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Walking The Path – Paulo Coelho’s Blog

While doing my daily round of blogs today, I came across a link to Paulo Coelho‘s blog “Walking The Path” on M.S. Hjiouij’s blog.

I’ve been a fan of Paulo Coelho ever since I read his book The Alchemist, which is a really great book, that came at just the right time in my life.

During the months of March, April, May and June, Paulo Coelho is traveling to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in 1986. The purpose of this blog is to enable distant readers to be with Paulo Coelho walking the path.

Paulo’s blog is as inspirational and well written as his books, offering precious thoughts and valuable insights into life; which made it shoot straight onto my blogroll.

The blog is published in 4 languages: English, French, Portuguese and Spanish.

So, check it out and walk the path with Paulo Coelho…

Bombers And Baskets

Journalist: “Monsieur Ben M’Hidi, don’t you think it’s a bit cowardly to use women’s baskets and handbags to carry explosive devices that kill so many innocent people?”

Ben M’Hidi: “And doesn’t it seem to you even more cowardly to drop napalm bombs on defenseless villages, so that there are a thousand times more innocent victims? Of course, if we had your airplanes it would be a lot easier for us. Give us your bombers, and you can have our baskets.”

— Dialogue from The Battle of Algiers, dir. Gillo Pontecorvo (1965).

[Via: Lawrence of Cyberia]

Mariah Carey Live In Tunisia Soon

So, the news is that American music diva Mariah Carey will be coming to Tunisia this summer to perform at two concerts.

The concerts will be held on July 22nd and 24th at the Menzah Stadium in Tunis.

It’s not very often that someone as famous as Mariah Carey comes to Tunisia for a concert. We’ve only had Michael Jackson once, Sting once and well I don’t remember who else, if any.

Still I’m not too sure I’ll be going. I used to like some of Mariah’s music in the early 90’s, around the period of her hit album ‘Music Box’.

But then after her divorce, when she started stripping out of her clothes and teaming up with a bunch of rappers, she went on my musical blacklist.

Her latest album ‘The Emancipation of Mimi’ has some songs that are reminiscent of her old style, which I think is the reason of its success, but well it hasn’t really made me much more of a fan of hers.

She has a good voice though, when she’s not shouting too much to the border of squeaking, so I don’t know, maybe from now to the dates of the concerts, I’ll have a little mind change and say “Why not?”

Till then, here’s another bit of Mariah Carey related news: Mariah Carey to be honoured for her “Celebrity Legs of a Goddess”. Whatever…