And whenever death arrives, with its many reasons, I ask myself, Why am I surprised? Then I value life anew for a few days.

I continue to ask myself, Why?

Ever since, I have wondered whether I was right or wrong.

So right here I start with the visual, and I immediately ask the question Which section is the steepest?

And especially, you know, as a small brown woman in a little college, in the upper northwest part of our country, far away from the areas of power and money, I really have to ask myself, What can I do about this?

So it turns out I'm sort of getting ahead of myself.

I wouldn't have qualified as transgender.

When I was visiting my terminally ill father in a hospital, I was asking myself, how does anybody get well in a place that sounds like this?

It's a symbolic gesture. I tear up the script, I go and I panic myself, I get scared.

I was asking girls if they like being a girl, and all the girls were like, No, I hate it. I can't stand it.

I'm controlling myself not to lose my head.

In short, I felt what the people of Gaza feel, may Allah be of help to them.

We put these two photographs side by side on our website, and someone said, When I look at the first photo, I ask myself, what was he thinking?

And what that means is that I no longer overload myself gratuitously.

And then I ask myself, shouldn't the predominant nationality of the victims be a factor to take into consideration? This occurred on Latino Night in the nightclub Pulse.

I'm a psychologist, but rest assured, I will not bring it to the scrotal.

I looked at myself in the mirror and I didn't like what I saw.

Now, I was paid in dollars as a consultant, and I looked at my income tax return and tried to ask myself Is there a line in my return, which shows how much of this income has gone to the people whose knowledge has made it possible?

And I thought, Well, sir, I am not a strategist, nor am I specialist. I am merely a storyteller.

I daydreamed like I did as a little girl and I imagined myself walking gracefully, helping other people through my journey and snowboarding again.

And as I grow in life, I would say to myself, My God, what's wrong with me?

I would like to ask a question.

Meanwhile, I ask

No sit or stop, as I reach for the top I'm fully dedicated like a patriotic cop.

And finally Noha commented on The Arabist's Post saying I m veiled, and I can t stop them nor can I protect myself.

I went down. I go, Where's my son?

But after watching it for an episode or two, I found myself following it.

I know because I've been shot down so many times I get altitude sickness just from standing up for myself.

Kim Badawi (KB) Being a cultural hybrid myself, I have worked in the past closely within cross cultural subjects.

And the strange thing is, when I watch the film I have the eerie sensation of seeing it I saw myself literally disappear.

When I was 19, I wrote, I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.

Yet still, I refer to myself as an Arab. I am a Syrian as a conscious and voluntary decision in a world which defines you based on something called a 'passport'.

When I ask people What's wrong with having a conversation?

May I ask where are you going?

May I ask where are you going?

Why are you doing this, if I may ask?

Say I do not ask any compensation of you for it , nor am I a specious pretender .

Say ( O dear Prophet Mohammed peace and blessings be upon him ) I do not ask any fee from you for the Qur an , and I am not a fabricator .

Say ' I ask of you no wage for it , neither am I of those who take things upon themselves .

Say thou ask of you for it no hire , nor am I of the affecters .

Say ( O Muhammad SAW ) No wage do I ask of you for this ( the Quran ) , nor am I one of the Mutakallifun ( those who pretend and fabricate things which do not exist ) .

Say , I ask of you no wage for this , and I am not a pretender .

( O Prophet ) , tell them I do not ask you for any recompense for the performance of this task nor am I given to affectation .

Say ( O Muhammad , unto mankind ) I ask of you no fee for this , and I am no simulating .

Say , I do not ask you any reward for it , and I am no impostor .