Is Bitcoin heading to the cliff? Here are a few fundamental questions that, if left unanswered, might eventually push the fledgling cryptocurrency off the cliff.

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To let go and enjoy the present is hard, but is, no doubt, the best way to fully experience anything. Here is what I learned about that from Eastern Europe.

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Amid the daily chaos in Morocco, one usually wonders: What's wrong with this place? A legitimate question to which there are millions of answers. Here's one!

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The civil war in Syria is not a clear-cut genocide and to call it such is a mistake.

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Saddest moments of life are when you have to say goodbye to people you want to see tomorrow.

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Life is a journey and we are story tellers. How can we tell a unique story unless we step outside the conventional way of living.

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Does education encourage participation in the democratic process? Drs. Milligan, Moretti & Oreopoulos (US NBER, 2003) have decyphered a "strong and robust relationship" between education and voting turnout in the U.S. Other researchers, however, found no such correlation in countries like Spain and South Korea (AUB, 2003). What do you think?

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US elections are highly undemocratic: only Americans vote, yet the effect of the suffrage is felt by the whole world. For the Middle East, US foreign policy shapes and is shaped by events. What an Obama or Romney victory could mean for Middle Easterns.

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I have a dream that one day -in my lifetime- Muslims live out the true meaning of Islam, that they answer the first duty call of their religion : to read, seek knowledge and wipe out illiteracy for this was the very first word and verse revealed to the Prophet. That they read with open hearts before they utter the words in their lips. That they seek truths from the holy books, philosophy essays and even within children's questions and wonders, seek knowledge from the East to the West, for knowledge has no boundaries, and finally, that they recall that "One hour's meditation on the work of the Creator is better than seventy years of prayer" (Muhammad PBUH)

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In light of the heart-breaking events that unfolded after the release of a despicable short film about the "savior of humanity" [1], I wanted to reach out to the world, as a fellow human being first, and as a proud Muslim second.

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