My Great Grandfather

Yesterday our family got a phone call, delivering the news that my great grandfather, as in my grandfathers father, had passed away at the age of 103. I joined in with his prayer, witnessed his burial and sat in his funeral.

He had lived for the last years of his life with his eldest daughter, who had devoted her life to taking care of him.

I am his eldest great grandchild, and he had brought up eleven children, who then brought him forty four grandchildren. In the last three days of his life, he would wake up in the middle of night and call his daughter, and would tell her he had dreamed of being with Allah.

He had surprisingly lived a very long life, thanks to god, as very little people these days live to see themselves enter the triple figures. In fact, my great grandfather witnessed many historical events since his birth in the entire decade he had lived. The two World Wars, the occupation of Palestine, and the two Intifadas, to name a few.

He also had to witness the death of half of his own children, but now he can at last join them once again. May God rest his soul, allah yir7amo.

Beaten To Death By His Teacher

And you thought it would never come.

Apparently, a boy in Alexandria, around eleven years old was beaten to death by his teacher. This was a punishment for not completing his homework.

The fool of a teacher beat the boy until he fainted, was then taken to the hospital where he suffered from heart failure and later died.

Although these cases are rather rare these days, they still do occur.

An Egyptian teacher at a primary school in Alexandria is alleged to have beaten an 11-year-old pupil to death.

The maths teacher, Haitham Nabeel Abdelhamid, who worked at Saad Othman school, was furious because Islam Amro had not finished his homework.

After using a ruler to punish him, the teacher is alleged to have taken the young boy outside the classroom and hit him violently in his stomach.

The young pupil fainted and later died in hospital of heart failure.

He was taken from the school to hospital but suffered a sharp drop in blood pressure and heart failure.

The teacher is reported by Egyptian newspaper Al Masry Alyoum to have told the prosecutor that he was only trying to "discipline the boy, not to kill him".

Mr Abdelhamid was remanded in custody on manslaughter charges.