Today I'm 34. It's been an unusual day by all means. A friend of mine offered to read into my future using her "Oracle Cards" as she calls them. I learned that I will not live long enough to see Morocco organize a World Cup but maybe long enough to see the country win one at last. That's a good consolation but I doubt my friend is as good a psychic as octopus Paul proved to be. I shockingly found myself craving to hear some Vuvuzella, which is kind of weird. But I seriously want to hear just one last little blow. Thank God YouTube have not yet removed that little sweet button. Congratulations to Spain for deservingly winning the cup; to South Africa for a successful tournament; to Ghana for making us Africans all very proud. I invited friends over to eat some seafood tonight à la Chilean with some Pisco sour and Concha Y Torro white wine.
34 years man! Hopefully next year I will have moved back to Morocco.
BIO
Hi! My name is Hisham Almiraat. I’m from Morocco. I’m a medical doctor by trade and occasional blogger.
I quit smoking after medical school. Now hooked on caffein and Twitter.
An ultra-naïve humanist, I deeply mistrust religion and power and I spend my time daydreaming of a secular, liberal democracy at home.
I'm passionate about freedom of expression and thought which I consider to be the most fundamental of our rights.
In pursuit of defending these rights I am and was involved with a couple of projects:
I'm the former advocacy director at Global Voices Online and co-founder of Mamfakinch.com and TalkMorocco.net -- award-wining platforms that advocate for and encourage freedom of expression.
I am the recent founder of the Moroccan Association for Digital Rights.
I try photography from time to time and do some graphic design and artwork, though I still have a lot to learn in that department... and in everything else for that matter.
You can email me at hisham [at] riseup [dot] net
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