Have you ever heard of someone who becomes angry about silly things such as faint noises, like the sound of breathing or eating? Many people get upset when they hear these sounds, and this condition is called misophonia or selective sound sensitivity syndrome....
Vitamin D Deficiency
Definition: Vitamin D is one of many vitamins our bodies need to stay healthy. This vitamin has many functions, including: Maintaining bone strength: Having healthy bones protects you from various diseases, including rickets. Calcium absorption: Vitamin D, along with...
When Contact Becomes A Nightmare
There are some people for whom touch causes real pain and horror. There are those who don’t need hugs to feel warm and safe; on the contrary, they instead experience touch as something like a terrible nightmare. These are the people with haphephobia. Haphephobia is a...
The Coronavirus and Its Effects On Our Lives
From the first period of the spread of the coronavirus, everyone was talking about the disadvantages of corona, but what didn’t come to mind is how the pandemic has also had some positive effects on our lives. Here are four positive ways to look at this worldwide...
The Widowmaker
The sound of the word itself brings fear and anxiety to the listener. So what is a widowmaker? The widowmaker is one of the deadliest heart attacks that can hit a person. Your heart muscle needs a constant supply of blood to pump properly and this supply is ensured by...
The Empress Who Loved the Damascus Donkey
Syrian poet Fakhri Al-Baroudi once mentioned in his diary that in 1898, the German Kaiser Wilhelm II and his wife, Empress Augusta Victoria, visited Damascus. While traveling there, Empress was impressed with a white donkey that caught her eye and she asked the...
Cybersecurity Fundamentals for Small Businesses
Cybersecurity session Speaker: Anas Jaber Some of the points that were highlighted during the session: Why cybersecurity matters for your small business Why put your already limited resources into preparing for and protecting against cybersecurity attacks...
My Experience With Volunteering
After the spread of the coronavirus and with people staying at home, many negative thoughts spread among young people due to emptiness and the feeling of laziness and wasting time. Their studies, work, and all activities they were doing stopped, and all people were...
Al Hakawati in Damascus
Al Hakawati (The Storyteller). This title is well known to many Syrians, especially residents of Damascus, whose tradition it is to gather in cafes to listen to the stories narrated by ‘al hakawati.’ These were not just ordinary stories, but stories from history, such...
Bodies Die, Lives Remain
People leave this world but their souls remain among us, and we feel them through the gifts they left before they passed away. The gifts that Abdullatif Chakaki left were his children, who immortalized his memory through the fund they opened to help refugees complete...