With the upcoming New Year, all astrologists compete in telling about their predictions especially what it concerns the celebrities. With 2007, stars have brought a lot of surprises for everyone. Some of them are bad and others are not. Well let’s see what did the stars tell stars.

Elissa: The biggest surprise for charming Elissa is that she will most probably get engaged. She will accomplish a lot of success as well in her career but the only problem she will face is that she may go to court to face Selim El Turk, the director of her latest video clip “Law Tearafo” to continue the problems they already started.

Wael Kfoury: On career and romantic wise, Wael will be generally satisfied and will solve problems that he has been suffering from.

Ever think that all the traditions of a normal wedding are really over-rated? If you are a gamer (or just a person who enjoys funny things) you'll love this wedding cake!

This woman loved games so much, she made the whole wedding cake into video game systems!! The bottom layer is an Xbox 360, on top of that is the PS2, then an Xbox with, if you could notice, the DVD remote sensor in the controller port. On the top is the limited edition 'Legend of Zelda' GameCube. All, of course, with little icing controllers. And such attention to details! The handle is sculpted out of fondant for the GameCube, and air vents were pressed into the cake.
Hah, this just made my day :D

Photos of the PS2 & Xbox 360 Wedding Cake

By guest writer Adam

1. Saddam is clearly the scapegoat for an international war syndicate, which includes many in our current political leadership, both in front and behind the scenes. Evacuating due process, controlling evidence and terrorizing the prosecution team were all par for the course in Saddam’s trial. A key reason for the speedy road to execution, was to eliminate a prominent player and key witness of this international criminal war conspiracy, thereby avoid further indictment of members of our leadership, many of whom have been accessory to Saddam’s actual crimes.

This is a letter to Dr. Hala Sarhan. This letter not only expresses the views of its writer but our views at WALEG as well:

"Dear Dr. Hala Sarhan, I have a request for you, i really like your show so much but by the way you are following i will hate the show cause the commercials that you put inside the show is too too much, I can't believe that the time of commercials are 10 or 15 minutes & the time that u interview the actor is only 3 or 4 minutes, believe me, it's true...

Chatting is reputable for being a source of developing diverse relationships. Young chat with old, Indians to Americans, 'online couples' meet and marry, followers of religions become more confrontational behind the safety net of technology’s distant communication, and paedophiles use it to seek their prey.

Cyberspace eliminates much of what being human is therefore presenting people as confident and outspoken. It seizes to reveal characteristics of shyness and true emotion. Online pauses surpass face to face confrontation allowing more controlled reactions. Habits and hygienic behaviour are invisible. Facial expression is invalid unless aided by a potentially deceptive webcam, and even so it is logical to assume occurrences of exaggeration.

We are all familiar with the romantic fiction books known as Mills and Boon.
These books started out in 1908, and afterwards Harlequin books, a Canadian company began to buy the rights in 1949.
According to some literary critics, these books are only read by "desperate housewives with one brain cell". the thing is not only men that sneer at such books and their readers but many women do as well. I was one of those to laugh at such books and dismiss them as trivial. then I began to notice that many women read them, of different classes and conditions of society.

It is common and practically a code of gender for any group of giggling gossiping girls to have that oh so imaginary conversation ‘What would make the ideal man?’, or to indulge every so often into that illustrious notion of ‘Who would qualify as Mr Right?’ Of course for each girl Mr Right is different, and indeed one girls Mr Right is another girls ‘…Out of the question…Couldn’t be more wrong!’.

Having only ever been acquainted to and falling head over heels for a cue of Mr Wrongs, and failing the task of subjecting one man to the status of Mr Right, the next most convenient and sensible course of action unravels: analyzing every man in the celebrity Kingdom and ripping apart one characteristic or feature from the contenders in something more like mental mutilation in effort to create the perfect man. The practice is virtually logic in any girls maturely imaginative mind…be the object of fascination, him or it resembling something more alien-like than man.

The developments in technology have made a great impact in people’s lifestyle. The internet for instance, with its momentous growth, has become a big part of the people’s daily lives. When you think about it, a lot of people are even becoming dependent on the web – students, businessmen and other sectors of the society. So with this fact, what would be the result if the information they obtain from the web are untrue?

The act of plastic surgery is reputed throughout the world and perhaps has found its place for acceptance, particularly with the upcoming generations who hold fame and celebrity in high regards. Surgery in its many techniques and procedures has certainly become a familiar practise.

There are now almost one million surgeries for plastic or cosmetic surgery across the Arab world. The only factor that exists in relation to what would be regarded as wrong is the question and attitudes of beautifying men beyond ironing hair, perfecting teeth, plucking eyebrows and dress sense. It’s possible to say that we are just beginning to be familiar with the new wave of men who style themselves using the trendy and self conscious ‘metrosexual’ criteria.

Hey I have a question: What age do you think is a suitable age to start teaching sex education? And where do you think sex education should begin, at the home or at school? I started being taught sex education at the age of 11 and I was taught it at school having previously never been taught it. As any normal female and particularly an Arab one I think a lot about what I want my future kid/s to learn (if I have any children off course).

I've kept a lot of my old mathematical, science and other textbooks and some of my old exercise books so that I can rejuvenate my mind when duty calls for me to be a teaching mother because we begin to teach kids maths at a young age and art and languages...

The majority of Egypt's approximately 73 million inhabitants have known no leader other than 78-year-old Hosny Mubarak.

Coupled with persistent rumors that his son Jamal is preparing to succeed him as president, critics have been prompted to speak derisively of the "Egyptian monarchy" which is the norm when it comes to Arab governments.

Why is it considered unlucky when the thirteenth day in a month falls on a Friday?
In North America and Europe, a significant portion of the population behaves very strangely on Friday the 13th. They won't fly in airplanes, host a party, apply for a job, get married or even start a new project. Some people won't even come into work.

"Friday the 13th" as we know it has its roots in many traditions and cultures.
Well, there are two factors that make it scary...
Yes, you guessed it...
a) the fear of the number 13 termed paraskevidekatriaphobia
b) the fear of Fridays...
…makes sense doesn't it? ;)

A controversial new study suggests nearly 655,000 Iraqis have died because of the war, suggesting a far higher death toll than other estimates.

We've heard recent studies saying that the number was about 100,000 and another saying 50,000 and others suggesting about 150,000 but this new study is way higher than the previous ones.

Their conclusion is based on interviews of households and not a body count which suggests that about 600,000 died from violence, mostly gunfire and another 55,000 from unrelated events. However, they also found a small increase in deaths from other causes like heart disease and cancer.

I’ve been in touch with some young people from Lebanon and noticed that a lot of them have their own websites.
Diana Khouri, a young lady from Lebanon and a Waleg participant known as ‘dandoon’, has her own site at the age of 17.

I asked her why she decided to make her own site?

“Well, in order to show to my friends who I really am and what I like and dislike, my style of writing, the things that I’m interested in…my purpose of making it was to get fame! I gained a lot of friends throughout the net....and also to show to my friends how much Lebanon means to me…it’s my heart and my dream..” she said.