زين الدين زيدان ونهاية أسطورة البطل العربي في برلين

Dear Ms Sara Issa
I follow what you write in “sudanile” and sometime in “sudaneseonline”.
I
have to say that I agree with most of what you write especially in the
issue
of the lack of our ability as Sudanese to address our problems in
honest and
coherent way. Compared to some of what I read now a day, you by far
fairly
organised in laying down your ideas and delivering your argument. Even
when
you go into some of the senseless quarrel in Sudaneseonline, you do it
in a
positive way, the least can be said about the others.

I have read your last article about the French Player Zidane. However,
I
agree with most of the article theme about the Arab way of thinking
when it
comes to bride, personality, self-image and ego. I would to draw your
attention to the following:

1) Zidane is not an Arab; he is from Al-Kabyles, i.e. a Berber.
2) Zidane was born in Marseille, in one of the most deprived housing
projects of mainly second generation Algerian. His action/actions says
a lot
about his upbringing, nurture, etc. rather than his ethnicity. He has
been
in trouble with policy/authorities all his childhood.
3) In his career Zidane managed more than 14 Red Card, which says a lot
about his own character rather than his origin.
4) When he “stepped on” a Saudi Arabian player, Algerian kids cheered
him in
the street of Marseille as according to them a “bad Arab had it”.
5) Roamers had it that his father was a “French Collaborator”, which
led him
to continuously defending his father and in that matter himself.
Feeling of
quilt sometime led to violent reaction.

In conclusion, I can say what you have wrote about the Arab way of
thinking
is true and “we” do not need Zidane Red card to be reminded of, but
using
Zidane as the subject of the article was not correct.

Regards
PS: I will be really happy if you can post this message in the
dicussion
board as I could not do that.