Perihane Allam

على هذه الارض ما يستحق الحياة..On this earth what makes life worth living.. Am seeing the Nations through the people's eyes

[WelBeast @WelBeast]

The game is rigged.

[KALYJAY @gyaigyimii]

Retweet this for the world to see what Africa is fighting against. We were robbed

[fan @NoodleHairCR7]

It was this moment Mo Salah realized they have rigged it for Argentina 💔

[Mohamad-محمّد @aljobouri99]

في لقطة ماكليستر ضرب فيها تريزيجيه ب ايده جوا منطقة الجزاء ما حدا شافها ولا رجعلها
ضرب امام على وشه بدون كرة
ضربة جزاء صلاح نفسه الفاول الي لغى عليه الجول
تعريص مقرف

[Perihane Allam @PerihaneAllam]

How is that even rational?!

[Dr Yash  @YashRMFC]

11 fouls but not a single card, lmao.

[REAL MIL GRAU @realmilgrauu]

Impressionante como os juízes ficam cegos em dias de jogos da Argentina

kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

[KALYJAY @gyaigyimii]

When Argentina commit a foul before a goal , VAR doesn’t check

When opponents commit a foul before they score against Argentina, VAR is quick to work.

We see it

[Joon Lee @joonlee]

I defend VAR more than most but taking away that Egypt goal because of something that happened on the other side of the pitch is INSANE

[Timothy E Kaldas @tekaldas]

This ref was so clearly biased. Did Millei and Trump hire him?

[CaughtOffside @caughtoffside]

78' Argentina 0-2 Egypt
79' Argentina 1-2 Egypt
83' Argentina 2-2 Egypt
90+2' Argentina 3-2 Egypt

ONE OF THE BEST WORLD CUP GAMES EVER!!!

[𝐟𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐯 @heis_fede]

NO FOUL. FOUL😂😂😂

[WelBeast @WelBeast]

I fxcking hate FIFA man. Why are they robbing Egypt of a legitimate goal?

[Mohamed A. El-Erian @elerianm]

Congrats to Argentina.
While Egypt will understandably feel robbed by the officiating—and are rightfully frustrated and angry—they should stand incredibly proud. They played their hearts out, delivered moments of pure magic, and earned the admiration of millions worldwide.
Personally, I am absolutely devastated by the outcome. Yet I'm in absolute awe of this team's courage and dedication.
#egypt #argentina #worldcup @FIFAWorldCup @FIFAcom @fifacom_ar

[Nesrine Malik @NesrineMalik]

Most heartbreaking game in history.

[Perihane Allam @PerihaneAllam]

hat a performance Cape Verde…EXCEPTIONAL!!! #WorldCup2026

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

[Mariana Baabar @MarianaBaabar]

RIP
What a great loss.

[Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany]

Today, in Washington, DC, we came together to share in the unfathomable pain of saying goodbye to @MuzanAlneel and @HamidMurtada. We read their writings. We shared their stories. We honored their dreams.

The loss is beyond words, but we gather in the solidarity they modeled. 🤍

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

A nun was assaulted in occupied East Jerusalem earlier this week amid growing concern over Israeli attacks against Christians.

The 48-year-old, a researcher at Jerusalem’s French School of Biblical and Archaeological Research, was attacked on Tuesday in front of the Cenacle, a site on Mount Zion regarded as holy by both Christians and Jews.

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which is affiliated with the nun’s research centre, said the attack was “not an isolated incident, but part of a troubling pattern of rising hostility toward the Christian community and its symbols”.

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

Five years ago today, I took these photos of one of our lemon trees in Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza.

Two and a half years have passed since our home was bombed by Israel and reduced to rubble. For just as long, no one has watered the trees or tended the garden. The lemon tree, along with the oranges, olives, mangoes, peaches, eggplants, and so much else we grew, did not survive the terrorist Israeli attack.

And yet, the sun has never stopped shining. Every day, it rises as if still searching for those trees, for the life that once filled that garden.

That is what I choose to remember when I think of home: not the ruins resting over my books and clothes, but the light, the growth, and the garden that once lived there.