House of Curiosity...

Today, I celebrate six years of blogging. Since this blogging has been a life changing experience for me, I felt it is worth writing about.  I can’t remember the exact details of how I stumbled upon blogging… but I know that I was the seventh blogger in Jordan.  
The story goes like this:
When i started blogging I was [...]

On our way a meeting, this is what happened
 
The thing is at least  12 Centimetres long… As a matter of fact, I am not sure I saw a screw this long before ( are they called screws?) Luckily we were driving uphill on the road that takes you from the municipality to Deir ghbar… and [...]

Concert in Jabal Al Natheef
These wonderful people came to give the people of Natheef a concert. I was very worried, as the consensus here is that music is 7aram. At the time of the concert the hall filled with people, mostly children… they heard about something called a “concert” and curiosity drove them there.
Like me, [...]

January: GazaJanuary was tough, yet it was inspiring. I spent the whole month in the streets demonstrating for Gaza, I spent the evenings in a warehouse, packing, sorting and organizing….There was a sense of freedom in being part of all the mess. In the heart of the chaos, in the middle of the angry chants, [...]

People… people… and more people.
The hospital is full of people who have come to visit teta.  The first thing you see when you walk in the long corridor is that people have poured into the corridor out of the room.  It is almost surreal!
I always thought that we are a small family, I often joked [...]

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الموضوع الأصلي انكتب باللغة الإنجليزية بتاريخ 4\5\2005. 
 كنت عم بتحدث مع ستي قبل أسابيع، و من كل وسائل الإتصال الحديثة، كنا عم بنحكي عبر برنامج السكايب.. و
 السبب هو انه ستي كانت في زيارة خاصة لبابا بالسعودية. و طبعا ما حدا في العيله كان فاهم سبب هذي الزيارة السريه و لا حتى بابا نفسه! [...]

My grandmother had a stroke on Friday morning.  My sister woke up early, and saw that there was something wrong. When she came closer, she realized that my grandmother was unconscious. We rushed her to the hospital. She has become paralyzed on the left side.
 On Thursday night, she was perfectly ok, and in a split [...]

During Gaza’s darkest moments, I discovered I have two cousins living there.  Discovering them unveiled a hidden part of my family’s history. I won’t be able to tell the story of how we lost each other, as this story is not mine to tell. I wish I could talk about our reunion story, which was [...]