Blood test costs money but reveals life expectancy

You could pay 400 pounds sterling to take a blood test to determine how long you will live, Nakba is erased from Israeli text books for Arab students, The movie on the heels of Caramel set to rock Cannes, and E-book on E-gypt is a way to put a sell-able form on all these chronicles and blogs of revolution.

Learning the results of this medical blood test may impose an expiry date on your life.

Observations of a Lost Soul [2]

The £400 test that tells you how long you’ll live

A lot of people wouldn't want to live a death sentence, which all life ultimately is, or to know how much time they must serve. But once the choice is available commercially, might some people start including it in their regular medical check-ups? Would insurance companies require a certificate of life-expectancy? "A blood test that can show how fast someone is ageing – and offers the tantalising possibility of estimating how long they have left to live – is to go on sale to the general public in Britain later this year."

Caledoniyya [3]

Nakba? What Nakba?

I didn't think it was allowed in Israeli education text books or history books in the first place: But even for the benefit of Arab students? "Israel’s education ministry has ordered the removal of the word nakba – Arabic for the “catastrophe” of the 1948 war – from a school textbook for young Arab children, it has been announced."

A Separate State of Mind [4]

Where Do We Go Now? – New Nadine Labaki Lebanese Movie

The maker of hit-movie Caramel is releasing her next film 'Where Do We Go Now?' this week at Cannes and it is already scoring good reviews. "Set in a religiously mixed village, the movie is about a group of people trying to preserve their town in the midst of inter-religious tension. "

The Arabist [5]

Yasmine Rashidi's "The Battle for Egypt"

E-book on E-gypt: While revolutions are still surging and E-books are proliferating the book world, a writer decides to combine the two trends and create a collection of e-chronicles on the Egyptian revolution. The thing to read at this time while it's hot off the 'press', so to speak. "My friend Yasmine Rashidi has chronicled Egypt's revolution for the New York Review of Books. Her writings are now being published in a collected form as a ebook, which you can get from Amazon for Kindle or in various other formats."