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 [...]

 
First thing i see in the morning are these men risking their lives for their daily bread… I wonder, why we don’t have policies that ensure safety for these human beings in Jordan?

I woke up yesterday to the news of the sinking ship that had on board 51 illegal immigrants in the Mediterranean.  I held my breath, expecting the worse…  they are dead because no one could save them.  But they were under the mercy of God,  a fishing boat was around and was able to fit [...]

Ok… so yesterday finally dragged itself to a close! And it ended up successfully I might add! but what a long day. I was running around like a person with mad cow disease! or bird flue these days!!
When I am preparing a seminar, I don’t maintain that calm pompous dignity with which I face [...]

While I was doing my womanish chat with my friend from Boston, she asked me out of the blue “did you hear the news?” and I was like “no, kheir?” And she told me about this Saudi Lady who comes every year to Massachusetts with her entourage. Apparently two of the maids, learnt upon coming [...]