• The honor of a lady is the honor of all men

    The honor of a lady is the honor of all men It is not clear to me whether men’s protection responsibility for women in their lives is a natural instinct that defines the sexual relationship between the two sexes or is it a social construct that is build around worshipping masculinity where a man’s masculinity…

  • I am on Toot! Finally!

    Finally I made it to Toot! When I first started blogging two years ago, my eyes caught Toot. With its beautiful user interface and the quality of blogs it aggregates, I wanted my blog to be added among them. They have a very tight rules for adding blog based on the blog quality, frequency of…

  • May your soul rest in peace – My grandma

    ‘I promise God to sacrifice a lamb if I die’ My grandma wished death to come quick on her last days. My father, in an attempt to raise her morals, joked, how would you sacrifice a lamb when you are dead? After struggling with cancer for two years, and after more than two months being…

  • Save Gaza

  • رفضت العريس

    ارتكبت الذنب العظيم و رفضت العريس. كسرت حلقة الضغط و انتصرت لنفسي. هزمت امي و اخواتي و المجتمع. نفضت الكابوس عن نفسي و اعلنت ولائي لها. حطمت حاجز الخوف و رميت نفسي في احضان المجهول. فضلت حضن المجهول على حضن العريس, فايقاني باستحالة تمضية حياتي مع هذا الشخص اعطاني القوة الكافية للتمرد و قول لا.…

  • The best love is the one…

    “The best love is the one you find while searching for something else“Absurd, isn’t it?That is what I used to thinkuntil it happened to meand which was accopmanied with my sigh lying onAhalam Mustaghanmi novelFawda Al Hawas (Chaos Senses)Where she wrote a whole novel around this lineand her love for a fictional manwhom she found…

  • Trash babies, prices, car accidents! Amman?!

    What’s going on in Amman? Trash babies and inflation of prices are making the headlines on a daily bases now leaving us in wonder of what is really going on. The other day I got scared reading the newspaper, every single economical sector announces a raise in prices for its services, from food to medications,…

  • اخ انثى تحمل شرفها بين فخذيها

    ذكر, ترن الكلمة في اذني بوقع موسيقي. ينتفض جسمي فيستقيم عمودي الفقري, تتصللب فخذي و تنقبضان في حركة لا ارادية لحماية ما بينهما. عكس هيا, انا لا احمل شرفا معرضا للعار, هي تحمل شرفي, اما انا فاحمل فخرا. فخرا ليس نقطة, بل خطا يسطر رجولتي في عالم يختزل انسانيتي وانسانية هيا في منطقة واحدة. هي…

  • I add my voice to free blogger Fouad Al Farhan

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  • Women can’t participate in funerals?

    Why can’t women participate in funerals in Jordan? I don’t know if this is a religious issue or another social unjust norm. I understand that most women wouldn’t like to go to the grave site and see their loved ones burried under the ground, men don’t like that either, but what if some want to?…