House of Curiosity...

Away from politics, away from the Arab world’s saddening but hopeful affairs, away from the clear lack of citizenship that is becoming more visible in Jordan these days. In a small neighborhood in the heart of East Amman, I saw Sami walking alone in the middle of day.

I always get excited to see one of [...]

 
أعرف ان الكلام الموجود هنا مكررعشرة الاف مرة. الا انه يعني لي الكثير ان اكرره للمرة العشرة الاف وواحد. انظر للأردن التي هاجر اليها جدي و جدتي بعين من الحزن، اودع جدتي و هي على فراش الموت و انا غير قادرة ان اخبرها ان اردن الأمل التي اتت اليها متأملة بمستقبل لاطفالها تمر بأزمة غير [...]

“I am not creative, I just have access to a lot of creativity” ~ Mais Gamoh, one of the most creative young women I came across.

I have been trying to write this post for a while, but was not sure what I wanted to say exactly. Since I traveled to Spain, I wondered why the “taste” [...]

“منشان الله اشتري مني” قال لي محمد، الشاب اللي بيبيع الجرايد عند اشارة بيتي. ” اشتري مني خليني اشتري غدا للولاد، والله لسا ما استفتحنا و انت شايفة هالفياضانات”
شو اللحظة اللي تحولوا بياعين الجرايد من اصحاب مهنه لشحادين؟ وقت غلاء الأسعار اللي ضرب الأردن ب2007 و 2008؟ ولا الأزمة المالية ب2009؟ ولا كانت الأممر دائما [...]

Amman was  a mess yesterday, police everywhere, crazy traffic jams, closed circles, rumours of terrorists acts…thousands of people gathering for the opening of a mall?
I wonder what was going on. If it is really the mall… I wonder if opening a mall is worth messing up a whole city?  (it kind of reminded me when [...]

As I was driving home yesterday late at night, I noticed a car parked on the side of our road. A man and a woman in their late twenties or early thirties were sitting there making out comfortably.  A sudden pang seized my heart; there was something innocent in the way they looked. Even though [...]

I was walking in swefieh… in the Che che, Starbucks and the new church area… I was dressed respectably (of that I am 100% sure) actually I was wearing sports outfit,  black pants and a big blue jacket… the outfit was not even sexy… it was comfortable and conveniently ugly!
… A guy drove by in a fancy [...]

October 2008
We have finally joint the 70,000 Jordanian families that have foreign live-in domestic workers. Irani, is 23, smart and ambitious. She started her studies in economics at the university, and is here to save enough money to be able to go back to school…. I picked her up when she arrived…
And for a split [...]