House of Curiosity...

زرت امبارح قريه هيشة البيضا القريبة في البتراء. القرية في وسط الصحراء و بتعاني من جميع أنواع التهميش. أقرب مركز حضري هو وادي موسى.
الشباب يقدروا يروحوا للجامعة بسبب الدعم من رواد التنمية و لكن بسبب غياب التام لأي نوع مواصلات. تكلفة الوصول لأقرب جامعة هة تقريبا 650 دينار في [...]

وصلت إلى القدس بعدما بدا كأنه دهر من الانتظار. جدي انتظر 40 عام و لم يطق الانتظار أكثر فمات، وجدتي صمدت ستين عاما ثم استسلمت، أما أبي و جيل من الآباء فلا يزالون ينتظرون.
في التاكسي، كنت مع أحاول أن أتملص من عبثية السائق الإسرائيلي الذي كان يحدثني عن التاريخ العريق لعائلته الاسبانية، [...]

For those who are curious, Paul Cashin is the Assistant Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department.
I was informed that I was to meet with him on Sunday.  Every delegation was too meet with their own representative at the IMF, and since my delegation is made up of one person, I ended up [...]

So, probably some of you guessed that I have been invited to the IMF annual conference, I have been very excited about the prospect of expressing my issues with AID money, and have been blabbering about it for weeks now.
We started the day by listening to Jeremy Mark, who is the IMF Director’s deputy, [...]

I finally had the honor of making the acquaintance of the USA president’s neighbors; Concepcion Picciotto and Thomas Doubting. Concepcion is a Spanish woman who has been living in Lafayette Square, across from the white House since 1981, in support of the Palestinian cause and in protest of nuclear arms.

Concepcion, also known as connie or [...]

I fulfilled a life dream last week. I attended a U2 concert with the 7iber  gang. I can safely say that it was one of the most spectacular shows I have ever been to. The band’s thirty years of experience showed very clearly on the stage through Bono’s charismatic and energetic performance.
I must admit that [...]

I am in love with Spain! I was explaining to someone the first smell that hits you when you arrive to spain is the smell of wet earth followed by the smells of chimneys… it has been training here.
I must warn you guys that i am writing this with the most difficulty. To start with, [...]