House of Curiosity...

“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 [...]

Eid is here!
Eid brings many thoughts about the way we celebrate it in this part of the world.
Usually, my dad goes to Salat al Eid with my uncles. And as soon as they finish, they start what I call “the door to door ritual.” This involves strong coffee with cardamom and ka3k il eid dates cookies… [...]

Grizzly was entertaining me with some anecdotes, including incidents that took place during Salat Al Tarawee7.  As he was praying a few days ago, the man beside him did not take a breath between saying Al Salam Alaikum (an indication of the end of the prayer) and shouting at the kids who were playing, running around, [...]

This was FUN!
It all started with Tala Tutunji wanting to do more with her piano concert… then the snowball effect hit! We started with 2 people on two pianos and ended up with 15 people celebrating our beloved Amman!
Oh my God… what fun… I know that in my heart that I need to work with youth [...]