House of Curiosity...

I was walking in swefieh… in the Che che, Starbucks and the new church area… I was dressed respectably (of that I am 100% sure) actually I was wearing sports outfit,  black pants and a big blue jacket… the outfit was not even sexy… it was comfortable and conveniently ugly!
… A guy drove by in a fancy [...]

Inspired by the conversation that was created on Nas’ blog about the Hijab… I was wondering why some people tend to get defensive when it comes to the Hijab.   
I followed Sarkozy’s historic speech addressing the French Parliament this last June,  where he addressed one of the most debated issues in France, the Hijab!

“We cannot accept [...]

What happened last week at the 7th has piqued my anthropological curiosity!  The story for those who don’t know it, started with a wife asking her husband for a divorce, not knowing that her request will amuse the whole nation for a couple of days.
The husband could not deal with the catastrophic request, so [...]

 
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 [...]

  
“We were sitting in the dark, oblivious to what is happening outside” says my friend Shorouq in Gaza. “My parents closed all the doors and asked us not leave. We could hear wailing, screaming and the constant stream of bombs. We are simply waiting to die.” She continued before the line was cut off. That [...]