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I wish I can reach out my hand to Laila, Mariam and Aziza!

** spoilers a thousand splendid suns khaled al Hosseini has just managed to make me cry again. I had to stop now at the moment where Laila was letting go of her daughter Aziza because of the famine. I feel so much anger and rage inside of me. Anger for the injustice those women had…
Horror films make women less feminine! A jordanian newspaper claims!

While it is hard for a lot people to imagine a genderless human being – which exist -, it is as hard for Arabs to imagine a genderless objects due to the nature of the Arabic language that genderlizes objects. There is no “it” in Arabic, we only have a he and a she. Nearly…
The maid, the magic and my friend

It is funny how you spend a lot of time with a person and suddenly get surprised about a way of thinking or a certain belief in his head. Yesterday, my mother’s friend travelled to the US and she left her Filipino maid at our house. The girl is nice, but I don’t feel comfortable…
Queen Rania twitters the Pope!

Isn’t Queen Rania the coolest Queen ever? First she establishes herself as a stylish elegant highly regarded Queen among the world leaders, then she creates a youtube channel to address the stereotypes against Arabs in the west and try to open a dialogue among the two sides, then she APPEARS on Oprah and gives a…
Toyota + Police = Brilliant Traffic Awarness Ad Campaign

Toyota and in association with local traffic police in Jordan launched a brilliant traffic awarness ad campaign. The signs of the campaign is all over the city in Amman. Everyone can see those yellow – traffic like – new signs with some guidelines. The campaign is meant to raise awareness and support those who drive…
Swine flu and pimping one’s sister!

I guess that it takes a disaster to reveal major issues of ignorance and intolerance in a society. Few months ago, during the Israeli war of Gaza there was a circulation of emails, blogs, micro-blogs and text messages cheering up for Hitler’s holocaust against the Jews. As disturbing as it has been the massacre taking…
Cross-dressers

There is no red line in our society that matches the one drawn to highlight the seperation of gender roles. Men and women, simple binary entities that simplifies all the diversity of humans nature into two templates. Only two that are hard to fit by many. It is even worse when it comes to the…
How on earth can we live togather?

The most recent science tells us that unless we can reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million, we will cause huge and irreversible damage to the earth. I don’t know why, but I have always had dead ears when it came to environment issues. Either browsing online or…
*Measurments* of freedom of expression

It never seize to amaze me how we always manage to busy ourselves in discussing the ‘measurments’ of freadom of speech whenever the issue is brought. We are smart-asses, aren’t we? When there are measurments, then we can always fit our freedom of speech to our own needs. On the last day of the follow…
Cairo Hotels!

One of the things one should do before heading to Cairo is booking in a good hotels. This is a lesson that I had to learn by myself. On our way back from Alexandria to Cairo and while stucking in the traffic at the entrance of the city, we started looking into the city guide…