Posts Tagged ‘Karim Badra’
“When you think about yourself as being Creative. You can create a new future…”? Is that enough?
Posted on: August 7, 2018
“When you think about yourself as being creative. You can create a new future. That’s being positive in life.” – David Kelley
I think everyone is creative. Some know that fact more than others. Who disagrees?
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You get creative by just getting engaged in an activity that dislodge your hidden passion
Karim A. Badra: I think its a virtue like anything else, and its a result of certain character traits. Some people are born and raised into having strong verbal skills, others mathematics, and others may have a natural tendency to be efficient and productive. As hard a…See More
Sherif Maktabi: being creative is simple. There are many definitions, here is one that I like: being able to imagine possiblites that have value. I think evolutionary, creativity is what allowed the human race to become the dominant species. So elementary, cr…See MoreRamsey Saleem Nassar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VShmtsLhkQg
”Telling people how to be creative is easy – being creative is difficult.” John…See MoreSherif Maktabi ok i’m watching this but i dont know if ill be able to finish the full 36min. i need to leave soonSherif Maktabi “Creativity is not a talent. It’s a way of operating” – from the video “creativity is not related to IQ”. etc.
Adonis Bouhatab operational activities extend possibilities to consider, if you are ready to listen and reflect on every alternative. The more focused time you invest on resolving a problem the more creative you become: It is a matter of training your mind to open up to people’s creative intelligence…Khaled Tayara yes Sherif Maktabi , you are right . Creativity is a process , having new ideas is a talent but how to get out it is a process. Unfortunatly for example in the media and advertising in Lebanon we thing that to be creative , you just need talent ! sorry you need analytical skills and process minded to show and get out this creativity ! I am suffering explaining this to the team in my company
Homeless by the American Univ. of Beirut: Ali, Georgette…on Bliss Street
Three posts on my FB today, talking of the homeless living close to the students of the American Univ. of Beirut (AUB) on Bliss Street.
Reine Azzi posted this Jan. 8, 2013 under “Humans of Beirut. Save Georgette of Bliss Street.”
“After yesterday’s heartbreaking news of the death of Ali of Bliss Street, hundreds of concerned facebookers banded together to form an initiative to help the homeless in Lebanon.
Statuses have been posted, blogs written, and tweets announced, in memory of Ali Abdullah, and all in hopes that he did not die in vain.
Many peopleand students are asking about others like-Ali—”What about the homeless woman on Bliss St.? What will happen to her?”
Georgette has no means to afford basic necessities. And the humanitarians of Lebanon have taken action, creating campaigns to spread awareness and assist the needy in anyway possible.
Fighting Homelessness in Beirut, a FB group formed by Michel Khoury, was created only today—and already has over 700 members.
Contribute to a Warm Lebanon, a fundraiser at Nasawiya Café in Mar Mikhael, also pledges to donate clothes, food, sleeping bags and anything else that might warm up people who can’t afford basic neccesities.
Food Blessed, another initiative aiming to feed the hungry, also revolves around a humanitarian cause that including helping the homeless.
So if you want to help out and don’t know how, check out the three links above and give money, food, clothes—even time. It’s really the least we can do.
A picture of Ali, described as Hamra Street’s Bukowski.
Michelle Ghoussoub wrote:
In light of what has happened, I feel like I should say more. This man was truly a legend, and one of the pillars of what made Hamra so special.
For generations, he was the subject of much intrigue to the students of the American University of Beirut. Some said he was a physics professor who was so smart, he’d gone mad.
Others added that he could speak 6 languages. Everyone had their own quirky story.
What always intrigued me is that he never begged or asked anyone for anything. Good people just seemed to give him a helping hand from time to time.
Last night though, while I was sitting comfortably in my home wondering why cold air was seeping through small cracks in my window, the storm left him dead in a Hamra that he helped give life to.
Rest in peace, Ali. If any of you have any stories to share, please do.”
Sherif Maktabi posted:
“Yesterday a man called Ali, died in the street where I grew up. A street where hundreds of thousands of Lebanese, and I, walked to school
Please have the patience to read through, a person’s life depends on this.
Students of AUB and International College, I am talking to you.
Nobody knows Ali’s story. He was homeless, and lived on Bliss street in Beirut for years. I remember him since I was a kid.
Some say he was mentally disturbed. But he never harmed anyone.
He survived on donations from the restaurants and shops of bliss.
He used to get, coffee, a sandwitch and a cigarette everyday. As for us the students, we never did anything.
He is dead. But many are still alive and shape the soul of Beirut.
And they don’t have people to help them.
This is why I want to tell you the story of Georgette.
Everyday, Georgette brings her chair and sits in front of Books and Pens to sells chewing gum. She can’t walk and can’t see very well.
Karim Badra and I know Georgette very well. She was angry with us because we turned the wall behind her into a Lebanon Would Be Better If. But now we are friends.
She is very sick. And because it’s winter she can’t sell chewing gum.
And hence, she can’t get money to pay the rent of a small bed. Her landlord wants to kick her out. She doesn’t have enough money to pay for her medicin.
The last time I saw her, she colapsed in front of me and I called the Red Cross. All that she asks from me is 2 types of tissue paper and a bottle of water.
Georgette usually sits in front of Books and Pens. Take the first left after AUB main gate and walk up 10 meters. She sits in between Moustache and Alex’s store.
I cannot save Georgette. But we can.
You can help through 3 easy steps:
1) If you see her, be nice to her,
2) Ask her if she wants water, tissues or food
3) Send Karim Badra a message if you want to contact Georgette for more serious help.
(Click this link and send Karim a message).
Humans of Beirut. Save a human. In memory of Ali.
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