House of Curiosity...

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 [...]

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 [...]

It is always an amazing feeling when you are recognized for your work in anything, especially when unexpected.  Yes…yes…yes…we won an award…the 7iber team that is. We won an honorary award at the third annual, 2008 Jordan Web Awards in Amman … for our work last few weeks covering the Gaza events.
I am trying not [...]

During that split of a second in which I was crossing the stage to “be presented”, I felt that the world was at the tip of my fingers. And even though my presentation lasted only for 4 seconds, I savoured these seconds as i would savour a piece of chocolate, leaving it as long as [...]