The World of Amany: Egypt in Her Eyes

A girl with hope to see Egypt in the best place...

[shit-arch-students-say]

People shouldn’t be allowed to have fun near studio

Overhead in studio (via shit-arch-students-say)

[abuildingaday]

Cenotaph for Newton

Etienne-Louis Boullée

1784

Architecture, Essay on Art

[exploring-in-space]

When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like to believe that architecture connects the present with the past and the tangible with the intangible.

Richard Meier

I love architecture so much, it’s unreal.

(via exploring-in-space)

[lifeofanarchizombie]

When you head out of town for a studio site visit.

[archistudent]

The truth about our obsession with wearing black.

[lifeofanarchizombie]

Late night final model building.

[lifeofanarchizombie]

When you leave the comfort of the architecture building and walk through campus.

[lifeofanarchizombie]

When you catch yourself in the midst of a babbling presentation.

[architortureschool]

when you realize the working world of architecture is nothing like architecture school

[lifeofan-architecturestudent]

by rougerhythm

[buzzfeed]

Casual reminder that Minions actively seek out the most evil being on the planet to serve.

[doniatamany]

It’s been a while hasn’t it....

[doniatamany]

I struck up a conversation with him, and he casually mentioned that he was having trouble adjusting to Columbia, due to his "previous situation." So I asked him to elaborate. "I was born in Egypt," he said. "I worked on a farm until 3rd grade with no education. I came to the US for one year, started 4th grade, but was pulled out because my father couldn't find work and returned to Egypt for a year. The first time I went to an actual school was middle school, but the whole school was in one classroom, and I was working as a delivery boy to help the family. It was illegal for me to be working that young, but I did. When I finally got into high school, my house burned down. We moved into a Red Cross Shelter, and the only way we could live there is if we all worked as volunteers. I got through high school by watching every single video on Khan Academy, and teaching myself everything that I had missed during the last nine years. Eventually I got into Queens College. I went there for two years and I just now transferred to Columbia on a scholarship provided by the New York Housing Association for people who live in the projects. It's intimidating, because everyone else who goes to Columbia went to the best schools, and have had the best education their entire lives."

[doniatamany]

When you see this it hits you that it is real. This is my friend, my butterfly, Fajr Abdelnacer, and the man she's hugging is her father. Her father that was murdered in cold blood during the Massacre in Rabaa. He was not a terrorist, he was not a thug. He was a beautiful ma, who was out standinf up for what he personally believes is right! Tell me know, why should Fajr, her sisters, and her mother be left without him? Why?

It was real. People really did die. New Pain was created for new families all across Egypt. Since when have we become so cold? What A shame...

[fa-tubalilghuraba]

A Syrian child’s tears that will break your heart. Share this so the world can see how our innocent children are treated… may Allaah ﷻ be with them!

[versxcehijxbi]

May Allah protect them.

[visualizefreedom-deactivated201]

Ameen

[love-that-neverdies]

Ameen

[doniatamany]

;( oh Allah you are the greatest bring down those who hurt your innocent creations!!

[doniatamany]

It's Not Too Late

"No it's too late for us; we have to wait for the upcoming generation to change Egypt properly..."

  A statement I heard recently and I can’t describe how shocked I was to here this from a young man barely in his mid-twenties. Honestly I don’t know who and what to blame, or even what to think about this. I could just say this is one person and the way they think and walk away. But no, this one young man resembles many of our youth in Egypt. This is wrong. VERY wrong actually!

We as youth, this generation. We are the generation that will set Egypt to the proper place where it needs to be. The generations after us will just follow our steps; we are the ones that must give up our lives to set it right, to raise it high, and to learn to be “free” to teach how to be “free.”We are the ones that will place the proper government; we are the ones that will clean our street, language and even our outlook on life. WE are the generation that must change, AND it’s not too late!

Thinking its late is closed-minded and for people that are people who are looking for change, for the youth who are dreaming that they’re children live a better life than they did, you’re gonna have to open your minds, role up your sleeves and work for it. If you don’t work for it, it will never come, and no one else will either.

[doniatamany]

You must understand the depths of the past, to understand the reasons of the present, and to understand how to fix the future....