7 Things to Know About Coffee (Before you Can Drink it at Iftar or Suhoor)

This is great stock-pile of coffee info, even if mainly for the mini-chart of diagrammatic representations of specialty coffee concoctions.

Caffeine may be best taken in smaller doses for health reasons, but for functioning-during- the-day-reasons it can work wonders!

Since this post is from a blog designed to give healthy nutrition advice, it comes down against the caffeine aspect of coffee (which for some is the whole point) but if you take this with a pinch of salt (not too much mind!) you can still get some useful insights from this coffee compendium.

But it still lives, evolved into other forms: "Make no mistake, the Arab Awakening spreading revolutions to overthrow tyranny is alive and well, just no longer a “spring” or “rosy” or “peachy” or whatever dumb label western media like to slap on it."

"Saudi Arabia squashed the “Arab Spring” when it sent its military to quell the popular uprising in neighboring Bahrain earlier this year. The Saudi intervention was the first systemic use of uniformed, overwhelming force to suppress peaceful demonstrations in the wave of uprising that swept the Arab peoples yearning for freedom and democracy. It emboldened regimes like Yemen, Libya, and Syria to do the same and take it to farther brutal expands."

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. One of the very few things that I personally think all of humanity agrees upon."

Says Dina, "You might be wondering how one can restore compassion in himself or in others or how the idea will be applied, my hint to you is: Thirty kind acts in thirty days. After all, it is Ramadan."

"During a TED talk on February 28, 2008 Karen Armstrong made a wish: to help creating, launching and propagating a Charter for Compassion. on November 12, 2009 the Charter was unveiled to the world. The Golden Rule lies at the core of the charter which consists of a document that transcends religious, ideological, and national difference."
The Charter for Compassion is a document that was drafted by a multi-faith, multi-national council of thinkers and leaders. Here it is:"

"We acknowledge that we have failed to live compassionately and that some have even increased the sum of human misery in the name of religion.'

"The good news is that this charter is not just Karen Armstrong’s project anymore, it has been adopted by a great amount of people and volunteers who are taking this charter and applying it in different parts of the world. And you guessed it, Jordan is on the list."

"The newest mosque in Dubai was opened last week in time for Ramadan and it is a marvel - on the right below. It is the largest mosque in Dubai and the second largest in the UAE after the Sheikh Zayed Mosque in Abu Dhabi. built for the faithful, the mosque is formally known as the Al Farooq Umar bin Khattab Mosque, named after one of the companions of the Prophet (pbuh). "

"When American Eagle opened its Times Square store in late 2009, most of the attention was on the retailer's sprawling 25,000-square-foot, four-story floor plan. But in the year and half since then, it's the brand's towering building-side LED display that's had the most noticeable impact, even in one of the world's most notoriously cluttered visual landscapes....
We've compiled 10 of the more interesting ways the display has been used. Check them out after the jump."