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The eye of a needle and being rich
“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God” (Matthew 19:24) This phrase in the bible is one of the most phrases that refused to enter my heart in my childhood. While I never considered my family to…
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Fadi contemplating destiny
While Fadi was sitting in the garden next to an apple tree, relaxing in a sunny day and contemplating life. Suddenly, his sight caught a red appealing apple just a little bit away of his full length hand. The red apple image resided in his memory as a tasty good food poppped up to his…
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يمتد خيالي بلحظة عشق مع هطول الثلج
اقف خلف نافذة غرفتي, تستمتع اعيني بمنظر الثلج, يمتد بصري نحو الافق ليتابع امتداد البساط الابيض الذي غطى كل شىء معطيا حسا جميلا و نظرة اخرى لعالم حولي تعودت مشاهدته كما هو يمتد بصري خلف حدود النافذه, و يمتد خيالي خلف حدود الجسد. اشاهد نفسي اركض في الحقول البيضاء, كأنني طفلة اركض بفرح و حرية.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Save Gaza
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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.…
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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…
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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,…