Saturday, June 25, 2011

Ahmad Al-Arabiy #1 (Pilot)

Ahmad Al-Arabiy had given up on love; Trends was to be his mistress. And so it was that in the summer of 1999, he took a chance to be if not the best Arabian trends analyst, then certainly one that would make the world sit up and take notice. To accept this he started moving around until he reached a city in southern Europe called Condolousia. A beautiful city on the cost of the librarian peninsula right on the cape between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. A city that was conquered be the Muslims and Arabs in the medieval time and was under their control for hundreds of years. Ahmad took a ship moving from the Alexandria in Egypt to reach this city. Condolousia was a city of unimaginable wealth it had lights of Paris, buildings of Chicago, parks of New York, and beaches of Cancun. It was the Havens on Earth. Ahmad found himself on the huge ship seated next to a man called Osama Bin Ladend, a man who had the uncanny ability to make a half-hour subway ride seem like ten. Ahmad started a conversation with Osama “so you’re going to Condolousia ha!!” Bin Laden replied “I’ve been summering in Condolousia since I was a boy; it would be my second home if I didn’t own three others”. Bin Laden was a tall handsome young man in his early 20s, dirty look beard and moustache cool spike heir, and he was wearing an Armani Jeans with a Roberto Cavalli shirt and Gucci shoes. Tanned, wearing a Bvlgari bracelet and a shark tooth nickels. “And what about you? What are you going to do there in Condolousia?” Bin Laden Asked. Ahmad replied “where ever the wend take me, I am a researcher who is seeking knowledge and I have nothing to do except looking for different sources and different opinions”. “What exactly are you looking for, people are not what you are looking for in Condolousia.” Osama asked. Ahmad with a wired look on his face answered him “I want to find the best sources written by Condolousian researcher. Bin Laden stood up with a smile on his face that shows his perfect white teeth “would you care to join me for a Sheashe in the smoking room?” Ahmad was board and instead of continuing to read The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story by Michael Lewis he said "all right". It was obvious that Ahmad & Osama lived different lives, everyone came from the same city but, there people were so different. They kept asking each other about people that they know until Ahmad started talking about the company he worked in 6 years ago. Bin Laden Started bragging about knowing the VPs of the company “I went to school with most of your VPs sons, I was in Al-Basha’s beach house last week, and all of them were there”. Al-Basha, is a well-known family in the city both Ahmed and Osama are from, basically own everything, from electricity, telephone companies, food and water. Ahmed listened while Osama kept bragging about where he has been and who he knows and had an idea. He acted like he was so interested and enjoying each story Osama told him.



Note: this is a fiction story with a twist, people, places and events does not exist. I might use famous names but not real characters.


The word (Trends) in the first paragraph can be changed to any other word. In other words; What is Ahmed Al-Arabiy's motion in life? What do you recommend?