• Islam
• Egyptian History
• 2D/3D/Audio Applications
• Software & Information Technology
• Business, Management, and Marketing
• 3D & Art Galleries
• Books
• Comics
• My Favorite Music
• My Favorite Movies
• Misc

Islam: The art of living in harmony!!!
Know more about Islam and "The Book of Life" or "The Handbook of the Universe", the Holy Quran. It's simply like this: God created the world and us then gave us the "User's Manual" to live the right way, that is, the Quran. This is the only explanation for the miracles that we discover each day in the Islam Holy Book, the Quran.

• For Islam (Arabic / English)
  
  
• This Is Truth (English / Malaysian)
  Read astounding scientific facts which only through modern science has man discovered what was accurately described in the Muslim Holy Book and by the Prophet Muhammad 14 centuries ago!
  Too many facts to be coincidence in detail far beyond the scope of man and science of Prophet Muhammad's era (6th century C.E.)!
• http://www.islam-guide.com (Arabic / English / Spanish / Frensh / German / Japanese / Chinse / Italian / Russian / Norse / Estonian / Thai)
  
  
  
• http://www.islamway.com/mohammad/ (English / French / Deutsch / Italian / Spanish / Danish / Dutch / Russian / Swedish / Norwegian)
  Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah.
• http://www.islamhouse.com/file/rasool/ (Arabic / English / French / Russian, Soon: Danish / Spanish / Persian / Tagalog)
• http://www.RasoulAllah.net (Arabic / English / French / Italian / Spanish)
  
  
• Be Convinced: (English)
  Explore, discover, and be convinced. Never Judge a Religion by it's People, Judge a Religion by it's Scripture.
  
  
• http://www.IslamWeb.net (Arabic / English)
• http://www.IslamWay.com (Arabic / English / French / Dutch / Urdu)
• http://www.al-islam.com (Arabic / English / French / Dutch / Turkish / Melayu / Indonesia)
• http://quran.muslim-web.com (Arabic)
  Listen to Quran with the voices of 53 different recitors.
• Al Azhar Official Site (Arabic / English)
• Amr Khaled Official Web Site (Arabic)
• Mishary Rashed Web Site (Arabic)
• Sheikh Muhammad Jebril Web Site (Arabic/English)

Related Articles

• Medieval Muslims made stunning math breakthrough [Reuters | Yahoo! News]

Charity

• Resala

Egyptian History

• Eternal Egypt: A wonderful journey into Egyptian history (Arabic, English, French).
• Description de l’Egypte Digital Collection: From Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
• Pyramids - The Inside Story (NOVA Online).
• Khufu Pyramid: QuickTime VR 360 degrees view from the top.
• Secrets of Egypt (National Geographic).
• Explore Ancient Egypt
• Inside King Tut's Tomb (Discovery Channel).
• King Tutankhamun Tomb Discovery (Discovery Channel).
• Ancient Egypt: The Ancient Egyptian Culture Exhibit.

2D/3D/Audio Applications

• Autodesk: Known for 3ds Max, Maya, AutoCAD, and a lot more.
• Adobe Systems: The creators of Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, and a lot more.
• Corel Corporation: The creators of Corel Draw and WordPerfect Office, and owners of Painter, Bryce, and a lot more.
• Sonic Foundary: The creators of Sound Forge and a lot of other audio applications.
  
  
• OpenOffice.org: A free alternative for Microsoft's Office Suite.
  
  
• Photoshop: The industry-standard image editing and retouching tool.
• Corel Draw
• Painter
  
  
• 3ds Max
• Maya
• NewTek LightWave
• Softimage
• Vue
• Terragen
• form•Z: The 3D form synthesizer.
• Rhino 3D: NURBS modeling for Windows.

Software & Information Technology

• Microsoft Corporation
• Oracle
• Sun
  
  
• C/C++: From Bjarne Stroustrup, the designer and original implementor of C++.
• C/C++: The C++ Resource Network.
• Visual C#: Microsoft Visual C# Developer Center.
• Java
• Microsoft .NET Framework
• W3Schools: Free Web Building Tutorials.
• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• VB Script
• CGI
• ASP
• ASP.NET
• Perl
• WAP
• XML/XSL/DTD
• SOAP
• Adobe Flash

Business, Management, and Marketing

• Harvard Business Online: Business articles, books, and business management resources.
• QuickMBA
• META Group: Information technology market assessment firm.
• Aberdeen Group: Computer and communications market research and consulting organization.
• Marketing Teacher: For marketing learners

Art Galleries & Friends

• SamiStudio.com: Mohamed Sami, a talented illustrator, cartoonist, graphic designer, and photographer from Egypt.
• Mohamed Sami works on AmrKhaled.net
• Ahmed Khaled Artworks: A very talented artist.
• Salma Hassaballa: A director and 3D graphics designer from Egypt
• Mostafa Mahmoud Zaki: A talented 3D professional from Egypt



• Fenon.com: Online fine arts.
• Egypt3D.com: Egyptian 3D portal.

Books
I've gone through a lot of good books but I mention here what I consider to be "life-changing" books. The books that have the potential to drastically change one's life. I usually listen to audio books to make use of my commute, walking, or training time and because the retention from auido books is much better in my opinion, but there's always a print version of the same book.

• Body for Life by Bill Phillips: A way to transform the body and live better through training and nutrition.

Comics

• Dilbert Comic Strip: Stinging but funny comics about the corporate life and life in general by Scott Adams.
• NewsletterCartoons.com: Comics about the workplace by Ted Goff.

My Favorite Music
Some of my favorite music, comes after listening to Quran.

• Sayed Darwish (1892-1923): A brilliant music composer and song writer who deeply influenced the modern Egyptian music. I'm not a fan of him, but I do respect him because he expressed the pains and concerns of Egyptian community almost like no other.
• Ahmad Mounib: The late Ahmad Mounib was a pure voice from the land of gold. He was a Nubian folk musician whose songs carry a value and reflect the Nubian culture.
• Sha'ban Abd El Rehem: A folkloric Egyptian singer and one of the most controversial singers in the scene. Personally I do not listen to him, but I respect him because he is one of the very few Arab singers who really say something in their songs (most Egyptian and Arab singers sing only and repeatedly and solely and utterly about love between man and woman and nothing else regardless of the loads of problems and challenges their nation is going thorugh, and sing about other national subjects only when there's an occasion or event).
  
  
• David Arkenstone and Diane Arkenstone: Talented music composers who can take you to real and imaginary worlds.
• Angels of Venice: Beautiful ethereal music.
• Mehdi: Clear, energitic, relaxing, soothing, influencing.
• Mick Jagger: He's original!
• Guns N Roses: For the memory of the good old days!
• Blank & Jones: A smooth relaxing trance music that can take you to far worlds.
• Creed: Very deep and carefully scripted songs.
• Tracy Chapman: A singer and songwriter with a very clear and powerful voice.
• Enigma: Need I say more?
• Era: Ethereal, evocative, and enigmatic music.
• Roger Waters: His songs carry opinions, criticism, observations, and sometimes mockery.
• Pink Floyd: ...Pink Floyd!
• Metallica: A metal band that used to be good, but not anymore.
• The Beatles: One of the phenomena of the modern time. Their movie "The Yellow Submarine" is one of my favorites.
• Iron Maiden: The calssical heavy metal band.
• Medwyn Goodall: Music for dreamers.
• Hans Zimmer: Simply put: A genius. If you watched Gladiator then you already know his music.
• Loreena Mckennitt: Great celtic artist.
• Chris Rea: Have you ever seen anyone singing in dignity like this guy?
• Chris de Burgh: "The Storyman".
• Deep Forest: African enigmatic music.
• Oceania: New age music with their own style.
• Camel: Hear the wise man talking.
• Savatage: They don't only sing, but have something to say.
• Linkin Park: They are angry... very angry!
• The Cranberries: Deep words with nice music, still make you think.
• Tanita Tikaram: A deep warm voice with cultural diversity.
• Amethystium: As they describe themselves: Ranges from dreamy and relaxing, to more upbeat.
• Dream Theater: The right ingredient to complete the recipe.
• Tool: A sort of a test or R&D music lab that almost always comes out with strange but nice things.
  
  
• Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky (1840-93): A great music composer whose music is full of life, emotions, and vitality.

My Favorite Movies
Some of my favorite movies (based on the Arab world censored versions):

• The Message (Al Resala): A movie about the beginning of Islam and the great Prophet Mohammad sala Allah alayh wa salam.
• Al Naser Salah Al-Din (Saladin): About the great leader Salah Al-Din and the events in his time. An extraordinary masterpiece by Youssef Chahine with a great performance.
• Wa Islamah: A great historical feature film.
  
  
• Apollo 13: The true story of NASA's successful failure, the best crisis management in history.
• The Great Escape: Based on a true story from World War II.
• Gandhi: A biography of Gandhi, the great Indian leader.
• Rain Man: An outstanding performance by Dustin Hoffman, the movie was inspired by the phenomenal Kim Peek.
• Loretta Claiborne Story, The: The true story of Loretta Claiborne, the amazing championship athlete.
• March of the Penguins: Started as a documentary, and finished as a wonder.
• The Magnificent Seven: Tagline: They were seven - And they fought like seven hundred!
• The Guns of Navarone
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• Quo Vadis?: I just like Peter Ustinov!
• Cleopatra: A very rich historical movie about Queen Cleopatra of Egypt.
• The Godfather: A heavy weight trilogy by Francis Ford Coppola.
• Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927): A masterpiece, even with the technical limitations of that time.
• Metropolis (Osamu Tezuka, 2001): Althrough somehow borrows from Fritz Lang's Metropolis, still an original masterpiece.
• Modern Times (1936): A great comedy with a strong message by the genius actor, director, screenwriter, music composer, the Tramp, Charles Chaplin (a.k.a Charlie Chaplin).
• Monsieur Verdoux (1947): A brilliant black comdey by Charles Chaplin, for its shocking fact about our world: "wars, conflict, it's all business", and for its bitter moral: "one murder makes a villain, millions a hero, numbers sanctify".
  
  
• ...And Justice for All: The true face of justice
• Yellow Submarine: A wonderful cartoon adverture in strange worlds starring The Beatles.
• Star Wars (all episodes): Science fiction at its best.
• Labyrinth: Official Tagline: Where everything seems possible and nothing is what it seems.
• The Others: The idea is mind boggling. I was watching the movie from the other side!!!
• The Lord of the Rings (the trilogy): A rich epic and a technological achievement in the history of cinema.
• The Matrix (the trilogy): A turning point in the history of cinema. After the dust settles and explosions are over - whether the producers meant it or not - looking into the depths of the movie provides thought-provoking ideas about life, the universe, and even existance. The Matrix Reloaded (part 2) is the best in the trilogy.
• Huo Yuan Jia (a.k.a. Fearless): It's not only about martial arts!
  
  
• Pitch Black: Eerie captivating sci-fi.
  
  

Misc
Some places worth visiting:

• Elena Filatova and her journeys in the eerie world of Chernobyl dead zone.