إنا لله و إنا إليه راجعون
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qatarperegrineThis is one of those things I can't work out whether or not to talk about on Livejournal. I'm friends-protecting it for now.
Last night we got an e-mail from a colleague telling us that one of our students, Fahad Al-Jefairi, was killed yesterday in a car accident in Saudi. He was buried today.
I didn't know him hugely well, except that in the last few weeks we'd gotten into some interesting conversations online on Qatarliving and here on my blog. On Friday I was all excited because, in a religious debate, he cited the allegory of the rings from Nathan the Wise -- a play our students got to see broadcast live from the Pittsburgh campus. I was going to write back, but didn't. It's just weird to think that now I can't. (Boy, how self-centered a reaction is that?)
Please keep the Al-Jefairi family in your thoughts, and also our students. They're a tight-knit group, and the loss of their colleague has got to be pretty rough.
إنا لله و إنا إليه راجعون
Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un.
We belong to God, and to God we will return.
Last night we got an e-mail from a colleague telling us that one of our students, Fahad Al-Jefairi, was killed yesterday in a car accident in Saudi. He was buried today.
I didn't know him hugely well, except that in the last few weeks we'd gotten into some interesting conversations online on Qatarliving and here on my blog. On Friday I was all excited because, in a religious debate, he cited the allegory of the rings from Nathan the Wise -- a play our students got to see broadcast live from the Pittsburgh campus. I was going to write back, but didn't. It's just weird to think that now I can't. (Boy, how self-centered a reaction is that?)
Please keep the Al-Jefairi family in your thoughts, and also our students. They're a tight-knit group, and the loss of their colleague has got to be pretty rough.
Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un.
We belong to God, and to God we will return.
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Date: 2006-07-03 03:23 am (UTC)I'm pretty bummed.
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Date: 2006-07-03 03:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-03 11:21 pm (UTC)I couldn't find the ring allegory in that thread. Can you give me a search term?
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Date: 2006-07-04 01:02 am (UTC)The original allegory -- or at least an 1830 translation of the original, which was written in German in 1779 -- can be read here.
The CMU production was actually a more modern (and, I think, nicer) translation, but being still copyrighted it's not available online.
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Date: 2006-07-04 01:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-04 01:58 am (UTC)OH! I'm viewing it while logged in, and I've tweaked my settings to show the entire conversation on one page. I imagine you'd have to either do the same or page through a bit.
Sorry.
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Date: 2006-07-04 02:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-28 07:23 pm (UTC)Qatarcat
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Date: 2006-07-31 06:33 am (UTC)no subject
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