House of Curiosity...

Um Raed, our neighbour at the Jabal. She has a wide range of children (literally). The age range starts from 5 and ends at 25.
Her life is difficult, mostly because her husband is a mean old lazy bum. He could never keep a proper job, and he never quite figured out the meaning of a [...]

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 [...]

As I was listening to our beloved Nancy Ajram.. I heard a song that made me think of a conversation I had with my mother (among all people you would think about when you hear Nancy!) the song was saying that it is 7aram he betrays her trust… and if this was love then God [...]

I had a very long discussion with my cousin and his wife about domestic violence and abuse in Jordan, they both work in fields that fight domestic violence. He ended up sending Emad Hajaj the link about women in jordan support being beaten by their husbands article which was featured in Alarabiya newspaper last week [...]

This is really interesting,
There is an article in Al Arabiya newspape says that 60% of Jordanian women support being beaten by their husbands. At first i was very outraged, thinking that this much be a flawed survey. Because if I apply this the people i know, i really dont know 60 women who want to [...]