Gossip Girl settles in Kuwait!!

For those of you whom haven't heard about “Gossip Girl Kuwait” it is basically a Facebook group created by a high school girl that appears to be anonymous. It was revealed that she wrote under the name of a fake Facebook account that inevitably got hacked, hoping that they might unveil her true identity to stop the gossip from leaking to the public. She writes about the latest gossip that has been going on in high schools around Kuwait. Posting the latest gossip in the form of a list, she would include the person’s full name, their school and a comment about this particular person. The comments she includes are basically “the gossip” and they’re marked by absolute harshness and cruelty. “The gossip” is not only severe but it’s also a bunch of made-up scandals; it’s extremely offensive and insulting to the victims of those rumors. I find it completely foolish and immature to spread ruthless scandals to the public that are all untrue. The scandals spread widely all over Kuwait that even though I had no Facebook account I still received “the gossip” she posted on her group as a broadcast in my Blackberry. It’s really obvious that this girl is an avid fan of the hit TV series Gossip Girl. Is it not fascinating how a TV series led this girl to start her own replica of a gossip blog, yet in her case it’s a Facebook group! While she chuckles on her own, thinking that the peoples’ grudge will not get her, she is actually destroying the reputation of many. How big of an impact did a single TV series have on, literally, the majority of Kuwait’s adolescents? Quite big is what I have to say! Link

The Smartest Kid Alive is Egyptian!!

It was such a shock for me to know that an 11 year young boy has an IQ of 155, let alone being from the Middle East. This 11 year young boy is the smartest kid alive, according to the AlJareeda newspaper. His name is Mahmud Wael and he is from Egypt. His intelligence was first discovered by his father, when he was at the age of 3. It all began when once Mahmud’s older sister was studying the times table with her father while he was seated next to them minding his own business. And at the moment when his father asked his sister a multiplication question, he instantaneously shouted out the answer, before she even uttered a word. The words he uttered literally staggered his father, I mean who wouldn’t be surprised to hear his own 3 year old child solve a multiplication question and it’s not even addition! As soon as his intelligence was discovered by his parents their attention was all pointed towards him. At the age of 5, he was invited by a well-known Egyptian anchor’s, Mufeed Fawzi, show called “Hadeeth Al Madina” and this was his first appearance on national TV. Upon his first appearance on TV, his fame gushed all over the Arab world. I was researching the name of this kid on the internet and I found several articles and posts about him, all of which are Arab based blogs or websites. It gave me doubt on whether this kid is “the smartest kid alive” because I found no single non-Arab source that validates this information. It is either that the media in the outside world doesn’t want to admit that the smartest kid alive is an Arab or that the media in the Arab world over-exaggerate the matter of this kid’s intelligence. It is evident that there's certainly clashed information on who could be the youngest genius alive.