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Man without limbs leads millions with his heart

Saman Haziq

Friday night turned out quite a ‘Night of Hope’ for thousands of people who came to the The Dome arena in Sports City to attend a talk by motivational speaker Nick Vujicic. Dubai audience was moved, touched and inspired as this ‘unstoppable’ Aussie showed the city that he did not need limbs to own the world! Nick weaved magic with his candid yet animated talk on how he transformed his ‘life without limbs’ to a ‘life without limits’. Continue reading Man without limbs leads millions with his heart

Give power to the mind through reading

Mustafa Al Zarooni

Mental development of a human being starts from its inception when the surrounding ideas start influencing his mind, and allow him to fulfil his practical and intellectual life accordingly. So how can a student, who has visited the world of a printed word, seen hundreds and thousands of those around him loitering about, distracted intellectually, and contemplating what is in their hands of cultural schemes? Continue reading Give power to the mind through reading

Social media sickness is a real thing

Since the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, I have overheard a number of colleagues and friends remarking that they chose to go off of one or more social media sites because they were angered by what Trump supporters had been writing. Similarly, for me, what started as a one month digital break from Facebook turned into a more permanent deactivation of my account when I started to realise how much more peaceful it felt to remain unplugged (at least from Facebook). Continue reading Social media sickness is a real thing