Wael Almahdi

CODE SWITCHER Homie, I’m a code switcher Rule ditcher, verse pitcher They call me the glossary enricher Word stitcher, poetic bewitcher When I pen my letters, they say I’m quite lettered A vocab trend setter, unchained, untethered I say it better, while you stutter and dither I can’t be bettered, semantically unfettered! I encode the [...]

الوعي باللاوعي:  نظرة شخصية إلى أفكار كارل يونغ الجزء الأول وائل المهدي مقدمة تتناول هذه الوريقات القصيرة أفكار العالم كارل يونغ الرئيسية، وخصوصاً أفكاره كما يمكن تطبيقها في فهم الأدب  من ناحية، والنظر إلى الأحداث العامة من ناحية أخرى، وليس فقط من ناحية الصحة أو المرض النفسييَن.  يجب أن ألفت نظر القارئ أولاً إلى أنني [...]

      By Wael Al-Mahdi (2011) “The Jinn are dead.” Much has been made of Nietzsche’s “God is dead” statement, with people misunderstanding it more often than not.  Many have taken it as a direct affront on God, a lèse majesté, a statement of vile, filthy godlessness, and also as a call for all [...]

By Wael Al-Mahdi (2011) “There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.” –Albert Camus Here’s  a maddening thought:  as we speak, there are obscure psychological processes going on in your mind the nature of which is completely mysterious to you.  In our age of scientific certainty, this is what is most irritating about [...]

Wael Al-Mahdi (2011) وائل المهدي “Truth is what you have to sacrifice the most for” In a time of social and psychic derangement, where the individual as well as society are crushed by unknown inner forces, there is nothing for the thinking man to do but to vivisect pieces of his living self, stuff them [...]