Parsi 'Farrokh' Freddie Mercury's 65th tribute present from Google, a Doodle!

If you thought your identity or life story was complicated, look at Freddie Mercuries ethnic origins and life in Zanzibar, India through to Middlesex UK; Over to Lebanon where (apart from setting world records in Sheesh Kebabs and Dabkehs) are doing fine in this season of unrest; And watching child-play reminds you of the simple pleasures.

Huffington post [3]

Google Doodle Pays Tribute To Freddie Mercury (VIDEO)

"The latest Google Doodle, which went live for some on September 4, pays tribute to Freddie Mercury, who would have celebrated his 65th birthday on September 5."

Asian Window [4]

Parsi boy-made-good Freddie Mercury

Freddie saw himself as Persian due to his Parsi roots, according to his family, and he never talked about his past because he was the kind of person who always looked to the future. "As an Indian, I always felt a certain horrified fascination at watching a Parsi boy prance around on stage looking like a gay weightlifter in a Cusrow Baug gymnasium."

Queen Zone [5]

Panchgani's Wild Strawberry

Parsis and of Zoroastrianism? Not Persian exactly but of greater Persia in the sub-continent. "India has however turned its back on the man that many claim is its only truly global superstar. Very few people now think of Freddie Mercury as an Indian Parsi."

The lab live [6]

Political activism on the internet, why it's failing in Lebanon?

Why not in Lebanon? Because, concludes this blog, freedom of expression is not barred, but par for the course. With a country teeming with variety and swimming with schisms, this license is a good thing to say the least! "After almost one year of revolutions in the Arab world, some of them are already half finished and the others still need a lot of efforts and sacrifice, however, all of them had the igniting spark and started the one way journey for change, freedom and a better future." "After all what is happening around us many of us are starting to ask about why the political cyber activism was fruitful in our neighboring countries but not in Lebanon."

Blog Baladi [7]

Gotta love Our Minister of Interior

Aha, that's why it's all quiet on the Lebanon front! "According to Marwan Charbel, the new Minister of Interior, the security situation in Lebanon is excellent and the best in the Middle East and that the minor incidents happening are common and there’s no reason for Lebanese not to feel safe."

Nour spot [8]

I’ve Been Watching Your World From Afar…

"Looking out my bedroom window, I rarely see anything other than pigeons or the stillness of the surrounding buildings. But as I looked outside this afternoon, I noticed two boys playing soccer."