House of Curiosity...

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 [...]

 
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 [...]

Words fail to describe my feelings… so I won’t say anything…
 
This is one of my favorite poems.. Marcel Khalifeh turned it into a song… It is so  harsh yet so tender… 
 

تصبحون على وطن
عندما يذهب الشهداء الى النوم أصحو
وأحرسهم من هواة الرِّثاء

 
أقول لهم :
تُصبحون على وطن،
من سحابٍ ومن شجرٍ،
من سراب وماء

أهنئُهُم بالسلامةِ من حادثِ المُستحيل
ومن قيمة [...]

Mawtini” My homeland” was unofficially the anthem used by Palestinians, written by Ibrahim Touqan and composed by the Lebanese composer Mohammad Flaifel. This should not be confused with Biladi, the official anthem.
 
Mawtini
My homeland, My homeland
Majesty and beauty, sublimity and splendor,
Are in your hills, are in your hills

Life and deliverance, pleasure and hope
Are in your air, [...]

I know this is old news; it dates back to the 21 of February.  I received this from a friend few days ago and it was one of those interviews that got me thinking for days. I am talking about Dr. Sultan Interview at al Jazeera TV.
Now let’s try to keep an open mind about [...]

I was talking to my grandmother few weeks ago, on skype mind you, because she was in Saudi with dad for the longest time. She left us wondering about the reasons she left Amman. I have a feeling, she was trying to make a point to someone… but I don’t know who or why.  All [...]

Finally in Amman, The weather is absolutely gorgeous…
In the few hours I have been here, it seems to me the only thing people are talking about is Arafat. No wonder, it IS a very important issue. Since I came across an article called Palestine: facing the unthinkable in Arab News on November 5, issue. And [...]