From David Anthony Hohol… “Don’t worry, Fatimah,” my father said, stroking my tear stained cheek.          “They’re only moving us to another location, Habibi.”             Even at the age of eleven, I knew it wasn’t the truth. Even more so, I knew my father didn’t trust them for a minute, but he did his [...]

From David Anthony Hohol… Of all my memories of Christmas past, the most magical was a personal and very private moment in time. It was 1978 and I was an independent-minded eight-year old boy, who’d already seen much of the country. My family recently made another unexpected move, taking me away from yet another school [...]

From David Anthony Hohol… Social networking tools as they exist today are changing how we think, work, learn and live. As during the last great split from the normative causalities of daily life illustrated during the Industrial Revolution, the entire template for daily living has been scrapped and replaced with a newly forming organic prototype. [...]

From David Anthony Hohol… I’ve traveled a great deal in my lifetime. Crossing the borders of nearly 50 countries, I’ve managed to take in several shining splinters of the world and I am a better man for it. Those who know me often ask if there was ever a time during my global crusade of [...]

From David Anthony Hohol… Dr. Samuel Johnson once said, “He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.” I wonder what he would have thought of one Mommar Gadhafi. The final images of Gadhafi being dragged through the streets, covered in blood, beaten, kicked, spat upon, and sodomized, [...]

From David Anthony Hohol… Pulitzer prize winning author and reporter Chris Hedges paid Canada’s CBC a visit to discuss the Occupy Wall Street Movement currently unfolding across the United States. Host Kevin O’Leary, apparently without any intelligent questions for his guest, first opened by insulting those in the movement and then moved on to insulting [...]

From David Anthony Hohol… The majority of us will work throughout our adult lives, consuming our days for years on end with the noble efforts of our chosen vocations. An unfortunate reality of living in today’s world is that many of us will spend our most alert hours and best years within the confines of [...]

From David Anthony Hohol… Over the weekend the global news story was no doubt Palestine’s submission for statehood to the UN. Barack Obama conceded the critical nature of this issue way back in March 2009, when in Cairo he called for a halt on all settlement activity. In May of the same year, Obama asserted [...]

From David Anthony Hohol… Riding my trusted horse over the rolling plains always made me feel free and comforted me when thinking of the reason for my journey. An open horizon, a setting sun and a dancing hay field; the air was warm, familiar and hospitable. A purple hew of color splashed itself across the [...]

From David Anthony Hohol… Rape and assault or promiscuity and prostitution – this is the common two-pronged argument used by some Saudis to justify their law that prohibits women from driving. What happens if a car breaks down and a woman is alone? She could get assaulted and raped. Being out alone without a man [...]