For those of you who don't know it, it was illegal to eat ice cream under the Taliban.

It's because, without leaving your armchair, you can simulate that flavor and say yuck before you make it.

And I was taken to the secret ice cream eating place in a little town, where we went to a back room, and women were seated and a curtain was pulled around us, and they were served vanilla ice cream.

And women lifted their burqas and ate this ice cream, and I don't think I ever understood pleasure until that moment, and how women have found a way to keep their pleasure alive.

We believe that with Kareem still in prison many youth writers, human rights activists, and even just mere students interested in free speech will take this message as a threat.

Internews International

Kareem Amer

Karim writes

Ice cream.

This man is very generous.

Karim Masoud responds

Do you have any sunscreen?

Ramadan Kareem from Tammam Azzam

Generous with emerging writers.

And finally, a heart warming post from Abu Kareem, that leaves us, like him in a state of inner peace...

Neither cool nor agreeable .

Which is neither cool nor is for respect .

neither cool , neither goodly

Neither cool nor pleasant .

( That shadow ) neither cool , nor ( even ) good ,

Neither cool , nor refreshing .

which will neither be cool nor soothing .

Neither cool nor refreshing .

neither cool nor beneficial .

neither cool nor good .

Neither cool nor beneficial .

neither cold nor graceful in shape .

Neither cool nor honorable .

neither cool nor refreshing .

Nothing ( will there be ) to refresh , nor to please

For Syrian Kareem Lailah, the dream is a personal one

Karim Arabji is a beautiful friend.

The president is the head of state.

And fields and stately mansions ,

And fields and grand palaces !

sown fields , and how noble a station ,

And cornfields and goodly positions .

And green crops ( fields etc . ) and goodly places ,

And plantations , and splendid buildings .

and sown fields and splendid mansions ,

And the cornlands and the goodly sites

Fields and splendid places ,

and sown fields , fine sitting places ,

And crops and noble sites

corn fields , gracious mansions ,