Dr. Alaa Mahmoud Al-Tamimi February 2026 On a quiet winter evening, a son sat beside his father, who had passed seventy. The light was dim, and the house rested in a serenity that resembled the calm of long years lived. The silence between them was not empty; it was filled with memories that required no words. The son spoke, gazing into the distance: Father… I am afraid life will pass too quickly. I feel I must achieve so much—build a name, secure my future, prove myself befo

With the dawn of a new year, we stand on the threshold of time not merely to bid farewell to the past year, but to reflect on what it has taught us. Years do not pass in vain, and each departing year takes with it faces, moments, and old versions of ourselves that will never return. Last year, people we knew, loved, or who once passed through our lives, left this world. They were here, then they were no more… They left behind a silent truth: that time cannot be postponed, and

The election of Zohran Mamdani, a young Muslim, as the new Mayor of New York City was far more than a passing headline. It was a turning point in the story of a metropolis that has long represented the world in miniature — diverse, restless, and alive with contradiction. He is the first Muslim ever to hold this office and the youngest in nearly a century. Yet the deeper meaning lies not in the victory itself, but in what it says about a city’s maturity: that it can still choo