identifying
                                                               superstar is        which is which, as they lose touch
                                                               special in          with reality.
                                                               your eyes,          Life can push us to the edge
                                                               you’re also         sometimes and the more darkness

                                                                         Just as any superstar
                                                                        is special in your eyes,
                                                                    you’re also special and unique
                                                                  special and      we see in real life, the more light
of ‘Romanticism.’ They didn’t call      unique; all you have to do is see it       we create for ourselves in our own
for romance and love as much as         and believe in it.                         fantasy world. That’s why it seems
they called for a radical change. It    I think by now you’d agree with            so appealing. Thankfully, I’m not
was a revolutionary age which set       me that we all daydream and I’m            suffering from that disorder and I
out to transform not only theory        not telling you to stop dreaming.          very well know what’s real. Yet it
and practice of poetry and all art,     If we stop dreaming, it may be the         does seem more appealing. The
but the very way we perceive the        end of life and our future as we           problem is once I’m there it can
world. They rejected the rules that     know it. In spite of their similarities,   be a gruesome experience to try
were set by previous ages and they      there’s still a difference between         to get out. But in the end, reality
revolted against realism as they        dreams and daydreams or                    has to knock on my door and drag
believed more in imagination and        fantasies. Dreams are when you             me back there again whether I like
the importance of senses and            set realistic goals for yourself; goals    it or not. And believe me I don’t,
emotions over reason and intellect.     that are more likely to be attained        because when it hits you so hard
Romantic fiction in general is          in real life. While day dreaming is        with one of its whims, it feels as if
primarily the kind that offers a        the act of engaging in fantasy while       you just fell from a skyscraper and
reader a chance to discard realism.     awake; it can imply sometimes a            unfortunately the landing isn’t that
It deals with things that are           yearning to fulfill something unreal,      smooth.
mysterious, strange or exciting         hoping it’ll materialize. Thus, some       Sooner or later, we’ll realize that
other than the things that happen       say it can be useless while it can         the world we built is detaining our
in real life. In short, fantasy         be regarded the opposite as great          actual world. And that’s the biggest
writings show life not just as it is,   things may come from it. For               problem; we enjoy it so much that
but as we like to imagine it would      instance, it can be useful for jobs        we forget about our own life and
be.                                     that require creativity and                how to make that one – the real
Later on, other authors decided to      inventing, like engineering or             one – better. There should be a
follow this technique of rejecting      designing. Then again, all jobs need       limit to our fantasizing all day.
reality, or at least displaying what    a little creativity to be successful       Again, I’m not saying to be more
happens if we do so and just live       because what this world really             realistic, nor am I saying to be
a life of pleasure without facing       needs is a little imagination to spice     more of a dreamer. Why are there
real life, like in Aldous Huxley’s, A   things up. Personally, I’m a person        always extremes? Can’t there be
Brave New World.                        who likes to let my imagination run        something in the middle? Life is
                                        wild and it’s very useful in terms         just too short to be living a fantasy
Be Somebody… Not Somebody               of writing. Because then I have the        one, or living somebody else’s. We
Else:                                   pleasure of acquiring fruitful ideas.      should live our own life, and aim
How many times have some of us          I’d never give up on my dreams or          at making it better with our dreams
honestly wanted to be somebody          imagination because that would             and imagination. “We do not dwell
else? Whether it’s somebody             totally affect my existence. A really      on dreams and forget to live.”
famous who is your idol or just the     good friend of mine once said,
perfect guy/girl next door? I bet a     everything you imagine is real and         If you have any comments relating
lot would say that to this day, they    I totally believe that. But to what        to this issue, I would love to hear
would like to be somebody else.         extent is it true? Like I said this is     them at:
But why is that? I know that if         very useful in different aspects of        info@teenstuffonline.com
everyone takes a good look at their     life. However, it doesn’t concern
lives, family, friends and              the concept of the creation of your
environment they’d realize that it’ll   own world I was talking about.                               Esraa Hegazy, 18
never get any better than this.         Because then it won’t become real


  February 2006 . TeenStuff                                                                    www.teenstuffonline.com
Flashback
     DO YOU REMEMBER FEBRUARY 1986?
      NO, YOU PROBABLY DO NOT. YOU WERE ALL CRAWLIN’, BOTTLE FEEDIN’, THUMB SUCKIN’ TODDLERS BACK THEN…

                                                       The Central Security Forces are
                                                       a special group in the way that,
                                                       although they supposedly serve
                                                       both government and people,
                                                       they are despised, often hated
                                                       by both parties. They are a
                                                       group that are, literally,
                                                       quarantined in vast camps far
                                                       away from vibrant city centers
                                                       and sociable venues, yet crucial
                                                       for managing and forestalling
                                                       the kind of sociable traffic
                                                       unsettling to the powers that
                                                       be. You have all probably seen
                                                       them before; hundreds of
                                                       wretched, sun-baked men
                                                       perfectly lined up in fearsome
                                                       black helmets and uniforms,
                                                       carrying stinging batons and
                                                       impenetrable shields, waiting
                                                       for any manner of disorder for
                                                       them to put down.

                                                        Back in February 1986, when
                                                        rumor hit the Central Security
                                                        Forces that their term of service
                                                        would extend from three to four
                                                        years, they mutinied, breaking
                                                        loose and tearing everything


                                                                                               DO YOU
                                                        that stood in their way. They set
                                                        hotels and nightclubs on fire
                                                        that were situated on the
                                                        Pyramids road and were usually


                                                                                              REMEMBER
                                  populated by tourists. They looted stores, set cars
And neither do I really. I have   on fire, vandalized civilian properties and spread
only the flimsiest memory of      their rage through out Cairo and beyond, before the
the year1986. But here is how     army was called upon to quell their wrath. The streets
I think I was probably spending   were turned, over night, into battlefields and a round-
my days back then… busy
lining up my army of LEGO
and PlayMobil men or watching
Nagwa Ibrahim (or whoever
                                  the-clock curfew prohibited civilians from departing
                                  their homes. Eventually, the riots came to an end,
                                  and if it served anything, it brought the public’s
                                  attention to the horrifying, dreadful, severely poor
                                                                                              FEBRUARY
                                                                                                1986?
                                  living conditions and inhumane treatment that the
was hosting that show) talking    CSF was undergoing at the time.
to a Cabbage Patch doll with
an extremely irritating voice.
Or maybe watching one of
those genuinely-scary-yet-                                                                  While millions of Americans were
                                                                                            mourning the death of the seven
supposedly-aimed-for-kids                                                                   astronauts killed in the explosion
pantomime shows on a                                                                        of the aptly named, Challenger
Saturday morning. I did not                                                                 space shuttle, millions of Soviets
even have to worry about                                                                    were celebrating the launch of the
school. In a nutshell, things                                                               Mir space station, as it soared up
were pretty steady for a three-                                                             through the skies and up the
year-old like me back in 1986.                                                              heavens, beginning its fifteen year
Unfortunately, the same cannot                                                              journey of traveling through space;
be said about everyone or                                                                   one that would decidedly end in…
                                                                                            well, humiliation. At a time when
everything else, as things were                                                             the Cold War was being fought in
shaping into something pretty                                                               space, this was proof of the Soviet
ugly back then on one                                                                       Union’s triumph over the United
particular cold February. Make                                                              States. Ironically, the Soviet Union
no mistake; it was no                                                                       would collapse only five years later.
Valentine’s.



 12 . February 2006 . TeenStuff                                                                www.teenstuffonline.com
February1986 Film
          Releases:
                                                                    1986 Trends:
          Rocky 4
          A Chorus Line                                        You might have the faintest memory of your yet-to-get-married
          Kiss Of The Spiderwoman                              older brother’s or young uncle’s usually inaccessible bedroom
          Back To The Future                                   being like this: Back in 1986, the ultimate in decoration for
          Year Of The Dragon                                   any bachelor pad was a complete set of matching bed covers,
                                                               curtains and wallpaper and if they were really rich (or spoilt
                                                               by their parents) they could have had the carpet to match
   February1986 Music                                          too. Linda Beard came up with the idea of bedroom decoration
   Charts:                                                     for men only and it took off beyond her wildest dreams - even
                                                               the wallpaper which could make your eyes go funny if you
                                                               stared at it long enough. The diagonal stripes were usually
                     The Sun Always Shines On                  masculine colors like, gray, black, a different shade of gray
                     TV by A-Ha                                and just a hint of red for danger.
                     Only Love by Nana
                     Mouskouri                                 The Casio SK1 sampler keyboard was the kind of ‘thoughtful
                     Walk Of Life by Dire Straits              and educational’ toy your folks would have been spending
                     Borderline by Madonna                     their money on to buy you, back in 1986. The Casio SKI
                     Broken Wings by Mr Mister                 sampler keyboard was obviously designed as a toy rather
                                                               than a serious musical instrument - and it showed. It was
                                                               light, it was small and it was low on options; the memory
February1986 Headlines:
                                                               cleared when turned off which meant that you wouldn’t be
                                                               able to keep your glorious musical creations. But it sampled
                                                               well enough for you and your friends to have a jolly good
                                                               time. Rumor has it that it is apparently still used by the likes
Riots by Central Security Forces break out, following          of Fatboy Slim and Blur; like it’s not so obvious.
rumors that their term of service would be extended from
three years to four. Army troops are deployed to restore
order. According to official figures, 107 people are killed
in the mutiny.
Interior Minister,
Ahmed Rushdi is
dismissed and
replaced by Zaki
Badr.

Funerals are held
for the seven
astronauts killed
in January on the
Space Shuttle,
Challenger, which
explodes shortly
after take-off due
to a programming
error.

The Soviet Union launches the Mir space station.

Swedish Prime Minister, Olaf Palme is assassinated while
strolling down a street in Stockholm, on his way home
from the cinema.

Comet Haley reaches its perihelion, the closest point to
the Earth, during its second visit to the solar system in
the 20th century.

President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines, goes into
exile in the USA after twenty years of rule. Corazon Aquino
becomes the first Filipino woman President, first as in in-
term President.

Twenty-eight years of one-family rule ends in Haiti, when
President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.
                                                               And just when you thought that people couldn’t come up with
After a wait of thirty-seven years, the United States Senate   anything more foolish, big glasses, usually restricted to nerds and
approves a treaty outlawing genocide.                          librarians, went big for no apparent reason. Oh, and so did boxer
                                                               shorts!
And on February 21st, Welsh soprano voice, turned pop
starlet, Charlotte Church is born.                                                                             Ahmed Rafaat



   www.teenstuffonline.com                                                                 TeenStuff . February 2006 . 13
Where Have
                   THEY Gone?!
A typical question that’s asked in each and every interview
that everybody goes through is, “Who is your idol…who is
your model that you follow in his footsteps?” And a typical
answer is usually, “My role model is actually… can you give
me some time please--err?” Finally after a pause, the
interviewee says, ‘Dad’ while others go for their moms,
brothers or even an older cousin or something like that.




A father or a mother’s role can never be described
nor can it be expressed in words. They introduce          science there’s Einstein, Magdy Yaakoub, Farouk El
us to life, love us more than we can imagine and          Baz, and Ahmed Zowail-----can’t really stop! But
strive to raise us correctly and in the most proper       unfortunately I have to. See how uncountable they
way ever. They’re worth being imitated and followed.      are! On the other hand, we don’t find except a few
The truth is that we truly love them deeply and           of those role models of ours! Where have they
because of that we feel like, “Oh my parents are          gone?? If dead, then why don’t we find others and
really great! They did all that for me and are still      others in the same amount as they did ages ago?!
doing more, asking for nothing in return except
seeing their young offspring growing up and               Well, our plan this month is to talk to our role
achieving all the best!”                                  models. Each one of us wrote an open letter to
                                                          his/her role model in life. You’ll find some of us who
However, the important thing that we actually want        address specific persons and others address their
to highlight is the absence of role models nowadays.      imaginary role models and you’ll also find ones who
Life was always enriched until the last recent decades    didn’t actually choose only one idol. See for yourself
with loads and loads of idols and role models. If         and don’t forget to tell us who is your own role
you happen to ask about them, I can never amass           model!
all of them because there’s really a large number
of them of special personalities. Let me mention a                                         Doaa Samy, 19
few:                                                                             Head of Think Green Club

Starting with religion, after the Prophet Mohammad        When I started to think about who I should address
and his blessed companions, Abu Bakr Al-Seddik            my letter to, I found that there are several characters
and Omar Ibn-Al-Khattab, who are extremely special,       who affected me deeply and helped in the formation
we can also find modern scientists in religion like,      of my beliefs. So I'd be lying if I tell you that I
Al Sheikh Al Sha’rawi. In politics, several role models   consider only one of them as my role model. But
include, Saad Zaghloul, Tal’aat Harb, Gamal Abd-          I managed to narrow down my choice to three men
El-Nasser, Nelson Mandela, and Che Guevara. In            who I believe, being who they are and what they
Renaissance, philosophy and leadership we of course       stand for, had a profound influence on the person
have Ghandi. In economics, there’s Tal’aat Harb.          I am today.
Then concerning arts and literature, we have Abbas
Al-Akkad, Taha Hussein and Naguib Mahfouz. In


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Dear Ghandi,                                             owe my first poem to you and also my infatuation
Your tolerance and pacifism impressed me. Your           with literature.
deep love for your country gave another meaning
to patriotism. The way you fought for your people        As for the rest of the influential writers, you all hold
and bared so much suffering in order to reach what       a special place in my heart because you’ve guided
you want without losing hope, is worthy of most          me to my path. You keep reminding me each day
respect.                                                 not to forget how much I love writing and its wonders.
                                                         And the passion I feel while pouring my heart and
Dear Guevara,                                            soul on paper. Because of you, I realize the power
I deeply admire your rebel spirit and pure devotion      of words and their effects.
to your beliefs.
                                                         I hope that one day I’ll lead a road of my own as
Dear Shakespeare,                                        you did. I wish to inspire and to leave my mark on
I’ve always been inspired by your creativity and the     each one who reads what I’ve got to say.
way you understood human nature.
                                                                                              Esraa Hegazy, 18




      I hope that one day I’ll lead a road of
     my own as you did. I wish to inspire and
     to leave my mark on each one who reads
               what I’ve got to say
I can go on and on and still I wouldn't be able to       Dear Role Model,
convey how much I look up to these men. But
enough about me now, it's your turn to find out          I wish you were there for real. I've been searching
who your role model is and why?                          for you for years and years. And for years to come
                                                         I'll still be searching. Through my short, yet long,
                                   Dina Whaba, 19        journey of searching; short in time yet long in
Dear Writers,                                            feeling, I've been lucky to integrate you through
                                                         millions of people and I still will.
I thank every single writer I have read that has         If there’s another virtue or other ethics that I don’t
influenced me greatly with their astounding words.       know in this life, I'll be adding this to you, until I
For each writer who made me laugh or cry; for each       perfect you and look up to you. So I guess I should
one who amazes me always with their off the wall         say: To every true respectful person, to every
writing technique, I thank you for your creativity       devoted teacher, to every caring mom, to every
and inspiration that lights up my life. It’s necessary   conscientious writer, to every scholar, to every artist
for me to thank first and foremost William               who highly appreciates his talent, to every kind
Shakespeare. I thank you for being a literary genius     person, to every hard worker…thanks for being the
who has left profound and inspiring work of dramatic     inspiration for the past years and for years to come.
plays depicting human experiences and your
monumental sonnets that are brilliantly written. I                                           Radwa Nour, 20




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I consider myself a hardworking energetic person
Dear anonymous,                                               who also wants to excel and prove myself. Most of
                                                              all, I have that feeling of change…I want to make a
I decided not to give you a name to keep your                 change. I wish to help people, who aren’t as fortunate
uniqueness among humans. You were always a                    as I am, by one way or another. Maybe that will
mystery for me, as I never knew who would ever fit            happen by spreading awareness through my writings
into such a place in my life besides you!                     and my programs that I insist on having, hopefully,
                                                              in the future. It may also happen by going to people
I met thousands of people during my life, learned             to their places myself, talking to them about their
different lessons from each and everyone I met, but           problems or even holding workshops that can enable
nothing compares to what you’re
expected to teach me. You’re my role
model whom I should clone in most of
                                                            Blessed with the power of words,
my actions, follow your footsteps and                         the ability to convince, and to
take you as an image in front of my                                   socialize easily




eyes for the person I wish to be one day.                     them take a step forward towards a higher status.
Such a task is an honor for me, as you are the only
perfect person that I ever knew. You have it all;             I believe that achieving my own goals and targets
you’re talented, well-educated and a great leader,            are always connected to others’ goals and aims. I’m
which I admire you for You’ve been blessed with the
                       .                                      not living alone on earth. I’m neither the only person
power of words, the ability to convince, and to socialize     breathing oxygen nor can I resist gravity! I may have
easily. You know something about everything; you              a gift that when combined with my brains and
can speak about any topic and have your own view.             thoughts, results in a fruitful outcome. Only then can
It’s always an experience in itself when talking to           I help myself and proudly feel progress and deep
you. I can never get enough from having a dive                character development. Yet, it’s never enough to
with you in the pool of thoughts, as you get me               think only about myself. Actually, it’s even nicer and
looking from a different perception to the same               more pleasing to feel like helping other people and
thought every time. You know how to inspire people,           totally changing their lives!
affect them and how to lead others. You’re the dream
that I dream of turning true one day because                  This is MY DREAM Oprah! Sound familiar? I know it
unfortunately you don’t exist!                                does because I found you did all that. I found that
                                                              you achieved all what I want to achieve. I don’t know
                                   Yasser Abbas, 19           how to say it, but I have true feelings of respect for
                                                              you. You deserve the best! Wait one day to hear
                                                              about Doaa Samy that followed in your footsteps!
Dearest Oprah Winfrey,                                                                             Best Regards,
After sending you all my greetings and warm wishes,                                                  Doaa Samy
I just thought of sharing what I have in mind here
with everybody including you of course.                       P.S. Oprah Winfrey was named one of the 100 Most
Knowing someone like you Oprah, has added a lot to            Influential People of the 20th Century by Time
me. The way you started your career was and still is          Magazine, and in 1998 received a Lifetime Achievement
extremely magnetic. You strived a lot to achieve your         Award from the National Academy of Television Arts
dream. You never gave up and always fought to hit             and Sciences.
your target, to be what you are now!




18 . February 2006 . TeenStuff                                                            www.teenstuffonline.com
What If…we never




 Drop by drop those
 particles embrace
 my cheeks. To my
   surprise, it all
 happened without
ordering my pair of
lids to cover up any
of my iris! ‘Wet’ can
  actually describe
  the status of my
eyelashes. Screams
of mine aren’t even
 heard. My lips are
    stretched and
slightly opened but                 A loud utterance; often in protest or opposition, a loud utterance of
    my ears hear                    emotion especially when unable to articulate, can be summed up in only
                                    one word ‘cry.’ Crying is an extremely healthy process where you can
nothing except inner                get out all of your suppressed passion of the outer world. Some people
                                    prevent themselves from crying in front of any body; thinking that
  explosions! I had                 crying is evidence of weakness. I’m with you that sometimes it’s pretty
                                    private while on the other hand, I’m not for hiding our feelings. That’s

  never imagined I                  highly dangerous!


can do that one day;
  such an image of                  The worst thing you can ever
watery circles going                    do is to cry silently
   down my face
    without even                    You know what? I’m telling you it’s dangerous to hide your feelings yet
                                    I always try to keep my feelings inside until I reach a place where I’m
blinking once, have                 all alone! Yeah! I do that; maybe because personality tests consider me
                                    an introverted character that recharges power from within. Well, I
  never crossed my                  disagree with that. One may have times when he/she feels like sitting
                                    with oneself and meeting nobody at all. But that doesn’t mean that I
        mind.                       don’t like to see people when I’m depressed or out of mood. Your
                                    companions always help change your mood. They actually get you out
                                    of your uninterrupted condition that keeps you indulged in the same
                                    connected circle of thoughts and sentiments.
                                    Let me talk about the worst act related to the crying process. If you


  22 . February 2006 . TeenStuff                                                      www.teenstuffonline.com
look back at the first lines when                                                         never.
I was describing how crying can
take place without either blinking                                                        Hope I have helped
or sobbing, you’ll already have a                                                         change some of the
drawn image in mind about what                                                            wrong conceptions
I want to say.                                                                            about crying and made
The worst thing you can ever do                                                           you somehow aware of
is to cry silently! To keep your                                                          the benefits. Yet, you’ve
sounds inside and prevent them                                                            got to take care that
from waving through the                                                                   there is a small
surrounding outer atmosphere is                                                           difference between
more like suffocating. Imagine                                                            expressing oneself and
that you’re about to drown and                                                            being redundant in one
suddenly find a floating piece of                                                         way or another. I call for
wood. When you quickly try to                                                             crying just when truly
reach it and get over, you find it                                                        needed to aid you to
broken and so heavy that it has                                                           take a step forward,
enough power to pull you                                                                  nonetheless, continuous
downward! That’s exactly the case.                                                        crying for trivial reasons
                                                                                          is disliked and will make
Why don’t we analyze?                                                                     people think poorly
                                                                                          about you.
Why does anyone cry? It’s a
reflexive action similar to your                                                          Finally, I’d like to change
cough when any particle - other                                                           your mood now by
than air - disrupts your esophagus                                                        letting you sing! Yes,
while eating or drinking. Crying                                                          you must sing for me
is a mixture of inner sentiments                                                          “HaPpy BirthdaY!” I may
due to certain outer conditions                                                           be celebrating now if it’s
that create pressure and lead to                                                          February 1st! Grab the
a normal transformation from a                                                            chance and sing with
calm state to a somewhat stormy                                                           me…ooops! -- I mean
one. It’s one of man’s basic rights                                                       for me :) And let me
to express!                                                                               discover how my 19th
If I can’t cry, I would die, I always                                                     year will look like.
think. They sometimes say sobbing
is not the solution! No, I disagree.
It may not help solve the problem
but it’ll sure help the person get      -
better to solve the problem! When
I face a shock, I must internally
react first before starting to think
                                            Love to cry to get it all out
how to solve it. Involuntary I find
myself down; resultantly,                     and renew your mood.
disappointment may be a proper
inner feeling that will push me to
express that physically as well and
                                                Crying is a blessing
that’s why tears are there. Tears
are there to flow and                   If you are skating and fall down
flow…streaming down your eyes           and break your arm, I tell you that
and cheeks carrying the excess          you WILL definitely cry - based on
charge out of your body.                a personal experience!                  Write me back, tell me what you
                                        - If you haven’t ever tasted your       think and if you have any special
They say these quotes about             tears you wouldn’t ever know the        experience, you’re more than
crying:                                 meaning of laughter!                    welcome to share it. Send your
- The sorrow which has no vent in                                               mail to: info@teenstuffonline.com
tears may make other organs             Enjoy all of your reactions; freely      It’s important to do that if you
weep. Henry Maudsley                    express your sadness and agony.         want to contribute. Thanks!
- Let your tears come. Let them         Discover how magical it is to feel
water your soul. Eileen Mayhew          satisfaction and strong inner will
- Laughter and tears are both           that can enable you change a
responses to frustration and            situation 180 degrees. Fall down
exhaustion. I myself prefer to          and get up, then fall down once          Wishing you a
laugh, since there is less cleaning     more and get up again even
up to do afterward. Kurt Vonnegut
- The soul would have no rainbow
                                        stronger than before. No problem
                                        with that. We’re here to learn and
                                                                                  very Happy
had the eyes no tears. John Vance
Cheney
                                        benefit; to laugh sometimes and
                                        cry at other times but most
                                                                                Valentine’s Day
                                        important is each one’s self
I say this about crying:                expression. Let me repeat: Don’t                           Doaa Samy, 19
- A baby’s first sound uttered is a     deprive yourself from your basic
cry!                                    rights. Love to cry to get it all out
- When you lose a very special          and renew your mood. Crying is
person, you cry deeply.                 a blessing! Evaluate it now or



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Aregica
         "When imagination becomes the only fact"
Welcome to Aregica News Room Channel!                     It's not
Transmission 172' Middle East through Teen Stuff          surprising to
Sat!                                                      hear that 500
For those who don't know Aregica, it’s a country          million pounds
anywhere on some place on Mars. Whether, you’re           are spent
an Aregicanian citizen or not, believe me; you'll get     every year on
excited with Aregica News Room.                           private
Aregica News Room brings the event right to your          lessons. These
place.                                                    private lessons
Aregica News Room discusses hot issues.                   aren’t
Aregica News Room is your eyes to the Aregicanian
world.
                                                          restricted only
                                                          to school
Just free your imagination and live the moment with       students but
Aregica News Room!                                        also university
                                                          students. This
Good evening, everyone! Happy Valentine to all of you!    situation puts
Let's start with the headlines:                           the Aregican
1) The New BAL in the United States Of Aregica            government in
2) Private Lessons - Private Lessons Forever              a real dilemma
3) The New Electronic Government                          in how to stop
                                                          those teachers


         Detailed News:                                      It's not surprising to hear
                                                              that 500 million pounds
1) The New BAL in the United                                  are spent every year on
   States Of Aregica                                               private lessons
In an outstanding move, the United States of Aregica
has established a                                         who are used to earning 210,000 Aregican pounds a
new organization                                          month and convince them to be satisfied with 1000
called BAL. BAL                                           only. Frankly speaking, the Aregican family is the only
stands for Blue Ant                                       victim!!
Lovers and the
organization aims at
providing the
appropriate                                               3) The New Electronic
environment for the
blue ants to prevent
                                                            Government
their extinction. BAL
is saving no effort to                                    After establishing the new electronic government,
ban all home                                              predictions have arisen on how this government would
insecticides due to their great harm to blue ants. Blue   react towards many internal affairs that Aregicans care
ants don’t die by ordinary home insecticides but their    about. Aregicans want to know the correct figures and
respiratory system may be affected leading to severe      not the fake ones they’re used to. Aregicans are in
pneumonia.                                                bad need to trust the government’s words just for
Finally, Aregica News Room crew finds it meaningless      once. They’re fed up with the usual slogans that are
to conclude that blue ants are much more worthy than      rarely applied. Aregicans would never like to repeatedly
those innocent children, who are killed everyday in       see the violence spreading that way it happened during
Calestine and Biraq by the bullets of the United States   the Aregican Parliament elections. Aregican youth are
of Aregica soldiers. Those children who've done nothing   dreaming to have job opportunities when they graduate.
except being born humans and not blue ants!!              Aregicans want to see real justice that never
                                                          differentiates between this and that. They want to feel
                                                          secure in their Motherland. Aregicans would like to
2) Private Lessons… Private                               omit the word street children from their dictionary.
   Lessons Forever                                        Finally, Aregicans
                                                          want to be proud that they’re Aregicans!
Last week, the well-known private lessons teacher
raised his fees up to one hundred Aregican pounds per     That’s the end of our episode. Happy Valentine again
lesson for each of the seventy-five students in every     and we’re sorry to have this serious and dramatic news
group. It was all because he wanted to spend the          taking up the whole space because we, simply, had no
summer months, this year, in Hawaii and not in Spain      other choice than to state the facts!
as usual. With a very short and easy calculation, one
can get that this poor teacher earns about 210,000        See you next episode,
Aregican pounds per month, which will help him, travel
to Hawaii this year.                                                                            Noha Samara, 21
                                                                                  Illustration by: Adnan Hesham


 24 . February 2006 . TeenStuff                                                         www.teenstuffonline.com
ARE you always drawing during             long...just relax and scribble!
                                                                           phone calls, while studying,
                                                                           thinking?                                 1- Sketch a face...
                                                                           Discover the meaning of your              2- Draw a tree
                                                                           scribbles and what they reveal            3- Sketch a heart.
                                                                                                                     4- Draw a house; big, small, cottage
                                                                           about the inner you...                    or castle. Whatever you want!
                                                                           You will be asked to draw different       And the secrets of your
         your HEART out!                                                   things.....Don't worry, it won't take    symbols will be revealed


  Reveals a lot about                   Trees in general tell                    Always signifies home and                      It is the core of your
  your real self                        a lot about your life                    family, so check out your                      love and
                                        and your destiny.                        attitude towards them...                       relationships...
                                        Here's what your tree
        Happy, smiling face:                                                      Large house
                                        says about you...
                 You are fun                                                      You love your
                                                     Rounded and                  family, besides                             Rounded at the base:
                to be around,                           clouded-
                    which                                                         respecting                                  You are so loyal and very
                                                         shaped:                  them; that is                               passionate!
                 reveals the                             You are
                fact that you                                                     why you are
                                                      sociable and
                 have lots of                          kind. It also              the center of
                   friends!                           signifies that              attention at
                    Great!                           you are feeling              home.
   Profile:                                          on the top right
You are very                              Bare             now!
  ambitious;                           branches:                                  Tall, thin house:
                                       You do not                                 Indicating a family                         Pointed base:
   you are                                                                                                                    Your
   always                                express                                  quarrel or relative
                                     yourself much,                               rivalry, don't worry it                     relationships are
looking to the                                                                                                                somehow
   future!                             but you are                                will blow over soon!
                                     ambitious and                                                                            perfect, but you
                        Long              pretty                                                                              are a bit jealous
                     eyelashes:      successful too!                              Lots of windows:                            sometimes so
                    You are into                         Covered in               You are                                     take care!
                  fashion and like                       leaves and               lucky to
                   to be praised a                          fruits:               have
                   lot and waited                        You are an               such a
                     upon, too!                         open-minded               big and
                                                          and happy               warm
  Big lips:                                              person who               family,
   You are                                              loves having              but you are sometimes a bit nosy             Arrow through heart:
sensual and                                             loads of fun!             and like to know everything that             You are a daydreamer, always
  romantic,                                                                       is going on.                                 dreaming to fall in love and
    and                                   Christmas                                                                            soon you will!
  everyone                                   tree:
 loves you!                                You are
Lucky you!                               energetic and                                                                      Broken heart:
                                          one of your                                                                       You are very much
                                             kind!                                                                          affected by a
                                                                                                                            break-up or your
                   Long hair:
                                                                                                                            relationship is not
                     You are
                                                               Palm tree:                                                   stable. Time to get
                   creative and
                                                              You want to                                                   out!
                  spontaneous!                                                    House surrounded by a fence:
                     Keep it!                                 unleash your
                                                              adventurous         Your home is a secure and safe
                                                            spirit and escape     place for you; that is why you
                                                                                  love spending quality time with
                                                            responsibilities!     your family.                              Overlapping
Short or spiky                        Messy or shaded                                                                       hearts:
      hair:                                 tree:
                                       You are worried                                                                      You are living
   You love                                                                                                                 a healthy and a
    yourself;                         about something
                                      nowadays or may                              House and a                              happy
obviously you                                                                      shining sun:                             relationship.
 like to be the                          be you lack
                                        confidence in                              You have a perfect                       Lucky you!
    center of                                                                      happy family.
                                     something, but don't
   attention!                        worry it won't take                           Lucky you!
                                            long!



        Suss Your Symbols                                                        - Arrows: you have got a focused mind!
                                                                                 - Numbers: you are very organized!
                                                                                 - Crosses: you are wise and spiritual, but you need some
        - Animals: you are happy, kind and romantic!                             guidance too!
        - Balloons: you have got a loving personality and very                   - Stars: you have high aspirations!
           enthusiastic!                                                         - Circles: you are romantic and sincere!
        - Clouds: clear fluffy clouds; show that you are a daydreamer,           - Squares: you are practical and reliable!
        but dark ones show that you are worried about something!                 - Spirals: you are stressed and you need to rest!
        - Crown: you will do anything to be famous and rich!                     - Infinity: someone loves you and thinks about you all the
        - Ring: you are seeking for a long-lasting, secure relationship!         time!
        - Sun: you will live life to the full!
PUMA®
                 Launches Statement Product at African Cup
                                                of Nations_
                            Eight Teams To Debut New 2006 v1.06 Concept In Egypt

PUMA® unveiled its new 2006                   seams for improved comfort. The new          famous player Samuel Eto’s answered, “i
football statement concept,                   specially developed woven fabric keeps       believe all players like to get on to the
                                              the weight down to a minimum whilst          pitch feeling as light as possible, as long
the v1.06, at the 2006 African                providing superior moisture management       as they are not naked. This boot brings
Cup of Nations_ in Egypt in                   to keep the player dry and comfortable.      you that possibility, to take the pitch
January. As proud supplier to                                                              feeling light but wearing a football boot.
eight elite teams competing                   v1.06 Boot                                   The design is very nice, a few details have
                                                                                           been changed during the test periods but
in the tournament (Angola,                    Created with one objective in mind, to       I believe that they are now on the list of
Cameroon, Egypt, Ghana,                       get players to the ball faster, the v1.06    everyone that wants to play a game of
Ivory Coast, Senegal, Togo                    boot was designed create split second        football.”
and Tunisia) the event sat the                advantages. The lightest PUMA boot on        As for his opinion of the Kt he said “The
                                              the market, the upper is constructed from    fabric is good … things have
pace for 2006 with the debut                  an extremely thin and specially developed    changed a ot. This I much
of the new v1.06 playing kit.                 synthetic ConTec textile material for        lighter for a player and I see
                                              increased speed, stamina, leather like       a lot of potential. Let’s just
Designed to get the players to the ball       touch and close control. The fine-tuned      see if it brings luck to those
faster, the state of the art v1.06 playing    PUMA AptoLast and asymmetrical Lace          wearing it.”
kit introduces a revolutionary lightweight    Wrap system allow the boot to mould to
proposition with an out and out focus on      the natural shape of the foot for optimal    On 19th of January
aerodynamic advantages and comfort.           energy preservation.                         Puma announced a
The v1.06 shirt utilizes a brand new tear                                                  charitable partnership
resistant fabric developed in collaboration                                                with United For Africa
with Manchester Metropolitan University.      v1.06 Ball                                   leading up to the
 The resulting kit, federation badges                                                      World of football
included, weighs a mere 100g while                                    Introducing a        Championships in
providing optimal moisture wicking and                                new-patented         June. The
evaporation demanded by top flight                                    panel concept
                                                                      based on a           organization will
players.                                                                                   directly benefit from
                                                                      verified
                                                                                           the sales and
In an effort to honor and stress the                                  geometrical          proceeds of special
individuality of each team, PUMA has                                  approach, this       projects launched
designed a new graphic treatment unique                               construction         in PUMA concept
to each country. The jersey features a                                secures the
                                                                      roundest, most       stores and
tonal print of a visual icon representative                                                special retail
of the personality and heritage of each                               technically
                                                                                           formats this
football team.                                                        advanced ball on     summer.
                                              the market. Continuing with PUMA’s
                                              patented dimple technology, the new
v1.06 Playing Shirt                           v1.06 ball delivers more speed, further
                                              distance and improved control.
                       Sticking to the
                       overall design                                                                    Samuel Eto
                       concept of getting     v1.06 Goalkeeper Glove
                       you to the ball
                       faster, the v1.06      In tune with the concept design brief, the
                       shirt was              new v1.06 goalkeeper glove sets out to
                       engineered and         provide top class goalkeepers with a
                       crafted with           lightweight glove proposition further
                       aerodynamics in        enhancing the proven performance
                       mind. The most         features of PUMA gloves.
                       lightweight shirt
                       on the market, the     When asked upon his impression of the
v1.06 game shirt is fully welded with no      new PUMA [V1.06] and the design the


       February 2006 . TeenStuff                                                                       www.teenstuffonline.com
Sami Youssef
  and New Release at Virgin
  On February 18, 2006,        closer to people
  Virgin Megastore             because there are
  hosted, for distribution,    specialized people for
  the signing of Sami          preaching who know
  Youssef's new album,         their job well and he is
  My Ummah                     not one of them.
  Youssef arrived at Virgin    "Preaching might not
  Megastores at 6:30 pm        serve its right purpose
  and was received with        if was forced upon
  applauding and               people especially
  cheering fans while the      through art and in
  attendees presented          singing," he explained.
  him lovely bouquets of
  roses.                       After answering all the
  Youssef, first, started by   questions, Sami Youssef
  singing some of his new      stared signing posters
  album's songs and then       and CDs for the
  answered questions           attendees and as he
  from his fans.               was leaving, his fans
                               wouldn't let him go and
  Sami Youssef stated          insisted that he stay. He
  clearly that he is not a     apologized for not being
  religious preacher and       able to speak Arabic and
  that he doesn't believe      promised his fans that
  preaching is what will       this will change soon
  bring              him       because he is working
                               on that to be able to
                               communicate with his
                               fans. He said that loves
                               Egyptians because he
                               can sense that they are
                               good by nature and
                               sociable.
                               The event ended with
                               Youssef singing his new
                               song, Free, which talks
                               about Hejab and he
                               promised his fans a
                               concert soon in
                               Alexandria's Library.




Blo od donation league is a
collaboration between Egyptian
national blood transfusion services
& www.egypt2006.com web site
as a side activity for the African
Nations Cup.

Its principle simply is to make use of the competitive
spirit between different football clubs' fans & direct it
to be transformed into positive charitable attitude,
especially in blood donation with our slogan to be “IN
THAT WE SHOULD COMPETE”
Every one can participate in this league through
registering him/her self as regular blood donor in a
web base registration form on www.egypt2006.com
& to register the name of his favorite club & the blood
center will call him/her to inform him/her about the
nearest blood center to donate blood. At the end of
the league, the winning club will be the one chosen
by the largest No. of blood donors.


On Thursdays, as well, there will be a fixed blood
campaign in Ramsis square in front of the Main Railway
Station & another mobile blood campaign rotating in
different clubs weekly.


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On January 19, 2006, Seeds
                                of Peace Delegation Leaders
                                of Egypt, and AMIDEAST
                                Egypt, held an Award
                                Ceremony for the Seeds of
                                Peace Art Competition.
                                Teen Stuff staff was very
        pleased to be there to share in this inspiring event.
        The competition was held during International
        Education Week in Cairo and Alexandria on
        November 12 and 18, respectively. The competition
        invited students aged 12 to 16 years to create
        drawings and paintings that encourage peace,
        tolerance, empathy, acceptance, patience, and co-
        existence. Both Seeds of Peace and AMIDEAST are
        organizations dedicated to increasing cultural
        understanding within and between communities
        around the world. This contest is an outgrowth of
        their work.
        Seventeen schools were represented by 75 participating
        students. A committee of four professional artists judged
        the artwork and selected the best twelve paintings and
        then short listed them to identify the top five
        winning works. There were seven winners in Cairo and
        five in Alexandria.
        Seeds of Peace published a 2006 calendar to highlight
        the best twelve creations, which were identified with
        the names of the young artists under each month’s
        image. This calendar was distributed to all participating
        schools, all Seeds of Peace Delegation Leaders around
        the world, AMIDEAST, and the artists who judged the
        student competition.
        Congratulations and thanks to everyone who supported
        this event!




30 . February 2006 . TeenStuff
Campaign
   Awards
    2005
Campaign Middle East has announced for the first
time ever the short list for the Campaign Awards 2005.
The awards is a huge event for the region’s advertising
and media agencies. With awards given out for 13
different categories, meaning the ultimately creative
minds in the region all in one event, taking place on
January 31st, 2006 in Dubai.
With the overwhelming amount of more than 600
entries received for the awards from around the
region, the first round of judging took place in Dubai
two weeks ago, followed by yet an extra round to
create a shortlist for each category.
20 judges from top advertising, media and PR agencies
under the chairmanship of Unilever Middle East boss
Jan Zijderveld gathered at the Fairmont Hotel in Dubai
to debate the entries.
The agencies and campaigns that were considered
exceptional in the region were short listed were
announced on December 25th.
Where does Egypt fit in the region’s? , you might ask.
Well, Egypt has scooped up 3 entries on the short-
lists in three different categories.
And the Short-lists are (drum roll please………)

*Media Agency of the year:
Zenith Cairo
Initiative
Mindshare MENA
OMD
UM7

*Advertising Agency of the Year
Face to Face
JWT
Lowe
Partnership
Saatchi & Saatchi
Tonic

*Media Plan of the year
Virgin Megastore, Zenith Cairo
Barbican, Initiative
Emirates Today, OMD
Heineken, MindShare
Rani Float, initiative
Tiida, OMD
Vodafone Kuwait, MindShare


*TV Campaign of the year
Beirut Marathon, Leo Burnett Beirut
Crest Lighthouse, Saatchi & Saatchi
Domino’s , JWT
Exotica Flower Shop, Leo Burnett Beirut
Ford Mustang, Drive, Team Y & R
Mobinil Mercedes, Leo Burnett Cairo
Twix, TBWARaad

Congratulations to Zenith & Leo Burnett for
voicing out Egypt’s exceptional work among the
region’s Advertising & media fields.




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Syria at a Crossroad: Will it be another Iraq?
                “The Assassination of a Legend”
Date: February 14th 2005.                                   himself) saying: "I have... submitted the resignation
Place: North of Beirut                                      of the government and I have declared that I will not
Scene: ASSASINATION!                                        be a candidate to head the (next) government."
                                                            Hariri's contributions were numerous. Among the
It is a quiet spring day in Lebanon. A convey of a few      most notable is the fact that he educated 30,000
cars is moving along the beachfront. Its appearance         Lebanese students inside and outside of Lebanon and
indicates that it contains some important people. The       spent millions of dollars of his own personal money
camera takes you then for an inside look of the             to redefine the face of social structure in Lebanon.
                             motorcade to see some          He donated a great deal of money to charity and
                             famous figures like Rafik      invested in Lebanon when few others were willing to
                             Hariri (the former Lebanese    risk doing so. He worked towards unity of the different
                             Prime Minister) and Bassel     religious and ethnic groups and rebuilding the nation.
                             Fleihan, the former Minister   On June 22, 2005, Beirut International Airport was
                             of Economy and                 renamed Rafik Hariri International Airport in honor
                             Commerce. Among others,        of Rafik Hariri, all of which proves that Hariri was an
                             they were both members         extraordinary man. However, unlike many other
                             of the Lebanese parliament     important figures who were assassinated, the whole
                             and were heading home          world was concerned with this man’s death.
                             after an important session
at the parliament.                                          “The White House condemned the attack and said
The scene suddenly is disrupted when explosives             Lebanon should be allowed to pursue its political
equivalent to 1,000 kg. of TNT are                                                future free from violence...
detonated creating a devastating blast                                            and free from Syrian
causing a huge rift in the ground,                                                occupation.”
killing several people including Rafik                                            Spokesman Scott McClellan
Hariri, and injuring dozens of others.                                            said he was not trying to “link
                                                                                  Syria with the bombing,”
Flashback now with the director as                                                adding that “Washington did
he takes us back several years ago                                                not know who was
to tell us who was Rafik Hariri, and                                              responsible,” Reuters News
why was he be assassinated in such                                                Agency reported.
a way.
                                                                                    Sorry Mr. McClellan, if you
Rafik Bahaa Al Din Al Hariri was a                                                  claim that Washington didn’t
Lebanese Muslim, self-made billionaire                                              know who was responsible
and business tycoon. He left Lebanon                                                and that you are not trying
in 1965 to work in Saudi Arabia for                                                 to link Syria with the
a construction company, and there,                                                  bombings then why would you
he accumulated vast amounts of
wealth in a short period of time and
emerged as a powerful construction tycoon. In 1978          mention Syria in the first
Hariri was made a citizen of Saudi Arabia by the Saudi      place? And why would you
royal family as a reward for the high quality of his        link the Syrian presence in
entrepreneurial services, and he became the Kingdom's       Lebanon to violence?
representative in Lebanon. He then went on to become
Saudi Arabia's leading entrepreneur.                        This episode was much more
In 1982, he donated $12 million to Lebanese victims         interesting than the last one
of Israel's invasions and helped restore Beirut's streets   because after the
with his own money. He also used his personal wealth        assassination everything
to finance the Taif Accord in 1989, which put an end        changed. A revolution
to the civil war.                                           aroused in Lebanon, which was then called the Cedar
In 1993 he founded the television station, Future TV        Revolution. Syria was being pressured to pull out of
in Beirut and purchased stakes in several Lebanese          Lebanon (as if it was proved that Syria was the reason
newspapers. He founded his own newspaper, Al-               behind the assassination) and the crisis escalated to
Mustaqbal (The Future). He was also the biggest             a terrifying level, putting Syria in a corner. And the
shareholder in Solidere, the joint-stock company that       whole world watched and waited for the Syrian and
almost single handedly transformed and revived              Lebanese reaction.
central Beirut following the Lebanese civil war.
Hariri served as Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1992        What was the reaction? Who was the new figure that
to 1998, then again from                                    left Syria shaking whenever they hear his name?
2000 until October, 20,                                     What is the Cedar Revolution?
2004. Hariri resigned both                                  You know the rules; if you know the answers, send
times because he was                                        me back at:
against the extension of                                    If you do not, then wait for the next episode in March
President Lahoud’s term as                                  and try to read some newspapers during the meantime!
pressured by the Syrian
government (as Lahoud is                                                                        Yasser Abbas, 19
considered a pro-Syrian




  32 . February 2006 . TeenStuff                                                            www.teenstuffonline.com
Women in Afghanistan:
      Who is Responsible for
        their Oppression?
                                                                                 still being abused, harassed, and
                                                                                 threatened all over Afghanistan, often
                                                                                 by government troops and officials,"
                                                                                 as stated by Zama Coursen-Neff, co-
                                                                                 author of the Human Rights Watch
                                                                                 report and counsel to the Children's
                                                                                 Rights Division of Human Rights
                                                                                 Watch.
                                                                                 "The U.S.-led coalition justified the
                                                                                 war against the Taliban in part by
                                                                                 promising that it would liberate
                                                                                 Afghanistan's women and girls," said
                                                                                 Coursen-Neff. “In fact, by supporting
                                                                                 repressive warlords, the international
                                                                                 community has broken that promise
                                                                                 and forsaken women's rights."
                                                                                 The Afghan Human Rights
                                                                                 Commission, which is mandated to
                                                                                 monitor human rights conditions and
                                                                                 investigate abuse, is not receiving
                                                                                 sufficient political and moral support
                                                                                 from the international community,
                                                                                 including the U.N., to effectively
                                                                                 investigate or monitor human rights
                                                                                 conditions. Over the last twelve
                                                                                 months, Human Rights Watch has
                                                                                 itself documented serious human
Decades of civil war are more than                                               rights abuse against women and girls
enough to crush any country which                                                by warlords all over Afghanistan.
is exactly what happened to
Afghanistan. The costs of this civil                                             Outside of Kabul, women and girls
war are enormous; more than one                                                  have faced serious circumstances
million civilians are believed to have                                           that threaten their physical safety,
been killed and countless others                                                 including sexual violence. In the
injured. The catastrophic                                                        North, three rival forces have abused
consequences of this war have                                                    Pashtun civilians, including raping
weighed heavily on the women of                                                  entire households and girls as young
Afghanistan.                                                                     as fourteen. Will the international
                                                                                 community continue to sit idle as
Naturally, men and women have                                                    human rights are clearly being
suffered the hardships of that war:      Zabul, Logar, and Wardak. Local         perpetrated against women in
Indiscriminate bombings and shelling     forces have done little to prevent
of residential areas, destruction and    these attacks.
displacement and being the victims
of deliberate and arbitrary killings     Many Afghans expected the
and "disappearances." But in addition    international community to stand up
to all that, women in Afghanistan        to warlords but the international
have suffered from gender specific       community's inability to fulfill its
human rights abuse, such as rape         commitments toward women in
and sexual assaults, forced marriages    Afghanistan threatens the promise
and prostitution. Women in               of the post-Taliban era. Now many
Afghanistan were often treated as        are angry and disillusioned with the
the spoils of war.                       United States, the United Nations
                                         and the international presence in       Afghanistan?
It appears that armed guards were        Afghanistan generally.
ignored by leaders, as a method of                                               And why is not the intervention of
threatening vanquished populations       "Many people outside the country        the United States obvious in the case
and of rewarding soldiers. Many          believe that Afghan women and girls     of the Afghan women? Who is to
women were raped by armed guards         have had their rights restored. It is   blame and who is RESPONSIBLE for
during the period from 1992 - 1995.      just not true. “Women and girls are     the dreadful situation of the Afghan
Many Afghan women reportedly                                                     women; The Taliban regime, the
committed suicide to avoid such a                                                United Nations, the United States or
fate.                                                                            the international community as a
                                                                                 whole? For your own knowledge,
Neither Afghan men nor women are                                                 while we are sitting here debating,
allowed to take part in the decision                                             numerous young women and girls
making process but this oppression                                               are being beaten, raped and killed.
is falling doubly hard on women, who                                             And we still have not figured out who
also face the general political                                                  is responsible!
oppression of women. Schools for
girls have been attacked with rockets
or set on fire in at least five                                                                       Dina Wahba, 19
provinces: Kandahar, Sar-e Pol,

   www.teenstuffonline.com                                                             TeenStuff . February 2006 . 33
8) Eat with a teaspoon and chew
                                                                                    slowly. That makes you feel full
                                                                                quickly.
                                                                               9) Don’t eat after 8 p.m.
                                                                               10) Don’t eat between meals.
                               1) Deal with yourself as if you’re a normal
                               body-sized person but who must follow a         Now, for a few other tips you can follow.
                               few steps to look better.                       How can your clothes help you reduce your
                                                                               shape?
‘Plus-size,’ ‘full-            2) You have to go on a balanced diet which
bodied,’ ‘heavy,’              supplies your body with vitamins and
                               energy. (Don’t stop eating or only eat an
                                                                               - Try to wear dark colored clothes like black,
                                                                               blue-black, brown or dark brown. They’ll
‘large,’ ‘full-                apple as a meal, for example, because
                               you’ll gain the weight you lost as soon as
                                                                               make you look thinner.

figured.’ These are            you start eating normally again).               - Don’t wear clothes with folds. They’ll
                                                                               make you look larger!
just a few of the              3) Practice, daily, any kind of sport you
terms used to                  want for 20 minutes. It’ll help you to lose
                               weight and to re-shape your body.
                                                                               - It isn’t preferable to wear flowered clothes.
                                                                               Plain, solid clothes are better for you.
describe those of                                                              - Pockets, pockets! All teenagers like
us who wear sizes                                                              pockets but what you don’t realize is that
                                                                               pockets make you look larger.
of double digits.
                                                                               - If you like jeans with back pockets, try
But now it’s time to                                                           to wear jeans with large back pockets.
throw away all of                                                              WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? TRY THESE
these terms by                                                                 TIPS NOW!!

facing our                                                                                                             Hadiel
problems without
being shy because
overweight is one
of the biggest
teenagers’                     4) Drink at least three cups of green tea
                               a day. It’ll help you to lose weight faster.
problems and we
must face it.                  5) You can take green tea as tablets. It’s
                               natural and 100 percent safe.
SO LET’S FOLLOW                6) Drink at least two glasses of water before
THESE STEPS:                   each meal. It’ll make you feel full quickly.
                               7) You needn’t eat from a large plate. A
                               small bowl is enough. (DON’T REFILL IT!)



    36 . January 2006 . TeenStuff                                                               www.teenstuffonline.com
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  • 2. February 2006 Issue # 96 www.teenstuffonline.com
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  • 4. THIS ISSUE February 20065 A Word from us Tune Up 64 Plain Talk The Land is mine Mail Star Corner Sweet Fantasy Fun with Dick and Bits and Pieces Jane From the Heart We comment Thoughts G- Articles Up Coming Prose Flashback Attractions Open Letter Think Green Introspection What If In Focus Aregica Obsessions… Dig Out Confessions Yours!! Chill Out Teenz Stars Political Mania Teenz Fitness
  • 6. Friendship Hi Teen Stuff, This is my first time to write to you teens. First of all, I like your magazine very much. You choose the most important issues and have very good writers who have a sense of humor. Can I be a friend of this great magazine? My name is Smsma khalofsky and I live in the Mokattam area. I have a request; can you write about friendship nowadays? Missing Sections! Smsma Hi Teens, Dear Smsma, You’re the best English magazine I've ever read. I started Nice to hear from you and thank reading TS since last September and you’re really my favorite you so much for your magazine. But I’m so sad because last January you left out my overwhelming feedback. We’re favorite two things that I love the best in the magazine. They’re so glad that you like the We Comment and Famous Star’s Birthdays ........ PLZ don’t magazine and we’ll keep on miss that again! doing our best to live up to your The biggest fan you'll never lose, expectation, guys. We’ll suggest Dr_FrEeZ your topic to our staff and if any are interested, they’ll write Dear Dr_FrEeZ, about it. Hopefully, if there’s It was really nice reading your mail. Thank you for your kind any teen reading this mail now words and we’re glad that our magazine has appealed to you. and interested in writing on such Sorry about the missing sections but sometimes we’re forced a topic, we’d like to hear from to cancel certain things because we run out of space. them also. Hope to keep on Unfortunately, we don’t have famous birthdays again this month hearing from you. but we hope you’ll enjoy reading We Comment. Thanks again and keep your mail coming. 6 . December 2005 . TeenStuff
  • 7. Funny how all over the world tourists are treated as second degree citizens except here in Egypt. Remember a regular citizen always comes second. Alfajr It’s a real disaster that one of Islam’s Pillars is now being ruled by the concept of personal interests and gaining more money out of it. Alfajr Still we wonder why youth is pessimistic and see no future in this country Couldn’t have put it in a better way. I just don’t understand how can any actor consider acting in such a farce. And we blame teachers for private lessons! There is a message here teens; teaching pays nothing, so stick to playing football. Al Ahram We pay thousands and thousands on festivals and carnivals, in fear of being accused of ignorance and not appreciating culture and art I’ll leave this question for you to answer; which is better a country without international festivals or without decent education? Al Masry Al Youm www.teenstuffonline.com TeenStuff . February 2006 . 7
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  • 9. Love Me, Love My Dog! Pets are one of the best joy providers on earth. I always dreamt of having a dog my whole life but I never had one until my last birthday in September. It was a gift from my husband who, by the way, was constantly rejecting the idea of having a dog in our house. However, knowing that for me, this would be the best birthday present EVER, he surprised me with the cutest puppy I could possibly ever imagine. As you would expect, the very first thing that occupied our minds was what will we call him? We searched Escaping Reality the Net over and over again for dogs' names because I really wanted a very unique word to be the direct Drowning in a whirl of thoughts contact between me and my dream. While searching, Distant agonizing screams haunt I made a joke about calling him Buzz Lightyear like the character in Disney’s Toy Story. Surprisingly, the me joke left a terrific, remarkable echo in our ears and Violent winds rushing past my ears we actually decided to call him Buzz. Swarmed with blinding darkness Having spent less than two months with Buzz, you’d Gracefully I fall on a bed of roses hardly believe how much he’s become a real effective part of my life. And I think I've become a part of his Viewing my only refuge life too. He makes me the happiest person when I A world I built to escape have to stay away for a while and come back home Dwelling in this sparkling isolation to find him waiting by the door hopping and leaping, smiling and showing his small lower teeth, just Clinging to this fantasy with all my because he saw me. But also I won't skip the part strength right after I say hi and give him a shower of kisses on my way in; gradually Disregarding the remote calling of discovering the my name mess he makes, especially when Let me stay…Let me stay… it comes to shoes. And right at this moment, it feels like BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzz. But then again, one of the funniest things he does is the way he runs back and forth, right and left all in a second trying to confuse me so that I can't catch him. In fact, it does Don’t you ever get that urging feeling of wanting become hard, sometimes impossible, when he uses to get away from this world? I’m not talking about this smart technique which, mostly, makes me forget taking the first flight out of your country, I mean about punishing him and stand laughing at his hilarious heading straight to a place only you know how to action as if he's trying to win a battle or something. access. A place that’s deep within the insides of your brain. Once you find it, when you feel that Moreover, when he sleeps and I make any noise the world has suddenly gone dark, you lock yourself around him causing the slightest disturbance, he there for hours and hours, just imagining; whether wakes up and looks at me with his sleepy innocent it’s jumping into your favorite book or movie to eyes; watching me carefully, fighting the urge to live in that world, or just creating a world of your close his eyes and trying to figure out if I’m staying own. A world that’s so perfect and magnificent in the same place or going somewhere else. just for you. Only then, have you escaped reality. Sometimes, I have to pretend I’m staying so that he Escaping reality happens when it’s hard to accept goes to sleep again, feeling safe that I won’t be or tolerate it. It ignores all reasonable thinking as leaving him alone. it ignores what’s real and actual. That’s why it’s called ‘imaginary’ because you’re the one who In short, pets are charming! They’re like little adorable fantasizes yourself out of this world and into the babies that we should care for, love and appreciate. inner depths of your imagination. Personally, I do I JUST LOVE MY BUZZ! it quite often. When I feel down or extremely depressed, my mind shifts inevitably to that special Sherihan Hassabo, 21 place in my head, the place I call ‘My World.’ Rejecting Reality within Literature: We’re not the only ones who escape reality now. It all started centuries ago when English poets www.teenstuffonline.com TeenStuff . February 2006
  • 10. and writers decided to hold a Some of you might not agree with as it’s only in your head. movement to defy all meaning and me but why do you have to first It’s okay to once in a while stray rationality. The beginning of the see something that’s not as good deep in our thoughts. But how deep 19th century is known as the age as yours in order to realize the is too deep? And is what we’re value of doing wrong, mentally? That’s a what you tough one to answer because it have? Try to depends really on how much time appreciate you spend stuck in daydreaming. your life Psychologically, it can be dangerous before it’s if we live in the ‘other world’ more too late. than the real one. Sometimes the And most brain can confuse the real with the importantly, false and that person - who suffers value from a personal/social disorder due yourself. to the extreme hardships of life - Just as any may be incapable of identifying superstar is which is which, as they lose touch special in with reality. your eyes, Life can push us to the edge you’re also sometimes and the more darkness Just as any superstar is special in your eyes, you’re also special and unique special and we see in real life, the more light of ‘Romanticism.’ They didn’t call unique; all you have to do is see it we create for ourselves in our own for romance and love as much as and believe in it. fantasy world. That’s why it seems they called for a radical change. It I think by now you’d agree with so appealing. Thankfully, I’m not was a revolutionary age which set me that we all daydream and I’m suffering from that disorder and I out to transform not only theory not telling you to stop dreaming. very well know what’s real. Yet it and practice of poetry and all art, If we stop dreaming, it may be the does seem more appealing. The but the very way we perceive the end of life and our future as we problem is once I’m there it can world. They rejected the rules that know it. In spite of their similarities, be a gruesome experience to try were set by previous ages and they there’s still a difference between to get out. But in the end, reality revolted against realism as they dreams and daydreams or has to knock on my door and drag believed more in imagination and fantasies. Dreams are when you me back there again whether I like the importance of senses and set realistic goals for yourself; goals it or not. And believe me I don’t, emotions over reason and intellect. that are more likely to be attained because when it hits you so hard Romantic fiction in general is in real life. While day dreaming is with one of its whims, it feels as if primarily the kind that offers a the act of engaging in fantasy while you just fell from a skyscraper and reader a chance to discard realism. awake; it can imply sometimes a unfortunately the landing isn’t that It deals with things that are yearning to fulfill something unreal, smooth. mysterious, strange or exciting hoping it’ll materialize. Thus, some Sooner or later, we’ll realize that other than the things that happen say it can be useless while it can the world we built is detaining our in real life. In short, fantasy be regarded the opposite as great actual world. And that’s the biggest writings show life not just as it is, things may come from it. For problem; we enjoy it so much that but as we like to imagine it would instance, it can be useful for jobs we forget about our own life and be. that require creativity and how to make that one – the real Later on, other authors decided to inventing, like engineering or one – better. There should be a follow this technique of rejecting designing. Then again, all jobs need limit to our fantasizing all day. reality, or at least displaying what a little creativity to be successful Again, I’m not saying to be more happens if we do so and just live because what this world really realistic, nor am I saying to be a life of pleasure without facing needs is a little imagination to spice more of a dreamer. Why are there real life, like in Aldous Huxley’s, A things up. Personally, I’m a person always extremes? Can’t there be Brave New World. who likes to let my imagination run something in the middle? Life is wild and it’s very useful in terms just too short to be living a fantasy Be Somebody… Not Somebody of writing. Because then I have the one, or living somebody else’s. We Else: pleasure of acquiring fruitful ideas. should live our own life, and aim How many times have some of us I’d never give up on my dreams or at making it better with our dreams honestly wanted to be somebody imagination because that would and imagination. “We do not dwell else? Whether it’s somebody totally affect my existence. A really on dreams and forget to live.” famous who is your idol or just the good friend of mine once said, perfect guy/girl next door? I bet a everything you imagine is real and If you have any comments relating lot would say that to this day, they I totally believe that. But to what to this issue, I would love to hear would like to be somebody else. extent is it true? Like I said this is them at: But why is that? I know that if very useful in different aspects of info@teenstuffonline.com everyone takes a good look at their life. However, it doesn’t concern lives, family, friends and the concept of the creation of your environment they’d realize that it’ll own world I was talking about. Esraa Hegazy, 18 never get any better than this. Because then it won’t become real February 2006 . TeenStuff www.teenstuffonline.com
  • 11. Flashback DO YOU REMEMBER FEBRUARY 1986? NO, YOU PROBABLY DO NOT. YOU WERE ALL CRAWLIN’, BOTTLE FEEDIN’, THUMB SUCKIN’ TODDLERS BACK THEN… The Central Security Forces are a special group in the way that, although they supposedly serve both government and people, they are despised, often hated by both parties. They are a group that are, literally, quarantined in vast camps far away from vibrant city centers and sociable venues, yet crucial for managing and forestalling the kind of sociable traffic unsettling to the powers that be. You have all probably seen them before; hundreds of wretched, sun-baked men perfectly lined up in fearsome black helmets and uniforms, carrying stinging batons and impenetrable shields, waiting for any manner of disorder for them to put down. Back in February 1986, when rumor hit the Central Security Forces that their term of service would extend from three to four years, they mutinied, breaking loose and tearing everything DO YOU that stood in their way. They set hotels and nightclubs on fire that were situated on the Pyramids road and were usually REMEMBER populated by tourists. They looted stores, set cars And neither do I really. I have on fire, vandalized civilian properties and spread only the flimsiest memory of their rage through out Cairo and beyond, before the the year1986. But here is how army was called upon to quell their wrath. The streets I think I was probably spending were turned, over night, into battlefields and a round- my days back then… busy lining up my army of LEGO and PlayMobil men or watching Nagwa Ibrahim (or whoever the-clock curfew prohibited civilians from departing their homes. Eventually, the riots came to an end, and if it served anything, it brought the public’s attention to the horrifying, dreadful, severely poor FEBRUARY 1986? living conditions and inhumane treatment that the was hosting that show) talking CSF was undergoing at the time. to a Cabbage Patch doll with an extremely irritating voice. Or maybe watching one of those genuinely-scary-yet- While millions of Americans were mourning the death of the seven supposedly-aimed-for-kids astronauts killed in the explosion pantomime shows on a of the aptly named, Challenger Saturday morning. I did not space shuttle, millions of Soviets even have to worry about were celebrating the launch of the school. In a nutshell, things Mir space station, as it soared up were pretty steady for a three- through the skies and up the year-old like me back in 1986. heavens, beginning its fifteen year Unfortunately, the same cannot journey of traveling through space; be said about everyone or one that would decidedly end in… well, humiliation. At a time when everything else, as things were the Cold War was being fought in shaping into something pretty space, this was proof of the Soviet ugly back then on one Union’s triumph over the United particular cold February. Make States. Ironically, the Soviet Union no mistake; it was no would collapse only five years later. Valentine’s. 12 . February 2006 . TeenStuff www.teenstuffonline.com
  • 12. February1986 Film Releases: 1986 Trends: Rocky 4 A Chorus Line You might have the faintest memory of your yet-to-get-married Kiss Of The Spiderwoman older brother’s or young uncle’s usually inaccessible bedroom Back To The Future being like this: Back in 1986, the ultimate in decoration for Year Of The Dragon any bachelor pad was a complete set of matching bed covers, curtains and wallpaper and if they were really rich (or spoilt by their parents) they could have had the carpet to match February1986 Music too. Linda Beard came up with the idea of bedroom decoration Charts: for men only and it took off beyond her wildest dreams - even the wallpaper which could make your eyes go funny if you stared at it long enough. The diagonal stripes were usually The Sun Always Shines On masculine colors like, gray, black, a different shade of gray TV by A-Ha and just a hint of red for danger. Only Love by Nana Mouskouri The Casio SK1 sampler keyboard was the kind of ‘thoughtful Walk Of Life by Dire Straits and educational’ toy your folks would have been spending Borderline by Madonna their money on to buy you, back in 1986. The Casio SKI Broken Wings by Mr Mister sampler keyboard was obviously designed as a toy rather than a serious musical instrument - and it showed. It was light, it was small and it was low on options; the memory February1986 Headlines: cleared when turned off which meant that you wouldn’t be able to keep your glorious musical creations. But it sampled well enough for you and your friends to have a jolly good time. Rumor has it that it is apparently still used by the likes Riots by Central Security Forces break out, following of Fatboy Slim and Blur; like it’s not so obvious. rumors that their term of service would be extended from three years to four. Army troops are deployed to restore order. According to official figures, 107 people are killed in the mutiny. Interior Minister, Ahmed Rushdi is dismissed and replaced by Zaki Badr. Funerals are held for the seven astronauts killed in January on the Space Shuttle, Challenger, which explodes shortly after take-off due to a programming error. The Soviet Union launches the Mir space station. Swedish Prime Minister, Olaf Palme is assassinated while strolling down a street in Stockholm, on his way home from the cinema. Comet Haley reaches its perihelion, the closest point to the Earth, during its second visit to the solar system in the 20th century. President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines, goes into exile in the USA after twenty years of rule. Corazon Aquino becomes the first Filipino woman President, first as in in- term President. Twenty-eight years of one-family rule ends in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation. And just when you thought that people couldn’t come up with After a wait of thirty-seven years, the United States Senate anything more foolish, big glasses, usually restricted to nerds and approves a treaty outlawing genocide. librarians, went big for no apparent reason. Oh, and so did boxer shorts! And on February 21st, Welsh soprano voice, turned pop starlet, Charlotte Church is born. Ahmed Rafaat www.teenstuffonline.com TeenStuff . February 2006 . 13
  • 13. Where Have THEY Gone?! A typical question that’s asked in each and every interview that everybody goes through is, “Who is your idol…who is your model that you follow in his footsteps?” And a typical answer is usually, “My role model is actually… can you give me some time please--err?” Finally after a pause, the interviewee says, ‘Dad’ while others go for their moms, brothers or even an older cousin or something like that. A father or a mother’s role can never be described nor can it be expressed in words. They introduce science there’s Einstein, Magdy Yaakoub, Farouk El us to life, love us more than we can imagine and Baz, and Ahmed Zowail-----can’t really stop! But strive to raise us correctly and in the most proper unfortunately I have to. See how uncountable they way ever. They’re worth being imitated and followed. are! On the other hand, we don’t find except a few The truth is that we truly love them deeply and of those role models of ours! Where have they because of that we feel like, “Oh my parents are gone?? If dead, then why don’t we find others and really great! They did all that for me and are still others in the same amount as they did ages ago?! doing more, asking for nothing in return except seeing their young offspring growing up and Well, our plan this month is to talk to our role achieving all the best!” models. Each one of us wrote an open letter to his/her role model in life. You’ll find some of us who However, the important thing that we actually want address specific persons and others address their to highlight is the absence of role models nowadays. imaginary role models and you’ll also find ones who Life was always enriched until the last recent decades didn’t actually choose only one idol. See for yourself with loads and loads of idols and role models. If and don’t forget to tell us who is your own role you happen to ask about them, I can never amass model! all of them because there’s really a large number of them of special personalities. Let me mention a Doaa Samy, 19 few: Head of Think Green Club Starting with religion, after the Prophet Mohammad When I started to think about who I should address and his blessed companions, Abu Bakr Al-Seddik my letter to, I found that there are several characters and Omar Ibn-Al-Khattab, who are extremely special, who affected me deeply and helped in the formation we can also find modern scientists in religion like, of my beliefs. So I'd be lying if I tell you that I Al Sheikh Al Sha’rawi. In politics, several role models consider only one of them as my role model. But include, Saad Zaghloul, Tal’aat Harb, Gamal Abd- I managed to narrow down my choice to three men El-Nasser, Nelson Mandela, and Che Guevara. In who I believe, being who they are and what they Renaissance, philosophy and leadership we of course stand for, had a profound influence on the person have Ghandi. In economics, there’s Tal’aat Harb. I am today. Then concerning arts and literature, we have Abbas Al-Akkad, Taha Hussein and Naguib Mahfouz. In 16 . February 2006 . TeenStuff www.teenstuffonline.com
  • 14. Dear Ghandi, owe my first poem to you and also my infatuation Your tolerance and pacifism impressed me. Your with literature. deep love for your country gave another meaning to patriotism. The way you fought for your people As for the rest of the influential writers, you all hold and bared so much suffering in order to reach what a special place in my heart because you’ve guided you want without losing hope, is worthy of most me to my path. You keep reminding me each day respect. not to forget how much I love writing and its wonders. And the passion I feel while pouring my heart and Dear Guevara, soul on paper. Because of you, I realize the power I deeply admire your rebel spirit and pure devotion of words and their effects. to your beliefs. I hope that one day I’ll lead a road of my own as Dear Shakespeare, you did. I wish to inspire and to leave my mark on I’ve always been inspired by your creativity and the each one who reads what I’ve got to say. way you understood human nature. Esraa Hegazy, 18 I hope that one day I’ll lead a road of my own as you did. I wish to inspire and to leave my mark on each one who reads what I’ve got to say I can go on and on and still I wouldn't be able to Dear Role Model, convey how much I look up to these men. But enough about me now, it's your turn to find out I wish you were there for real. I've been searching who your role model is and why? for you for years and years. And for years to come I'll still be searching. Through my short, yet long, Dina Whaba, 19 journey of searching; short in time yet long in Dear Writers, feeling, I've been lucky to integrate you through millions of people and I still will. I thank every single writer I have read that has If there’s another virtue or other ethics that I don’t influenced me greatly with their astounding words. know in this life, I'll be adding this to you, until I For each writer who made me laugh or cry; for each perfect you and look up to you. So I guess I should one who amazes me always with their off the wall say: To every true respectful person, to every writing technique, I thank you for your creativity devoted teacher, to every caring mom, to every and inspiration that lights up my life. It’s necessary conscientious writer, to every scholar, to every artist for me to thank first and foremost William who highly appreciates his talent, to every kind Shakespeare. I thank you for being a literary genius person, to every hard worker…thanks for being the who has left profound and inspiring work of dramatic inspiration for the past years and for years to come. plays depicting human experiences and your monumental sonnets that are brilliantly written. I Radwa Nour, 20 www.teenstuffonline.com TeenStuff . February 2006 . 17
  • 15. I consider myself a hardworking energetic person Dear anonymous, who also wants to excel and prove myself. Most of all, I have that feeling of change…I want to make a I decided not to give you a name to keep your change. I wish to help people, who aren’t as fortunate uniqueness among humans. You were always a as I am, by one way or another. Maybe that will mystery for me, as I never knew who would ever fit happen by spreading awareness through my writings into such a place in my life besides you! and my programs that I insist on having, hopefully, in the future. It may also happen by going to people I met thousands of people during my life, learned to their places myself, talking to them about their different lessons from each and everyone I met, but problems or even holding workshops that can enable nothing compares to what you’re expected to teach me. You’re my role model whom I should clone in most of Blessed with the power of words, my actions, follow your footsteps and the ability to convince, and to take you as an image in front of my socialize easily eyes for the person I wish to be one day. them take a step forward towards a higher status. Such a task is an honor for me, as you are the only perfect person that I ever knew. You have it all; I believe that achieving my own goals and targets you’re talented, well-educated and a great leader, are always connected to others’ goals and aims. I’m which I admire you for You’ve been blessed with the . not living alone on earth. I’m neither the only person power of words, the ability to convince, and to socialize breathing oxygen nor can I resist gravity! I may have easily. You know something about everything; you a gift that when combined with my brains and can speak about any topic and have your own view. thoughts, results in a fruitful outcome. Only then can It’s always an experience in itself when talking to I help myself and proudly feel progress and deep you. I can never get enough from having a dive character development. Yet, it’s never enough to with you in the pool of thoughts, as you get me think only about myself. Actually, it’s even nicer and looking from a different perception to the same more pleasing to feel like helping other people and thought every time. You know how to inspire people, totally changing their lives! affect them and how to lead others. You’re the dream that I dream of turning true one day because This is MY DREAM Oprah! Sound familiar? I know it unfortunately you don’t exist! does because I found you did all that. I found that you achieved all what I want to achieve. I don’t know Yasser Abbas, 19 how to say it, but I have true feelings of respect for you. You deserve the best! Wait one day to hear about Doaa Samy that followed in your footsteps! Dearest Oprah Winfrey, Best Regards, After sending you all my greetings and warm wishes, Doaa Samy I just thought of sharing what I have in mind here with everybody including you of course. P.S. Oprah Winfrey was named one of the 100 Most Knowing someone like you Oprah, has added a lot to Influential People of the 20th Century by Time me. The way you started your career was and still is Magazine, and in 1998 received a Lifetime Achievement extremely magnetic. You strived a lot to achieve your Award from the National Academy of Television Arts dream. You never gave up and always fought to hit and Sciences. your target, to be what you are now! 18 . February 2006 . TeenStuff www.teenstuffonline.com
  • 16. What If…we never Drop by drop those particles embrace my cheeks. To my surprise, it all happened without ordering my pair of lids to cover up any of my iris! ‘Wet’ can actually describe the status of my eyelashes. Screams of mine aren’t even heard. My lips are stretched and slightly opened but A loud utterance; often in protest or opposition, a loud utterance of my ears hear emotion especially when unable to articulate, can be summed up in only one word ‘cry.’ Crying is an extremely healthy process where you can nothing except inner get out all of your suppressed passion of the outer world. Some people prevent themselves from crying in front of any body; thinking that explosions! I had crying is evidence of weakness. I’m with you that sometimes it’s pretty private while on the other hand, I’m not for hiding our feelings. That’s never imagined I highly dangerous! can do that one day; such an image of The worst thing you can ever watery circles going do is to cry silently down my face without even You know what? I’m telling you it’s dangerous to hide your feelings yet I always try to keep my feelings inside until I reach a place where I’m blinking once, have all alone! Yeah! I do that; maybe because personality tests consider me an introverted character that recharges power from within. Well, I never crossed my disagree with that. One may have times when he/she feels like sitting with oneself and meeting nobody at all. But that doesn’t mean that I mind. don’t like to see people when I’m depressed or out of mood. Your companions always help change your mood. They actually get you out of your uninterrupted condition that keeps you indulged in the same connected circle of thoughts and sentiments. Let me talk about the worst act related to the crying process. If you 22 . February 2006 . TeenStuff www.teenstuffonline.com
  • 17. look back at the first lines when never. I was describing how crying can take place without either blinking Hope I have helped or sobbing, you’ll already have a change some of the drawn image in mind about what wrong conceptions I want to say. about crying and made The worst thing you can ever do you somehow aware of is to cry silently! To keep your the benefits. Yet, you’ve sounds inside and prevent them got to take care that from waving through the there is a small surrounding outer atmosphere is difference between more like suffocating. Imagine expressing oneself and that you’re about to drown and being redundant in one suddenly find a floating piece of way or another. I call for wood. When you quickly try to crying just when truly reach it and get over, you find it needed to aid you to broken and so heavy that it has take a step forward, enough power to pull you nonetheless, continuous downward! That’s exactly the case. crying for trivial reasons is disliked and will make Why don’t we analyze? people think poorly about you. Why does anyone cry? It’s a reflexive action similar to your Finally, I’d like to change cough when any particle - other your mood now by than air - disrupts your esophagus letting you sing! Yes, while eating or drinking. Crying you must sing for me is a mixture of inner sentiments “HaPpy BirthdaY!” I may due to certain outer conditions be celebrating now if it’s that create pressure and lead to February 1st! Grab the a normal transformation from a chance and sing with calm state to a somewhat stormy me…ooops! -- I mean one. It’s one of man’s basic rights for me :) And let me to express! discover how my 19th If I can’t cry, I would die, I always year will look like. think. They sometimes say sobbing is not the solution! No, I disagree. It may not help solve the problem but it’ll sure help the person get - better to solve the problem! When I face a shock, I must internally react first before starting to think Love to cry to get it all out how to solve it. Involuntary I find myself down; resultantly, and renew your mood. disappointment may be a proper inner feeling that will push me to express that physically as well and Crying is a blessing that’s why tears are there. Tears are there to flow and If you are skating and fall down flow…streaming down your eyes and break your arm, I tell you that and cheeks carrying the excess you WILL definitely cry - based on charge out of your body. a personal experience! Write me back, tell me what you - If you haven’t ever tasted your think and if you have any special They say these quotes about tears you wouldn’t ever know the experience, you’re more than crying: meaning of laughter! welcome to share it. Send your - The sorrow which has no vent in mail to: info@teenstuffonline.com tears may make other organs Enjoy all of your reactions; freely It’s important to do that if you weep. Henry Maudsley express your sadness and agony. want to contribute. Thanks! - Let your tears come. Let them Discover how magical it is to feel water your soul. Eileen Mayhew satisfaction and strong inner will - Laughter and tears are both that can enable you change a responses to frustration and situation 180 degrees. Fall down exhaustion. I myself prefer to and get up, then fall down once Wishing you a laugh, since there is less cleaning more and get up again even up to do afterward. Kurt Vonnegut - The soul would have no rainbow stronger than before. No problem with that. We’re here to learn and very Happy had the eyes no tears. John Vance Cheney benefit; to laugh sometimes and cry at other times but most Valentine’s Day important is each one’s self I say this about crying: expression. Let me repeat: Don’t Doaa Samy, 19 - A baby’s first sound uttered is a deprive yourself from your basic cry! rights. Love to cry to get it all out - When you lose a very special and renew your mood. Crying is person, you cry deeply. a blessing! Evaluate it now or www.teenstuffonline.com TeenStuff . February 2006 . 23
  • 18. Aregica "When imagination becomes the only fact" Welcome to Aregica News Room Channel! It's not Transmission 172' Middle East through Teen Stuff surprising to Sat! hear that 500 For those who don't know Aregica, it’s a country million pounds anywhere on some place on Mars. Whether, you’re are spent an Aregicanian citizen or not, believe me; you'll get every year on excited with Aregica News Room. private Aregica News Room brings the event right to your lessons. These place. private lessons Aregica News Room discusses hot issues. aren’t Aregica News Room is your eyes to the Aregicanian world. restricted only to school Just free your imagination and live the moment with students but Aregica News Room! also university students. This Good evening, everyone! Happy Valentine to all of you! situation puts Let's start with the headlines: the Aregican 1) The New BAL in the United States Of Aregica government in 2) Private Lessons - Private Lessons Forever a real dilemma 3) The New Electronic Government in how to stop those teachers Detailed News: It's not surprising to hear that 500 million pounds 1) The New BAL in the United are spent every year on States Of Aregica private lessons In an outstanding move, the United States of Aregica has established a who are used to earning 210,000 Aregican pounds a new organization month and convince them to be satisfied with 1000 called BAL. BAL only. Frankly speaking, the Aregican family is the only stands for Blue Ant victim!! Lovers and the organization aims at providing the appropriate 3) The New Electronic environment for the blue ants to prevent Government their extinction. BAL is saving no effort to After establishing the new electronic government, ban all home predictions have arisen on how this government would insecticides due to their great harm to blue ants. Blue react towards many internal affairs that Aregicans care ants don’t die by ordinary home insecticides but their about. Aregicans want to know the correct figures and respiratory system may be affected leading to severe not the fake ones they’re used to. Aregicans are in pneumonia. bad need to trust the government’s words just for Finally, Aregica News Room crew finds it meaningless once. They’re fed up with the usual slogans that are to conclude that blue ants are much more worthy than rarely applied. Aregicans would never like to repeatedly those innocent children, who are killed everyday in see the violence spreading that way it happened during Calestine and Biraq by the bullets of the United States the Aregican Parliament elections. Aregican youth are of Aregica soldiers. Those children who've done nothing dreaming to have job opportunities when they graduate. except being born humans and not blue ants!! Aregicans want to see real justice that never differentiates between this and that. They want to feel secure in their Motherland. Aregicans would like to 2) Private Lessons… Private omit the word street children from their dictionary. Lessons Forever Finally, Aregicans want to be proud that they’re Aregicans! Last week, the well-known private lessons teacher raised his fees up to one hundred Aregican pounds per That’s the end of our episode. Happy Valentine again lesson for each of the seventy-five students in every and we’re sorry to have this serious and dramatic news group. It was all because he wanted to spend the taking up the whole space because we, simply, had no summer months, this year, in Hawaii and not in Spain other choice than to state the facts! as usual. With a very short and easy calculation, one can get that this poor teacher earns about 210,000 See you next episode, Aregican pounds per month, which will help him, travel to Hawaii this year. Noha Samara, 21 Illustration by: Adnan Hesham 24 . February 2006 . TeenStuff www.teenstuffonline.com
  • 19. ARE you always drawing during long...just relax and scribble! phone calls, while studying, thinking? 1- Sketch a face... Discover the meaning of your 2- Draw a tree scribbles and what they reveal 3- Sketch a heart. 4- Draw a house; big, small, cottage about the inner you... or castle. Whatever you want! You will be asked to draw different And the secrets of your your HEART out! things.....Don't worry, it won't take symbols will be revealed Reveals a lot about Trees in general tell Always signifies home and It is the core of your your real self a lot about your life family, so check out your love and and your destiny. attitude towards them... relationships... Here's what your tree Happy, smiling face: Large house says about you... You are fun You love your Rounded and family, besides Rounded at the base: to be around, clouded- which respecting You are so loyal and very shaped: them; that is passionate! reveals the You are fact that you why you are sociable and have lots of kind. It also the center of friends! signifies that attention at Great! you are feeling home. Profile: on the top right You are very Bare now! ambitious; branches: Tall, thin house: You do not Indicating a family Pointed base: you are Your always express quarrel or relative yourself much, rivalry, don't worry it relationships are looking to the somehow future! but you are will blow over soon! ambitious and perfect, but you Long pretty are a bit jealous eyelashes: successful too! Lots of windows: sometimes so You are into Covered in You are take care! fashion and like leaves and lucky to to be praised a fruits: have lot and waited You are an such a upon, too! open-minded big and and happy warm Big lips: person who family, You are loves having but you are sometimes a bit nosy Arrow through heart: sensual and loads of fun! and like to know everything that You are a daydreamer, always romantic, is going on. dreaming to fall in love and and Christmas soon you will! everyone tree: loves you! You are Lucky you! energetic and Broken heart: one of your You are very much kind! affected by a break-up or your Long hair: relationship is not You are Palm tree: stable. Time to get creative and You want to out! spontaneous! House surrounded by a fence: Keep it! unleash your adventurous Your home is a secure and safe spirit and escape place for you; that is why you love spending quality time with responsibilities! your family. Overlapping Short or spiky Messy or shaded hearts: hair: tree: You are worried You are living You love a healthy and a yourself; about something nowadays or may House and a happy obviously you shining sun: relationship. like to be the be you lack confidence in You have a perfect Lucky you! center of happy family. something, but don't attention! worry it won't take Lucky you! long! Suss Your Symbols - Arrows: you have got a focused mind! - Numbers: you are very organized! - Crosses: you are wise and spiritual, but you need some - Animals: you are happy, kind and romantic! guidance too! - Balloons: you have got a loving personality and very - Stars: you have high aspirations! enthusiastic! - Circles: you are romantic and sincere! - Clouds: clear fluffy clouds; show that you are a daydreamer, - Squares: you are practical and reliable! but dark ones show that you are worried about something! - Spirals: you are stressed and you need to rest! - Crown: you will do anything to be famous and rich! - Infinity: someone loves you and thinks about you all the - Ring: you are seeking for a long-lasting, secure relationship! time! - Sun: you will live life to the full!
  • 20. PUMA® Launches Statement Product at African Cup of Nations_ Eight Teams To Debut New 2006 v1.06 Concept In Egypt PUMA® unveiled its new 2006 seams for improved comfort. The new famous player Samuel Eto’s answered, “i football statement concept, specially developed woven fabric keeps believe all players like to get on to the the weight down to a minimum whilst pitch feeling as light as possible, as long the v1.06, at the 2006 African providing superior moisture management as they are not naked. This boot brings Cup of Nations_ in Egypt in to keep the player dry and comfortable. you that possibility, to take the pitch January. As proud supplier to feeling light but wearing a football boot. eight elite teams competing v1.06 Boot The design is very nice, a few details have been changed during the test periods but in the tournament (Angola, Created with one objective in mind, to I believe that they are now on the list of Cameroon, Egypt, Ghana, get players to the ball faster, the v1.06 everyone that wants to play a game of Ivory Coast, Senegal, Togo boot was designed create split second football.” and Tunisia) the event sat the advantages. The lightest PUMA boot on As for his opinion of the Kt he said “The the market, the upper is constructed from fabric is good … things have pace for 2006 with the debut an extremely thin and specially developed changed a ot. This I much of the new v1.06 playing kit. synthetic ConTec textile material for lighter for a player and I see increased speed, stamina, leather like a lot of potential. Let’s just Designed to get the players to the ball touch and close control. The fine-tuned see if it brings luck to those faster, the state of the art v1.06 playing PUMA AptoLast and asymmetrical Lace wearing it.” kit introduces a revolutionary lightweight Wrap system allow the boot to mould to proposition with an out and out focus on the natural shape of the foot for optimal On 19th of January aerodynamic advantages and comfort. energy preservation. Puma announced a The v1.06 shirt utilizes a brand new tear charitable partnership resistant fabric developed in collaboration with United For Africa with Manchester Metropolitan University. v1.06 Ball leading up to the The resulting kit, federation badges World of football included, weighs a mere 100g while Introducing a Championships in providing optimal moisture wicking and new-patented June. The evaporation demanded by top flight panel concept based on a organization will players. directly benefit from verified the sales and In an effort to honor and stress the geometrical proceeds of special individuality of each team, PUMA has approach, this projects launched designed a new graphic treatment unique construction in PUMA concept to each country. The jersey features a secures the roundest, most stores and tonal print of a visual icon representative special retail of the personality and heritage of each technically formats this football team. advanced ball on summer. the market. Continuing with PUMA’s patented dimple technology, the new v1.06 Playing Shirt v1.06 ball delivers more speed, further distance and improved control. Sticking to the overall design Samuel Eto concept of getting v1.06 Goalkeeper Glove you to the ball faster, the v1.06 In tune with the concept design brief, the shirt was new v1.06 goalkeeper glove sets out to engineered and provide top class goalkeepers with a crafted with lightweight glove proposition further aerodynamics in enhancing the proven performance mind. The most features of PUMA gloves. lightweight shirt on the market, the When asked upon his impression of the v1.06 game shirt is fully welded with no new PUMA [V1.06] and the design the February 2006 . TeenStuff www.teenstuffonline.com
  • 21. Sami Youssef and New Release at Virgin On February 18, 2006, closer to people Virgin Megastore because there are hosted, for distribution, specialized people for the signing of Sami preaching who know Youssef's new album, their job well and he is My Ummah not one of them. Youssef arrived at Virgin "Preaching might not Megastores at 6:30 pm serve its right purpose and was received with if was forced upon applauding and people especially cheering fans while the through art and in attendees presented singing," he explained. him lovely bouquets of roses. After answering all the Youssef, first, started by questions, Sami Youssef singing some of his new stared signing posters album's songs and then and CDs for the answered questions attendees and as he from his fans. was leaving, his fans wouldn't let him go and Sami Youssef stated insisted that he stay. He clearly that he is not a apologized for not being religious preacher and able to speak Arabic and that he doesn't believe promised his fans that preaching is what will this will change soon bring him because he is working on that to be able to communicate with his fans. He said that loves Egyptians because he can sense that they are good by nature and sociable. The event ended with Youssef singing his new song, Free, which talks about Hejab and he promised his fans a concert soon in Alexandria's Library. Blo od donation league is a collaboration between Egyptian national blood transfusion services & www.egypt2006.com web site as a side activity for the African Nations Cup. Its principle simply is to make use of the competitive spirit between different football clubs' fans & direct it to be transformed into positive charitable attitude, especially in blood donation with our slogan to be “IN THAT WE SHOULD COMPETE” Every one can participate in this league through registering him/her self as regular blood donor in a web base registration form on www.egypt2006.com & to register the name of his favorite club & the blood center will call him/her to inform him/her about the nearest blood center to donate blood. At the end of the league, the winning club will be the one chosen by the largest No. of blood donors. On Thursdays, as well, there will be a fixed blood campaign in Ramsis square in front of the Main Railway Station & another mobile blood campaign rotating in different clubs weekly. www.teenstuffonline.com
  • 22. On January 19, 2006, Seeds of Peace Delegation Leaders of Egypt, and AMIDEAST Egypt, held an Award Ceremony for the Seeds of Peace Art Competition. Teen Stuff staff was very pleased to be there to share in this inspiring event. The competition was held during International Education Week in Cairo and Alexandria on November 12 and 18, respectively. The competition invited students aged 12 to 16 years to create drawings and paintings that encourage peace, tolerance, empathy, acceptance, patience, and co- existence. Both Seeds of Peace and AMIDEAST are organizations dedicated to increasing cultural understanding within and between communities around the world. This contest is an outgrowth of their work. Seventeen schools were represented by 75 participating students. A committee of four professional artists judged the artwork and selected the best twelve paintings and then short listed them to identify the top five winning works. There were seven winners in Cairo and five in Alexandria. Seeds of Peace published a 2006 calendar to highlight the best twelve creations, which were identified with the names of the young artists under each month’s image. This calendar was distributed to all participating schools, all Seeds of Peace Delegation Leaders around the world, AMIDEAST, and the artists who judged the student competition. Congratulations and thanks to everyone who supported this event! 30 . February 2006 . TeenStuff
  • 23. Campaign Awards 2005 Campaign Middle East has announced for the first time ever the short list for the Campaign Awards 2005. The awards is a huge event for the region’s advertising and media agencies. With awards given out for 13 different categories, meaning the ultimately creative minds in the region all in one event, taking place on January 31st, 2006 in Dubai. With the overwhelming amount of more than 600 entries received for the awards from around the region, the first round of judging took place in Dubai two weeks ago, followed by yet an extra round to create a shortlist for each category. 20 judges from top advertising, media and PR agencies under the chairmanship of Unilever Middle East boss Jan Zijderveld gathered at the Fairmont Hotel in Dubai to debate the entries. The agencies and campaigns that were considered exceptional in the region were short listed were announced on December 25th. Where does Egypt fit in the region’s? , you might ask. Well, Egypt has scooped up 3 entries on the short- lists in three different categories. And the Short-lists are (drum roll please………) *Media Agency of the year: Zenith Cairo Initiative Mindshare MENA OMD UM7 *Advertising Agency of the Year Face to Face JWT Lowe Partnership Saatchi & Saatchi Tonic *Media Plan of the year Virgin Megastore, Zenith Cairo Barbican, Initiative Emirates Today, OMD Heineken, MindShare Rani Float, initiative Tiida, OMD Vodafone Kuwait, MindShare *TV Campaign of the year Beirut Marathon, Leo Burnett Beirut Crest Lighthouse, Saatchi & Saatchi Domino’s , JWT Exotica Flower Shop, Leo Burnett Beirut Ford Mustang, Drive, Team Y & R Mobinil Mercedes, Leo Burnett Cairo Twix, TBWARaad Congratulations to Zenith & Leo Burnett for voicing out Egypt’s exceptional work among the region’s Advertising & media fields. www.teenstuffonline.com
  • 24. Syria at a Crossroad: Will it be another Iraq? “The Assassination of a Legend” Date: February 14th 2005. himself) saying: "I have... submitted the resignation Place: North of Beirut of the government and I have declared that I will not Scene: ASSASINATION! be a candidate to head the (next) government." Hariri's contributions were numerous. Among the It is a quiet spring day in Lebanon. A convey of a few most notable is the fact that he educated 30,000 cars is moving along the beachfront. Its appearance Lebanese students inside and outside of Lebanon and indicates that it contains some important people. The spent millions of dollars of his own personal money camera takes you then for an inside look of the to redefine the face of social structure in Lebanon. motorcade to see some He donated a great deal of money to charity and famous figures like Rafik invested in Lebanon when few others were willing to Hariri (the former Lebanese risk doing so. He worked towards unity of the different Prime Minister) and Bassel religious and ethnic groups and rebuilding the nation. Fleihan, the former Minister On June 22, 2005, Beirut International Airport was of Economy and renamed Rafik Hariri International Airport in honor Commerce. Among others, of Rafik Hariri, all of which proves that Hariri was an they were both members extraordinary man. However, unlike many other of the Lebanese parliament important figures who were assassinated, the whole and were heading home world was concerned with this man’s death. after an important session at the parliament. “The White House condemned the attack and said The scene suddenly is disrupted when explosives Lebanon should be allowed to pursue its political equivalent to 1,000 kg. of TNT are future free from violence... detonated creating a devastating blast and free from Syrian causing a huge rift in the ground, occupation.” killing several people including Rafik Spokesman Scott McClellan Hariri, and injuring dozens of others. said he was not trying to “link Syria with the bombing,” Flashback now with the director as adding that “Washington did he takes us back several years ago not know who was to tell us who was Rafik Hariri, and responsible,” Reuters News why was he be assassinated in such Agency reported. a way. Sorry Mr. McClellan, if you Rafik Bahaa Al Din Al Hariri was a claim that Washington didn’t Lebanese Muslim, self-made billionaire know who was responsible and business tycoon. He left Lebanon and that you are not trying in 1965 to work in Saudi Arabia for to link Syria with the a construction company, and there, bombings then why would you he accumulated vast amounts of wealth in a short period of time and emerged as a powerful construction tycoon. In 1978 mention Syria in the first Hariri was made a citizen of Saudi Arabia by the Saudi place? And why would you royal family as a reward for the high quality of his link the Syrian presence in entrepreneurial services, and he became the Kingdom's Lebanon to violence? representative in Lebanon. He then went on to become Saudi Arabia's leading entrepreneur. This episode was much more In 1982, he donated $12 million to Lebanese victims interesting than the last one of Israel's invasions and helped restore Beirut's streets because after the with his own money. He also used his personal wealth assassination everything to finance the Taif Accord in 1989, which put an end changed. A revolution to the civil war. aroused in Lebanon, which was then called the Cedar In 1993 he founded the television station, Future TV Revolution. Syria was being pressured to pull out of in Beirut and purchased stakes in several Lebanese Lebanon (as if it was proved that Syria was the reason newspapers. He founded his own newspaper, Al- behind the assassination) and the crisis escalated to Mustaqbal (The Future). He was also the biggest a terrifying level, putting Syria in a corner. And the shareholder in Solidere, the joint-stock company that whole world watched and waited for the Syrian and almost single handedly transformed and revived Lebanese reaction. central Beirut following the Lebanese civil war. Hariri served as Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1992 What was the reaction? Who was the new figure that to 1998, then again from left Syria shaking whenever they hear his name? 2000 until October, 20, What is the Cedar Revolution? 2004. Hariri resigned both You know the rules; if you know the answers, send times because he was me back at: against the extension of If you do not, then wait for the next episode in March President Lahoud’s term as and try to read some newspapers during the meantime! pressured by the Syrian government (as Lahoud is Yasser Abbas, 19 considered a pro-Syrian 32 . February 2006 . TeenStuff www.teenstuffonline.com
  • 25. Women in Afghanistan: Who is Responsible for their Oppression? still being abused, harassed, and threatened all over Afghanistan, often by government troops and officials," as stated by Zama Coursen-Neff, co- author of the Human Rights Watch report and counsel to the Children's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch. "The U.S.-led coalition justified the war against the Taliban in part by promising that it would liberate Afghanistan's women and girls," said Coursen-Neff. “In fact, by supporting repressive warlords, the international community has broken that promise and forsaken women's rights." The Afghan Human Rights Commission, which is mandated to monitor human rights conditions and investigate abuse, is not receiving sufficient political and moral support from the international community, including the U.N., to effectively investigate or monitor human rights conditions. Over the last twelve months, Human Rights Watch has itself documented serious human Decades of civil war are more than rights abuse against women and girls enough to crush any country which by warlords all over Afghanistan. is exactly what happened to Afghanistan. The costs of this civil Outside of Kabul, women and girls war are enormous; more than one have faced serious circumstances million civilians are believed to have that threaten their physical safety, been killed and countless others including sexual violence. In the injured. The catastrophic North, three rival forces have abused consequences of this war have Pashtun civilians, including raping weighed heavily on the women of entire households and girls as young Afghanistan. as fourteen. Will the international community continue to sit idle as Naturally, men and women have human rights are clearly being suffered the hardships of that war: Zabul, Logar, and Wardak. Local perpetrated against women in Indiscriminate bombings and shelling forces have done little to prevent of residential areas, destruction and these attacks. displacement and being the victims of deliberate and arbitrary killings Many Afghans expected the and "disappearances." But in addition international community to stand up to all that, women in Afghanistan to warlords but the international have suffered from gender specific community's inability to fulfill its human rights abuse, such as rape commitments toward women in and sexual assaults, forced marriages Afghanistan threatens the promise and prostitution. Women in of the post-Taliban era. Now many Afghanistan were often treated as are angry and disillusioned with the the spoils of war. United States, the United Nations and the international presence in Afghanistan? It appears that armed guards were Afghanistan generally. ignored by leaders, as a method of And why is not the intervention of threatening vanquished populations "Many people outside the country the United States obvious in the case and of rewarding soldiers. Many believe that Afghan women and girls of the Afghan women? Who is to women were raped by armed guards have had their rights restored. It is blame and who is RESPONSIBLE for during the period from 1992 - 1995. just not true. “Women and girls are the dreadful situation of the Afghan Many Afghan women reportedly women; The Taliban regime, the committed suicide to avoid such a United Nations, the United States or fate. the international community as a whole? For your own knowledge, Neither Afghan men nor women are while we are sitting here debating, allowed to take part in the decision numerous young women and girls making process but this oppression are being beaten, raped and killed. is falling doubly hard on women, who And we still have not figured out who also face the general political is responsible! oppression of women. Schools for girls have been attacked with rockets or set on fire in at least five Dina Wahba, 19 provinces: Kandahar, Sar-e Pol, www.teenstuffonline.com TeenStuff . February 2006 . 33
  • 26. 8) Eat with a teaspoon and chew slowly. That makes you feel full quickly. 9) Don’t eat after 8 p.m. 10) Don’t eat between meals. 1) Deal with yourself as if you’re a normal body-sized person but who must follow a Now, for a few other tips you can follow. few steps to look better. How can your clothes help you reduce your shape? ‘Plus-size,’ ‘full- 2) You have to go on a balanced diet which bodied,’ ‘heavy,’ supplies your body with vitamins and energy. (Don’t stop eating or only eat an - Try to wear dark colored clothes like black, blue-black, brown or dark brown. They’ll ‘large,’ ‘full- apple as a meal, for example, because you’ll gain the weight you lost as soon as make you look thinner. figured.’ These are you start eating normally again). - Don’t wear clothes with folds. They’ll make you look larger! just a few of the 3) Practice, daily, any kind of sport you terms used to want for 20 minutes. It’ll help you to lose weight and to re-shape your body. - It isn’t preferable to wear flowered clothes. Plain, solid clothes are better for you. describe those of - Pockets, pockets! All teenagers like us who wear sizes pockets but what you don’t realize is that pockets make you look larger. of double digits. - If you like jeans with back pockets, try But now it’s time to to wear jeans with large back pockets. throw away all of WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? TRY THESE these terms by TIPS NOW!! facing our Hadiel problems without being shy because overweight is one of the biggest teenagers’ 4) Drink at least three cups of green tea a day. It’ll help you to lose weight faster. problems and we must face it. 5) You can take green tea as tablets. It’s natural and 100 percent safe. SO LET’S FOLLOW 6) Drink at least two glasses of water before THESE STEPS: each meal. It’ll make you feel full quickly. 7) You needn’t eat from a large plate. A small bowl is enough. (DON’T REFILL IT!) 36 . January 2006 . TeenStuff www.teenstuffonline.com