And Why You Shouldn’t Either — I love Wikipedia. I absolutely love it. It’s helped me through so many areas of my life, so I proclaim my love for it without reservation. It’s helped me with my studies in secondary school, it kept helping me academically in university, and it helps me nowadays professionally. In fact…

The Ethics of Brain Death Diagnoses — “Brain death is final. It’s irreversible.” “What about people who say brain dead folks recovered before?” “Can’t happen by definition. Brain death is irreversible. If brain activity commences after a period of inactivity, then clearly it wasn’t brain death.” “So it’s a misdiagnosis?” “Yeah.” “Even though doctors fulfilled all the…

In Past, Present, and Before God — In the earliest days of Islam, marriage was theologically simpler. The theological rules of marriage were built on the religious viability of natural, existing, pre-Islamic relationships. They were uniform codifications of the rights, responsibilities, and social consideration for each party to a marriage in…

South Sinai’s Premier Animal Activist — An Insider Story — A little over a year ago, at the end of February 2020, Anne Johnson — known to us; her friends, acquaintances, and fellow animal welfare activists in Egypt as “Janet Johnson” — was found dead under suspicious circumstances. Janet ran a unique, largely outdoor/partly indoor animal sanctuary on the outskirts…

This is a serial novel. To view Chapter Five visit: https://abdallahalalfy.medium.com/phonecall-from-heaven-chapter-five-b3ab35a2cd53 By the time Joshua had arrived Laura had already gotten a table and was sitting with a mug in front of her. She smiled as she spotted Lake rolling up to the table looking left and right about him…

This is a serial novel. To view Chapter Four visit: https://abdallahalalfy.medium.com/phonecall-from-heaven-chapter-four-db7ef68d1745 By the time his cab had rolled up to the hospital gate it was already getting on in the day. The hassle from that junky-mugger incident had taken quite a bit of time and the traffic had been irritatingly…

*Trigger Warning: Violence, Murder, Etc* In our dreams, we visit many places. Some of us anyway. And dreams come in many forms. There are dreams we don’t realise we’re dreaming, and then lucid dreams. Dreams that we know are dreams. A subtype of lucid dreams are dreams we can control…

A guide to Search Engine Optimisation for Writers — If you’re earning a living from writing, or you’re attempting to, or even just flirting with the idea, the odds are you’ve come across this phrase before. Search Engine Optimisation. The odds are you’ve also read the abbreviation for that phrase: SEO. Whether you’re slinging copy, boosting traffic on your…

This is a serial novel. To view Chapter Three visit: https://abdallahalalfy.medium.com/phonecall-from-heaven-chapter-three-4d872f6b0d8a Looking around him he could see that Chinatown was changing. It wasn’t the place he remembered 20 years ago as a kid. It hit him that at some point of most people’s lives, they swear they’ll never forget certain…