Amjad, if you spoke with a person from Egypt.  Could you understand them?  Is Egyptian arabic understood all over the Arabic speaking world?

I like spicy food a lot.  Most spicy thing was an Indian dish called a Phaal.  Too hot for me.  

Brief in this case means 'short'. "Napster's short, if notorious life" would work as well.

It's not something I've heard before. What sort of context would you use it?

I think because the world is much more connected, that it appears more dangerous. These days, we're surrounded by every imaginable news service 24x7 which amplifies the intensity of world events.

I was watching an interview the other week with the actor Stephen Fry, who was saying that he read that the time of the internets' fruition that it would be a great invention for all of humanity - but in his opinion it has in many cases just brought out the worst aspects of human nature and "opened a  Pandora's box" of the worst aspects of the human condition.

It's acting, of that there is no doubt. Why? Simply because you can't bet on the outcome at a sports bookmaker. 

It's entertaining though, especially for younger kids and adults who have stayed interested in it for a while 

I managed 10 minutes. But I noticed that I died in the process #smh