It is not always about what you read, but how you read.

لهذا عدد الكتب اللي قريتهن وشنو هي الكتب اللي قريتهن، مو بأهمية العقلية اللي قريتهن بيها.

This was the result of a conversation with a friend. Afterwards, I found out that Roland Barthes had a similar idea, he called it the Readerly vs Writerly text:

The Readerly text (French: lisible) is passive, it merely requires the reader to absorb and to simply—and metaphorically—listen to whatever the writer says.
The Writerly text (French: scriptible), on the contrary, demands the reader's effort to "co-author" the text with the writer. Reading such a text is always an active, creative process.

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Also, on a totally unrelated note: being a "reader" is not a job, nor something to be proud of. It's like being proud for being a "car driver" or a "grocery buyer." It's a basic human skill, go find a life.

Although it may be natural to assume that the sensations associated with injurious stimuli [pain] arise from excessive stimulation of the same receptors that generate other somatic sensations (like touch and vibration), this is not the case.

The doctor,
By Sir Luke Fildes

تفتح ويكيبيديا العربية تلكاهم رح يغلقوها 24 ساعة إحتجاج علمود غزة

تفتح ويكيبيديا الإنكليزية كلشي ماكو

زين رب الحلو، همة العرب أصلًا متضامنين وية غزة.
غير المفروض تغلقون الإنكليزية؟ لو هي بس شكليات وچذب؟

اللي داشوفه حاليًا مما يسمى بـ "دعم القضية الفلسطينية" بالسوشيل ميديا (خاصة بحالة مثل ويكيبيديا العربية) هو بهواي مرات وبالدرجة الأساس moral advertising يسويه الـ public figure حتى يبيّن للآخر أنّه شخص (أو مؤسسة) "جيد" وينصر الحق ويرفض الظلم.

Moral advertising (n.)
The individual advertises his or her own moral righteousness. They signal to the other, and to the society, that they are moral characters and deeply care for justice and goodness.

Politicians and public figures do that a lot. But with the advent of social media, we all became more or less public figures and thus we all started to feel the need to advertise for our moral character.

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We're at this point at night for songs and melancholy

Latin: quando etiam sapientibus gloriae cupido novissima excuitut

English: since the lust for fame is the last thing even the wise are able to rid themselves of

حتى بالنسبةِ للحكماء، فإنّ الشَوقَ للشُهرة هو آخرُ ما يَتَخلّص منه المَرء.