House of Curiosity...

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, [...]

 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 [...]

People… people… and more people.
The hospital is full of people who have come to visit teta.  The first thing you see when you walk in the long corridor is that people have poured into the corridor out of the room.  It is almost surreal!
I always thought that we are a small family, I often joked [...]

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 [...]

I have been inspired to write about this topic by the circumcision of my poor nephew! The experience was very traumatic for me! Well… Jad was born twenty days ago, he is a perfect boy and he is very cute as well. Behind the back of every proud parent, I always say that when their [...]

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My new discovered passion in anthropology took me into a trip to one of the most beautiful places in Jordan. A place where hot water springs are born in the dead mountains, they end in hidden cascades that are unexpectedly found in this volcanic savage area…Yes, I am talking about Jordan. I [...]

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Hania and Zuzuz, originally uploaded by madas.
Omar, my little brother always had a thing to bother Hania our eldest sister. He would tickle her, push her, jump in front of her without notice, or make [...]

Spain with its mystical weather mixed with the fresh earth smells after a night of rain, the beauty of ortensias, Camilias and Callas and the rythems of Paco de Lucia and Luz casal totally gripped my soul! ….I AM FOREVER IN LOVE.
Spending my evenings in taverns where Argentinean medical students played the bosa nova in [...]