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Jordan’s Tribal Heritage Shouldn’t Justify Death Sentence

Last week Batir Wardam, a Jordanian famous writer, blogger and human rights activist, published a post on his blog about death sentence in Jordan. What he said mainly is that he is a strong supporter for the international declaration of human rights and the associated covenants with it except for one thing he doesn’t completely…
Why Queer is not good enough to define Arab homosexuals?

The Arabic culture is still at a stage of evolution where it has little to no tolerance to human differences. Whatever is different, and whatever defies the norms is rejected and looked down upon. That explains the bad connotations associated to the word “shaz” which is a direct translation of the word queer. “Shozooz” in…
Honor Crimes, will the law change anytime soon?

As a Jordanian man, I know exactly what “honor” defined by the Jordanian cultural heritage means. In my teen age, I had to pass through different emotional dilemmas regarding my relationship with my younger sister. On one hand I needed to assert my masculinity and “fit” in the Jordanian male macho sub culture which entails…
هل نحن امام اخر فرصة لدينا لانقاذ الارض؟

من الافضل صياغة السؤال بطريقة اخرى: هل نحن امام اخر فرصة لدينا لانقاذ الحياة على كوكب الارض؟ الحقيقة هي ان الارض ككوكب موجود منذ الازل و سيبقى موجود لفترة طويلة حتى بعد اختفاء الحياة عن سطح هذا الكوكب. لكن هنالك خطر حقيقي يواجه البشرية الان, خطر التغير المناخي الذي يهدد جميع اشكال الحياة على الارض.…
10 normal things that people do or believe in

In “The winner stands alone” – Paulo Coelho‘s latest novel – there is a list of *normal* things that people do or believe in. I have picked 10 from the list, some that I had break off, and others that I am working on: 1. Working from nine till five every day at something that…
Social Hypocrisy 2

In Jordan, a woman may disable her facebook account after she gets into a serious relationship, do you know what else she may do? Fake innocence! That is not an uncommon advice, where married women would advice their friends who got recently into a relationship to act *surprised* if her boyfriend/fiance tried to touch her…
Haya’s 30 years bday resolution regarding men.. and women

I thought that 30 years old would be the number where people would stop/shy of asking me questions about when am I going to get married. I was wrong. I now know that people have no shame… no shame at all. When I am talking about people here, I am mostly referring to other women,…
Social Hypocrisy

It baffles me how many female friends/acquaintances have disappeared from my facebook friends’ list. I don’t take that personal as I know that it is always related to a new kind of relationship in that friend life – usually an official one like in engagement or marriage -. Disabled facebook accounts, male friends’ removal, or…
Jordan with no death sentence?

There seems to be some efforts towards abolishing death sentence in Jordan. A small news was published today in al ra’ee newspaper about a session held about the matter between human rights activites, some officials and law people. In addition to that, there has been a reportage on Al Arabieh news channel tonight about the…
Jordanian bloggers and Twitter

I have been using Twitter for sometime now and it is growing on me, especially that I barely have time to write full posts recently. I haven noticed some Jordanian bloggers with accounts on twitter but only few are partially active. Twitter has been a great tool for me to connect with many other arabian…