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Thursday, October 1, 2009

ARE YOU A JERK MAGNET?

If this is the case then you are an ideal magnet for guys on the rebound! Yep! Your four men were hurt, confused, unstable, and looking for a quick fix. You kindly waived your right to be a girlfriend and embraced the role of a therapist. Here is the difference:

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Marwa Rakha for Identity (September 09)

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Marwa Rakha: Identity Magazine

I hope you enjoy my articles for Identity Magazine

Ask Marwa: July 2009

Ask Marwa: Emotional Roller Coaster

Ask Marwa: I have had it! Mama's Boy

Ask Marwa: How do I know that he is THE ONE?

Ask Marwa: How to build your inner sense of security?

Ask Marwa: I love-hate her

Ask Marwa: I want to hate him

Ask Marwa: I want to die (Virginity again)
Ask Marwa: Was it love?
Ask Marwa: My mom is prettier than I am
Laugh and the whole world laughs with you ... weep and you weep alone
Ask Marwa: My mom is driving me crazy
My attempt at an Ethical Will
Searching for Laila's Identity (Kolena Laila Initiative)
Things Couples SHOULD NOT Take for Granted
DID YOU JUST GET DUMPED?
ENVY – THE ULCER OF THE SOUL
Say "NO" ... while you still can!

Friday, April 17, 2009

Marwa Rakha: Updates

Hi again everyone:)

I have been so busy lately and my life has been great ... let me tell you what I have been doing

Latest News:
A New Service - خدمة جديدة
Click here to watch the pilot episode of my new program Tadweena تدوينة

Marwa Rakha with Hussein Fahmy on Al Hayat Channel

Marwa Rakha on Al Jazeera International

Marwa Rakha's Poison Tree on Channel 2

مروة رخا على القناة الثانية برنامج زينة تتحدث عن كتاب شجرة السم، و كتاب أنا عايزة أتجوز لغادة عبد العال و كتاب اكتشف نصفك الآخر للدكتورة هبة ياسين

Marwa Rakha on Channel 2 (Women and Leadership) - Part 1

Marwa Rakha on Channel 2 (Women and Leadership) - Part 2

Marwa Rakha on Channel 2 (Women and Leadership) - Part 3

مروة رخا و مدحت عبد الهادى و شريف مندور و شرين دعبس على القناة الثانية برنامج زينة و حلقة عن دور المرأة فى القيادة و صلاحيتها لهذا الدور

Marwa Rakha on Dream TV (Arabic) - Part 1

Marwa Rakha on Dream TV (Arabic) - Part 2

مروة رخا على قناة دريم مع فاتيما و عمرو صالح .. الحب ... الغريزة .. كيمياء الحب

All my post on Global Voices Online

Egypt: Cleanliness Day on April 10

Egypt: Should rapists be hanged on TV?

Egypt: April 18 Declared Anti-Harassment Day

Egypt: Baha'is attacks spark outcry

Egyptian Baha'is under attack

Egypt's First Adult Graphic Novel on Trial

Is Egypt on the verge of a cultural revolution?

Egypt: Women turn to the Internet to fight taboos

and MORE

Interesting Links:
Some people care for what I have to say: The Interviews section on marwarakha.com is working .. have a look
My book The Poison Tree - planted & grown in Egypt is now on Amazon .... spread the word:)
Buy The Poison Tree on Amazon.com
Click here: I uploaded my interview on Nile Life برنامج كل ليلة
Click here: I uploaded my interview on Dream TV برنامج شبابيك

Mark your calendars

Every Monday ... I am on After Dark with Erin on Nile FM 104.2 from 10pm to 12midnight (Email me your problems or suggestions). Show is in English and you can listen to us live on http://www.nilefmonline.com/

Every Sunday & Wednesday ... I am on Radio Horytna with Yassmin Yassin from 6pm to 7pm (Email me your problems or suggestions). Show is in Arabic and you can listen to us live on http://www.horytna.net/

I wrote some controversial articles for Campus:

Let's Play Hide & Seek - Where do unhappy people go?
A Hell of a Marriage
Is Pre-marital Sex for you?
Rebound Relationships: Are you on the rebound? Or are you a Rebound?
What if the SEX is not Good?
I am not a Virgin
The Call
Hey you … yes you!
ALLERGIC TO THE F-WORD!
HUH?
How Secure is Secure

مقالاتى لمجلة احنا

إناء الكيتش نضح بما فيه
أنا ولد و باتكسف من خيالى
أحمد زى الحاج أحمد
الراجل
انشفى يا ليلى
عزيزى الرجل الشرقى ...أنا اُفضل أن أكون عشيقتك مش مراتك
خبيرة العلاقات العاطفية تعلن إنها ملهاش فى العلاقات العاطفية
جوزى بيقول عليكى ضد الشرع و الدين
عيب والله العظيم عيب
هاطلع من هدومى
الغباء العاطفى و العياذ بالله
و كأنى كنت حامل و سقطت
نصائح لكل مواطن هـ "يشطـّب" شقته
مش كل كلام الكبار صح و مش كل كلامهم غلط ... اهلى كانوا صح لما قالوا و كانوا غلط لما قالوا
فوبيا الارتباط بامنا الغولة او بابو رجل مسلوخة
أخى المواطن .... احترس من هذه المرأة
ضل رجل ولا ضل حيطة
مصر: الشعب ضد البلد

On the pages of What Women Want, I sent a few letters to a few men ... feel free to copy:)

Dear MAN - You are Mine!
Dear MAN - Where are you?
Dear MAN - You are a clown
Dear MAN - My name is Laila
Dear MAN ... I want to hurt you
Dear MAN ... I love you
Dear MAN ... I left you
Dear MAN ... I need my space
Dear MAN ... I miss you

I hope you enjoy my articles for Identity Magazine

What do I Love about you? Episode 37 (Arabic Radio) بحب فيك انك محترم/ة

What do I Love about you? Episode 36 (Arabic Radio) حلقة خاصة مع أمل محمود و كتابها علشان السنارة تغمز

What do I Love about you? Episode 35 (Arabic Radio) أهمية الضحك لنجاح الحب

What do I Love about you? Episode 34 (Arabic Radio) الذكاء العاطفى

What do I Love about you? Episode 33 (Arabic Radio) الغرور الكبر

What do I Love about you? Episode 32 (Arabic Radio) الشهامة و الجدعنة

What do I Love about you? 31st Episode (Arabic Radio) كوكتيل مشاكل

Monday, February 16, 2009

Ask Marwa: My mom is prettier than I am

Dear Marwa

I have a huge problem that is making me miserable. I wish I was never born. Would you believe me if I told you that my mom is the cause of my misery? I will tell you why; my mom is gorgeous. She is this beautiful tall model-looking blond whereas I look like my dad. I am not ugly but next to my mom I look like a dull ordinary girl. When my friends meet her, they do not believe that I am the daughter of this pretty woman. They ask me why I look nothing like her.

The guys at school, instead of showering me with compliments, the first thing they tell me is how wonderful my mom looks. I was performing in a play at school and she stole my light just by showing up. I am beginning to feel jealous of her and I asked her not to pick me up from school again. I do not want to go into details about what happens on the beach, at weddings, or even while walking with her on the street. I love her but her presence hurts me.

The ugly duckling

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Ask Marwa: Was it love?

Hello Marwa,

I am a 24 year old female who works for a reputable company. Two years ago, I fell in love with a colleague. I was attracted to his wonderful character and religious sense in addition to his gentlemanliness. The problem is that during that period, he never stated directly and frankly to me that he loves me, but his eyes were saying it and the birthday party that he prepared for me said it too. Anyway, I waited and waited, but no step was taken from his side and I got engaged to someone I don't know through an arranged marriage.

My fiancée loved me a lot, but I could not love him at all. Actually, I hated everything about him; he was a smoker and I hate smokers and he watches pornography and whenever we were together in the club or in a cafe, he did not miss any chance to look at and comment on any female. After six months, my fiancée got a job abroad and I only saw him online. After another six months, I received an SMS from the colleague that I was in love with saying "I know it took me too long to say it but I love you so much."

In a minute, everything that I felt or though that I felt for my fiancée vanished. I could only think of my colleague and how long I waited for him to declare his love for me. I took the decision to leave my fiancée and break up the engagement one month before my wedding. My loving colleague was supposed to come back to Egypt at the end of the year in which all of these events happened (2007). We were talking on the phone everyday in a very respectable manner (nothing beyond I love you and I miss you was said and that is why I loved him so much.)

However, two weeks before his flight to Egypt, we stopped communicating, I don't know how it happened, but it happened. Then he called me to tell me that financially speaking we will not be able to be together in spite of the fact that I was ready to live in any level just to be with him and I offered to buy us an apartment here in Egypt. He sent me an SMS to wish me a better future and he left me. I heard nothing about him since then.I do not know if money was the real problem or there was something else. Was he getting back at me for getting engaged and leaving him? But I did not do so; he was the one who did not do anything or take any step.

My questions are: Was I mistaken to leave my fiancée? Did that colleague deserve that sacrifice (if you knew that my fiancée's financial conditions were great)? Was I really in love?

Badly Hurt

Read my reply

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Laugh and the world laughs with you .. weep and you weep alone

Countless articles highlighted the importance of laughter and humor; how it prolongs your life, why it is a natural anti-aging solution, when it is the ideal way out of an embarrassing situation, where it is cute and adorable, what makes it the best camouflage for wrinkles, and the fact that it just makes you more likable and more socially acceptable. In presentation skills and public speaking workshops we guide the attendees on how and when to use humor, in customer care sessions we never get tired of stressing how the customer could see your smile on the phone, in motivational courses we tell people to start their day with a smile and urge them to turn dreary situation into joke material. But were you ever tempted to tell someone that they were not funny or that their jokes were off or that you just could not stand their wit?

Read more on humor

Dear Marwa

I am sending you this email because I want you to discuss the parent-child relationship. I am sure that I am not the only one who is suffering because of a parent-related problem. I have a chronic problem with my mother. She is too dominating. She wants her orders obeyed without any form of discussion. I am the youngest among my three brothers and I am thirty years old. That means that I am an adult and that I could be fully responsible for my life. If I were married I would have been in charge of a home and kids of my own. She has no faith in me. My mother does not believe that I could take care of the slightest things that relate to me. In her eyes we are kids and she has to take full care of us. She cannot see that we are grownups.

I will give you a few examples of the forms of torture that I have to live with: I cannot choose my own clothes for until today she dresses me up according to her own taste. She dictates when I am allowed to go out and when I am not. She chooses my friends for me and she monitors my phone calls. I would tell her that I am going out with a certain friend to a certain place and I cannot tell you how many times she had showed up unannounced just to make sure that I was where I said I would be. She blindly follows traditions even if it was at the risk of making us miserable. When we try to object we are accused of being ungrateful and non obedient, then she starts crying and wonders what she did wrong to deserve children like us. She tells us that we would go to hell and that we would never be successful because she is angry at us.

I am really confused. Do you think God will really punish me for not obeying her? Do you think I am wrong for how I feel about her? My brothers cannot get married because every time they get engaged the girl ends it because of my mother; she interferes in the girl's life the same way she interferes in mine. Now I have no vision, no standards, no principles, and no one to really guide me. I lie to her, I cheat, and I even smoke behind her back. I have a boyfriend and I cannot tell her. I am always sad and everything makes me feel guilty. I wish I could talk to her as a friend but I feel that I hate her most of the time. Will God punish me for that too?
Yours,
H

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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Searching for Laila's Identity (Kolena Laila Initiative)

In September 2008, I was honoured to receive an invitation to contribute to a woman's empowerment initiative called Kolena Laila - We Are All Laila. It was the first time I had heard of this campaign.

I got in touch with Lasto Adri* Blue, known as Eman, who is one of the leading organisers of the initiative. She explained to me that 2008 was Kolena Laila's third year and that Laila is the heroine of a novel entitled The Open Door (El Bab El Maftouh) by writer Latifa El Zayyat. Laila was chosen as a symbol for each and every Egyptian woman who is trying to mould her independent personality in an oppressive society.

Read more about Kolena Laila

My attempt at an Ethical Will

I always thought that the ideal time for writing a will is when a person feels that the end is near - I have no clue where I got that idea from. Dr. Baines gave me a totally new perspective. In an ethical will, people share a part of themselves and this part helps them identify and act upon their beliefs. It also helps the reader of this will to understand where they are coming from and what they value most. This could be an ideal tool between couples at anytime of their relationship, between parents and their children regardless of their age, between grand parents and their grand children, or between friends and business associates.

There is no better time to share with you my ethical will than at the end of a fruitful and very productive year:

• I have learnt the joy of tolerance and that he who judges shall be judged. People are different and I am different too.

• I believe in mercy and forgiveness. I am still working on second chances though. We all make mistakes.

• Fame does not last but the people you have helped will remember your forever.

• Beauty does not last either but the people who see your heart will always see your beauty.

Read the rest of my Will

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Things Couples SHOULD NOT Take for Granted

A friend of mine told me that he had had revelation - a moment of epiphany he called it - as he realised that he is addicted to falling in love: the excitement, the warmth, the high, the getting to explore a new partner, and the other feelings that come with meeting a new person. He also told me that after that initial phase has passed, he has withdrawal symptoms that involve taking his partner for granted. He no longer has butterflies in his stomach when she calls and he no longer wants to go out of his way to please or to impress her. He said that he will eventually get married to the girl he is seeing now, but he misses the beginnings. Listening to him talk made me realise that most couples, knowingly or unknowingly, fall into this trap and the longer they stay with their partners, the more they take them for granted. The next thing you know, they are both unhappy and they have both forgetten why they even got together in the first place. This piece is an attempt to remind each man and woman who is in a relationship of the things they take for granted and shouldn't.

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Sunday, August 3, 2008

Did you just get dumped?

The deadline was approaching and I had no clue what I was going to write about this issue; Rola wanted something light to go with the laid back summer spirit and fun vacations. I thought of summer flings but I was not very enthusiastic about the idea. I waited and waited until I was finally rewarded ... I got dumped ... now I have something to write about! I kid you not this is exactly what happened and instead of curling up in bed and crying my eyes out I decided to abuse my abused heart and make a fun feature out of my not-so-funny experience.

I have not been dumped in a while - not because I have been a good girl but rather because I have been avoiding exclusive relationships and commitment. People came and went but my emotional stability was intact. Until some vain streak took over and I thought that I was ready for giving my all to one person. Deluded me thought that I grew immune to being dumped - why would any man in his right mind dump a girl like me? Other than the looks and the brains, I do not nag, far from clingy, a good listener, supportive, understanding, and could be fun.

The dumping scenario triggered my long history of messed up relationships and I decided to list for you the top ten repetitive lines a man says when he is hesitating or when he is walking away - be it in the very beginning of the relationship or at any stage:

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Friday, July 11, 2008

ENVY – THE ULCER OF THE SOUL

“Are you comparing me to Marwa Rakha?” exclaimed a female writer in a casual chat with a blogger friend of mine using her usual flippant wit that I used to admire when I first got to know her. I will not get into the details of what could have prompted her bile; I will just pause for a few minutes and try to analyze how women – as opposed to men – behave when jealousy strikes them. Being the descendant of the caveman, when a man is jealous or envious of another man, he would get himself a prettier wife, bulkier muscles, more kids, a bigger home, or a fancier car; but when a woman covets what another woman has, there are so many ways to go about it. Let me share with you the categories that I created for fe-mail spite. (I am the Egyptian Fe-mail after all)

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Saturday, June 14, 2008

Say "NO" ... while you still can!

An easy guide to men who are BAD for you ... from The Poison Tree, Planted & Grown in Egypt

Mr. Perfect
He was young, tall, dark, handsome, successful, well off, and open-minded. Mr. Perfect was willing to see me even though he knew that I was living on my own, I had a career, I traveled a lot, and I am not the compromising type. Mom was certain that she would get to see me in a wedding gown in no time!

I asked Mr. Perfect if he was the faithful type. The question just flew out of my mouth and it was too late to take it back. All it took from Mr. Not-So-Perfect was a clear audible "NO" as an answer to my question, to bring my green-eyed monster out of its cave. I repeated my question again highlighting the facts that I expected my husband to be loyal; that I liked to play fair and square; that it was a two way street; that from a religious stance, marital infidelity is a big sin that men and women get stoned to death for.

Again I kept getting nonsensical replies from the groom-to-be. Matrimonial devotion did not seem to suit his notions. Of course Mr. Not-So-Perfect had every right to walk away. With his God-given qualities and mouthwatering attributes he could easily land any girl he wanted for a marriage bargain. Why would he bother with me and with my "radical" opinions? Why did he have to justify his actions and keep his promises? He did not need to resist temptation if he knew in advance that he would be forgiven.

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Thursday, October 1, 2009

ARE YOU A JERK MAGNET?

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Marwa Rakha: Identity Magazine

Friday, April 17, 2009

Marwa Rakha: Updates

Monday, February 16, 2009

Ask Marwa: My mom is prettier than I am

Ask Marwa: Was it love?

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Laugh and the world laughs with you .. weep and you weep alone

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Searching for Laila's Identity (Kolena Laila Initiative)

My attempt at an Ethical Will

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Things Couples SHOULD NOT Take for Granted

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Did you just get dumped?

Friday, July 11, 2008

ENVY – THE ULCER OF THE SOUL

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Say "NO" ... while you still can!

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