His early life and education:

Al Hakim was born, according to his mother, in 1903, while various researchers note that he was born in 1898. Al hakim, which was born in a wealthy family, was born to an Egyptian father and a Turkish mother. Al hakim’s relation with his mother was unstable, where he notes “she had a violent temper, she was like a volcano of anger”. This unstable relation with his mother gave Al Hakim a shy personality, where he was surrounded by an emotional shell that kept him away from the society, that along with the fact that his family was an aristocratic family and rarely socialized with the public. Nonetheless, Al Hakim’s mother stories that she used to narrate in her illness bed were the seed in Al Hakim’s fertile imagination. He got his Bachelor degree in Law in 1925. After the dean of dramatic literature finished his early education in Damanhur and Cairo, he traveled to Paris, forced by his family, to get his PhD in law [1].
In Paris, Al Hakim came in contact with the European culture and was influenced by it in his early work, especially in theater. Even so, he was influenced by the events in his era, which “witnessed a comprehensive literary revival in all genres of Arabic literature” [2]. After a while, Al Hakim traveled back to Egypt without his law PhD, but he came with something more important, literature wise, which was his vision of modern Arabic Drama.
After his returning home, Al Hakim worked in many different jobs in law, where he worked as a deputy prosecutor in Alexandria, combining his legal work with writing. In 1929, he transferred to the civil courts and worked in other cities, including Tanta, Damanhour and Dessouk, but he resigned governmental work and started his journalism career in “Akbar Al-Yum” newspaper, where he published some of his plays [3].

His magnificent literature
Al Hakim is truly the founder of modern Arabic Drama literature, as Taha Hussein declared. He struggled on behalf of the Arabic drama as a new genre and shaped its techniques and its language. Nonetheless, he had his hands in other genres in Arabic literature as well, where he was known for writing novels, poems and essays for journalistic purposes that deals with the socio-political matters.
Here is some of his none theatric work:

His theatrics work
Tawfiq Al Hakim and theatrical work came to life in three main phases throughout his life which were the following:
1. Biographical Theatre:
This phase was in his early life where he was exposed to several issues in life and wrote more than 400 plays such as “the Groom” and “Before the Ticket Office”. Al Hakims work in this phase was more artistic because it was based on his personal opinion in social life.
2. Intellectual Theatre:
In this phase he produced plays that were not to be played rather than being read, and he even refused to call these plays “plays” and preferred to publish them in there own books.
3. Objective Theatre:
In his last phase, Al Hakim stands looks at the society with the father eyes trying to fix some value and wanting to portray the real Egyptian life. Although his work in this phase was to assist the society, it was quite symbolic with a lot of reality and imagination.
Al Hakim never was committed to one source for his creativity, where he explored the classic Islamic heritage in particular and the eastern heritage in general. For example he used the story of the people of the cave mentioned in the Holy Quran in his play “the people of the cave “that was published in 1933. In this play he discussed the matter of humanity and time and the clash among love and time in a symphonic form representing a sociological focus. He wanted to discuss the disability of facing the present with old fashioned ideas. He also used the theme of Arabian nights in his play “Shahrazad”.
In 1934 he published his play “wise Solomon” which also was based on an Islamic heritage. All of these plays, that influenced by Islamic heritage, was due to Al Hakim’s vision in linking the Islamic-Arabic element with the western intellectual element.
In general, Al Hakim tried in his early work to remodel the early Arabic heritage to meet the modernity of literature that is influenced by the western civilization. However, he then reaches to the Greek methodology and uses it as his later works’ canvas. For Example in his play “Odieb the King” he sheds the light on the conflict between man and fate. This play is entirely emerged in deep Greek thematic water, and uses exclusively Greek myths.
As an Egyptian play writer, it was natural to find ancient Egyptian myths in Al Hakims work. It’s a fact that Al hakim used ancient Egyptian themes in his early novels, but it was later that he used it in his plays. Some researches say that this instability in themes in his work is due to Al Hakims personality, where he was easily influenced by different ideas. For example, his attempts to used Islamic themes in this early work in the 30’s was due to the general atmosphere in Egypt in that time were there where many attempts to revive the Islamic heritage and that was until the end of World War II.

coming

I have this feeling that there is something coming. a feeling that comes usually before a disaster, or even something amazing. I don’t know what is this weird feeling. Its not butterflies in my stomach as they say, its as if these butterflies are dead, and something else is growing inside me, like a tree, a dark tree. I finally reach a pivot point, a turning point in my entire life and this weird feeling strikes. Is is the feeling of change? or is it a feeling of a mysterious happening is taking place in the horizon. Not even my best friend is with me in this. The connection we had together is gone. I feel that I’m alone in this world, very alone, like a dying tree in the forest, surrounded by trees but no tree can reach and help.

I feel that my old depression, the depression I spent five years of my life fighting is coming back like fire running on wood. I feel it, like a birth of an unholy child, the child of Lucifer crowling out of a womb. I feel that its either an end, or a beginning, its a point where things change, or even end.

they say people sometimes sense their death. Is it my death coming near? Five people I know died in one week, is that a sign? I’m sick, my back is killing me, I can’t move out of bed. Is sleeping all the time a reason for this feeling. Why can’t I beat this depression? why did I stop creating like before? why did I lose interest in life? why did I lose all my fights?

I’m a loner, a wolf that can’t live with others. I man of too many faces, a man suffering someone else’s mistakes/desires. I’m empty yet filled with cold rage.

Are my old feelings, my years of misery is catching up with me. But I grew stronger, a man made of steel, a heartless man with no fears, with no people to miss, with no mistakes to regret. No.. I killed my demons, I’m my own world.

whatever is coming, I don’t care, I’ll stand, and the wind will blow anyway.

Obama, the comming SUPERMAN

the American media illustrates Obama as the coming American hero. This poor guy will have to clean the mess that the smartest,most-loved, adorable, peace-maker, in the history of the entire universe since Julius Cesar, left behind. No one can deny that the world have experienced a hell of destruction in the time of Bush. Tragically 9/11 happened in the Bush’s era, along with the war on Afghanistan, the war on Iraq and other horrible events that occurred in the last eight years.

Any way, these eight years are gone, and Mr. Bush is packing his socks along with his fancy cigars and counting the days before flying to his ranch in Texas, living the rest of his days drinking and playing golf, not wondering a bit about those the American Army killed by “mistake” in Iraq, or even the young American soldiers who were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in the past years.

Now lets assume that Obama will be elected. since he is a democrat, his political views are a little bit flexable than the republicans, especially regarding war, health insurance issue and education. Obama’s ultimate goal as his campaigns is CHANGE. But one have to wonder now, would his CHANGE theory be inside America only or it will reach other counties. Would Obama order the troops to go back home? or would he save face by keeping them there for another four years and then decide to retract them back home? Would this man, the son of a Muslim man be more flexable with Islamic countries and fix the American Negative Image in these countries? or would he worsen this image as he declared his detachment form his origin and heritage.

Honestly I was very exited about Obama as a candidate and a president in the future, but his speech regarding Palestine and his full support to the state of Israel did shake my faith . I mean I understand America’s constant support to Israel since the J-loopy do control inner America, but that doesn’t call for a bullet in the back of Palestinians skull killing their hope in a better future. Does Israel need all that support really. Its the most developed States in the region weapon wise, why should it be supported, and who will support the Palestinians and I’m talking about the kids and women and the old people who suffer the most. Anyway, this is another subject, lets keep talking about Mr. Obama, who seems the really coming president.

His speech in Germany reminds me of Kennedy’s speech, the only deference is that Kennedy visited Germany as a president, while Obama visited Germany as a candidate. I guess both got the same attention, a sign? maybe. Is Obama the coming Jesus who will save the country and CHANGE it dramatically. would he succeed, or he will be like Clinton, leave office with a scandal? Is Obama the man we think he is? He has a honest face to be frank.

sadness can make us lose our life

Few months ago, I had a friend, a lady-friend to be exact. She was around 30 years old, very beautiful very successful and very married. Yes, she was married to a well-known man who enjoyed a very powerful position in one of the country’s mega media companies. This “friend” wanted more than a friendship relation with me. She obviously wanted a very close relation with me assuming I would be the perfect guy for her. She assumed that I’m 30, and all I did was just support this assumption.
With the days, our relation became stronger (from one side, which was hers). For some reason, she assumed that I want to run away with her, and start a new life. in short,  she was nothing to me but a good novel material.
Since I’m a serious novelist, I take opportunity and record all the strange events I come across in my daily life, to benefit from in my future novels. Which means that every single human being I came across in my life have a profile in my computer (personality, emotion wise, intellectuality… etc), isn’t that what good novelists usually do, they experiment and observe to come up with a good novel.
Anyway, what made me keep this relation was the fact that this lady had serious emotional and psychological issues. As she told me, she suffered chronicle depression and occasional blackouts and she was on a lot of numbness drugs that would prevent her from committing suicide. I became fascinated with her dark deep cold personality and I started to prepare my next novel which would be based on her life story. She was a writer too, writing a memoir in the time we were in contact. She sent me her book to evaluate (assuming I’m a strong keen novelist). I honestly couldn’t finish the entire book since I found its language plan and the ideas direct and cold. She was revolving around the point of depression without striking topics that gave led to it.
After a reading her book, I entered a loop of depression that lasted for three entire days. I ate like a pig, and slept like an old lady (which are the things I do when I get depressed). I suffered chronicle depression when I was 17 and it lasted with me until my third year in collage. It didn’t show really on my face, but I did suffer it in silence. In the end the depression was gone (or so I thought) until I read her book. She suffered rape in the age of 20 in London, she was abused as a child suffering the war in Lebanon, and she got married to a local man that treats her as a “thing”. She was trying to get pregnant but her husband obviously lost interest in her.
This woman did leave a trace of sorrow in my life, and I’m really glad that our relation has ended. And I’ve just heard that she is finally pregnant and waiting for a baby that might start a new era of pure happiness in her sad miserable life.

Palm Treo 680

Unlike other reviews, I’ll keep this one plane and simple to save your time. Here we go, the goods, the bads and a quick rating.

The GOODS:
1. Smart phone with all Calendar, Contacts, To-Do list, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint included
2. Easy-to use pushmail with multi-accounts configuration
3. A relatively huge screen that makes processing data and viewing images and video quit enjoyable
4. Unlike Blackberry Bold, it comes with a camera
5. Sound recorder ( voice memo app)
6. Full keyboard
7. Mp3 player app (Ptunes)
8. Tones of 3rd party applications easy to sync with the device using the cradle
9. Easy and quick Internet surfing ( Opera mini is recommended)

The BADS:
1. The device reboots it self sometimes for no obvious reasons
2. The camera ain’t that great (but this is the case with most Smartphone’s the usually never come with a high resolution camera. An MP camera is needed in this device.
3. Standard Palm interface. I don’t know why they don’t make some effort in enhancing this 90’s interface. ( you can download some apps to change the theme for sure which is helpful in fact)

4. The battery (oh God) lasts for like 2 seconds. You need to recharge this device at least once a day. But I believe that there is a replaceable battery out there now that last longer. A piece of advice, disconnect the battery instead of shouting down the device, that’s help, and keep it connected to the cradle as much as possible.

Quick RATING:
I’ll give this device 7.5/10 since it needs more improvements to top other device out there in the market.

Bottom LINE:
Good for those who are on the go, and need their MS office with them. Its quite good device when it comes to organizing and scheduling.