House of Curiosity...

Smokes blow wrote a post last January on adopting children from Gaza. His post was one of few posts that addressed the issue. At that point I was very interested in exploring the possibility of adopting a child from Gaza. I eventually reached a dead end… but I learnt a few things in the process.
I decided to [...]

I am an Arab and Arabs have imposed silence upon themsleves!

 
تحيط خاصرتها بالألغام .. وتنفجر .. لا هو موت .. ولا هو انتحار انه أسلوب غـزة في إعلان جدارتها بالحياة منذ أربع سنوات ولحم غـزة يتطاير شظايا قذائف لا هو سحر ولا هو أعجوبة ، انه سلاح غـزة في الدفاع عن بقائها وفي استنزاف العدو [...]

كانت ايام حرب غزة كتير عصيبة السنة الماضية. كان الغضب بيعترم الشوارع الأردنية. كان عندنا شعور بالقهر و الظلم. و عرفنا انه الشعب الفلسطيني كان ضحية للعبه سياسيه قذرة، متعلقة بالإنتخابات الإسرائيلية
طريقة مقاومتنا ، كانت طريقة الضعفاء. ما بنقدر نغير الواقع بس بنقدر نعمل شي صغير. مش مهم اذا كان مفيد أو لا، المهم [...]

During Gaza’s darkest moments, I discovered I have two cousins living there.  Discovering them unveiled a hidden part of my family’s history. I won’t be able to tell the story of how we lost each other, as this story is not mine to tell. I wish I could talk about our reunion story, which was [...]

 
I started the day thinking about something else… I realized that I was no longer putting myself in the shoes of that Gazan girl while she is going through a moment between the world of sleep and the world of the awake. Last few weeks, I would imagine myself at that moment when realization rushes [...]

After ten days in the streets, going from one demonstration to another, and working on 7iber’s food drive… my brain started picking a peculiar vibe… the sweet promise of love in the air! Some might find this an inappropriate topic right now… but falling in love in time of war is the most instinctive human [...]

30/12/2008
So…we spent the last three days gathering food for Gaza. 7iber created an event on facebook to tell people about the drive…
I am not sure how things picked up, but I received messages about the drive from fifteen different people!
Now, we told people to bring food to the empty lot of land facing [...]

Jordanians have broken their silence. A lot of them took their frustration to the streets in the form of organized demonstrations. This one was on Sunday. It started at the fourth circle and ended in front of the Egyptian Embassy. The theme was anger directed towards the Egyptian leader because of the Rafah boarder, and more [...]