House of Curiosity...

Eid is here!
Eid brings many thoughts about the way we celebrate it in this part of the world.
Usually, my dad goes to Salat al Eid with my uncles. And as soon as they finish, they start what I call “the door to door ritual.” This involves strong coffee with cardamom and ka3k il eid dates cookies… [...]

This post was suggested by Rana…
I quite often find myself being swayed into situations where I did not want to be in the first place, simply because I did not know how to say ‘NO’. As a matter of fact, I am so bad at saying no, that I looked into my dictionary recently only [...]

September 11 is one day that everyone remembers exactly where they were.
I was in Germany at the time. I was attending an overnight meeting in a chateau that belonged to the bank I worked with. We were in a very serious meeting when someone barged in with the news… our bank had an office in [...]

Special thanks to Ruba O. who was generous in helping find information for this post
One of the most awaited traditions of Ramadan is the late night tents. During Ramadan Amman buzzes with unusual activity after Salat Al taraweeh… people meet to socialise, to watch the musalsalat while smoking shisha and having Arabic coffee, tea, qamar al [...]

Grizzly was entertaining me with some anecdotes, including incidents that took place during Salat Al Tarawee7.  As he was praying a few days ago, the man beside him did not take a breath between saying Al Salam Alaikum (an indication of the end of the prayer) and shouting at the kids who were playing, running around, [...]

Most men fall into two categories: those who still have not broken the “emotional umbilical cord” that attaches them to their mothers and those who have. It almost seems like most Jordanian men belong to the first category… I don’t have to look much further than my own family.
My grandmother, a tiny ferocious woman, is [...]