House of Curiosity...

 Last week, I was in a conference in Beirut. The conference was about the emerging youth identity in the Arab world. I will not write about the conference or the research. But I would like to write about a comment by a yemeni participant.  He said something along this line “Yemeni women have been recently given [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Most men fall into two categories: those who still have not broken the “emotional umbilical cord” that attaches them to their mothers and those who have. It almost seems like most Jordanian men belong to the first category… I don’t have to look much further than my own family.
My grandmother, a tiny ferocious woman, is [...]

T. was explaining to me how he is worried that his girlfriend’s parents might not like him… and refuse him as a suitor for their daughter.  I asked him not to worry, because they will never embarrass him or his parents. He explained that when parents don’t like the groom, they ask him for a [...]

 
I was walking with my sister in Souq Jara this last Friday, right at the door we saw a woman pushing a baby stroller trying to get on the pavement, but could not.  Two foreign fellows jumped to help her. She smiled, thanked them and went on with her baby.  My sister was extremely impressed, [...]

Last week, I was hanging  out with my friends from 7iber in a conference they were organizing. And since I was not involved, I could enjoy sitting back and observing.  That conference was attended by young people from 15 Arab countries.  
I was extremely impressed by the 7 young women and 3 young men who [...]