House of Curiosity...

T. was explaining to me how he is worried that his girlfriend’s parents might not like him… and refuse him as a suitor for their daughter.  I asked him not to worry, because they will never embarrass him or his parents. He explained that when parents don’t like the groom, they ask him for a [...]

Last week, I was hanging  out with my friends from 7iber in a conference they were organizing. And since I was not involved, I could enjoy sitting back and observing.  That conference was attended by young people from 15 Arab countries.  
I was extremely impressed by the 7 young women and 3 young men who [...]

  It took me a long time to convince Um Yazan to write about her problem.  She finally did.  You can read the article on 7iber.
I came across this lady in one of the lectures that have been organized through the project Citizen in my City project, in one of the local communities. I won’t mention [...]

 I think I would like to be a teacher.
It is usually a pleasure to talk to schools kids. They are smart, funny and honest….this statement comes as a result of the workshop I was asked to give about violence in schools. The whole thing was organized by one of the workers that support us [...]

No, this is not the wailing of a delirious woman… in fact, this was a perfectly calm conversation taking place at a flawlessly respectable place in Amman, while Diala  and I were staring at the hills of Ashrafiah shimmering in the velvety sunset.
 
I have been begging Diala (an assumed name) to go out for [...]

 This has been on my mind for a while… a few months really. But I suppose I decided to write about it, after my meeting at Sahab. ( I never know when to use at and when to use in)

I had a workshop that revolved around creating a community center there.  The discussion went into [...]

As I was listening to our beloved Nancy Ajram.. I heard a song that made me think of a conversation I had with my mother (among all people you would think about when you hear Nancy!) the song was saying that it is 7aram he betrays her trust… and if this was love then God [...]

All the comments from the previous blog, left me unsettled thinking for the last couple of days whether we really are a violent nation… at the beginning I thought that violence in other countries is much higher… or maybe it is not, violent stories are well hidden in Jordan and we don’t know about them?? [...]