House of Curiosity...

I was very excited when I was asked for an interview. I have been trying a job for a while and I have not been successful. When I told my parents, they were super excited, but when they asked me about the nature of the job, their excitement suddenly died down!  Well can I blame [...]

I mentioned a girl- friend yesterday to a guy friend and he asked me how she is doing… I said that I have not seen her in a while but last I heard she met someone. My guy friend asked me very calmly with what I describe as male innocence, if she is sleeping with [...]

I picked up a book called koolaids, in my drive to read for Arab writers, even if the books are written in English. Rabih Alameddine reflects on the Lebanese Civil War and immigration to the United States. The plots are non-linear and fragmentary, reflecting on the war and the shattered lives of the characters. Very [...]

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?? [...]