• Social Pressure – Page 4

    Read first: Page1 – Page2 – Page3 Social Pressure – Page 3 “What’s wrong with you today? You don’t look good” he said concerned, “Nothing” she said quickly, she knew that her *nothing* wasn’t convincing, and she doesn’t want to sound like shutting him down, so she continued in a low tone “Well it is…

  • A call for dismissing family names

    Would dismissing family names save this country from much hectic? Our heritage of tribal society has its toll on our evolution to a modern country. While building social organizations, governmental rules, individual rights are moving forward in a fast pace, we still see tribal laws and conflicts are holding us back. For years we have…

  • Social Pressure – Page 3

    Read first: Page1 – Page2 Social Pressure – Page 3 It didn’t take her much time to find a job. Sure her good educational background, communication and computer literacy skills gave her a good advantage, but she is still wondering from her boss’s looks at her what the real reason of him hiring her is.…

  • Social Pressure – Page 2

    Read first: Page1 Social Pressure – Page 2 Upon her arrival home, she noticed the loud music and chanting coming out of her house as her mother planned a party to celebrate her success. All of the women of her family, neighbors and friends gathered in order to congratulate her. She was thrilled seeing them…

  • Sexless marriages, why??

    I wonder if the lack of sex before marriage can be one of the reasons of a sexless marriage afterwards. It is a touchy subject. Most of the Jordanians are not ready for the idea to have sex experiences outside marriage boundaries because it is unacceptable from cultural and religious point of views. And I…

  • Social Pressure – Page 1

    Because of the nice feedback I got after publishing my “Young Old man” short story, and upon reading Oula Farawati’s excellent post on her blog about sexless marriages, I decided to publish another short story that I have wrote a while ago. It does give a reason why some marriages end up going without sex.…

  • Morals are relative

    We all face the delimma of judging people each day of our lives. We get appalled of other people behaviour and other people judgements of others behaviour. It does differ big time from what we believe is right and what is wrong. A lot of us have built our moral structure upon a certain religious…

  • Who is better for humanity?

  • Explaining Multiple wives from Evolution point of view

    This is interesting. A couple of months ago, I asked a biology professor on the internet this question. She gave me a very insightful and interesting answer. Read below: Is it true that men cant settle with one woman while women can settle with one man? She said: No, it’s not true neither is it…

  • Challenging God valid?

    I have came across the story of Prophet Jacob wrestling with God in the Old Testemony of the Bible several times but always felt awkward of the concept itself, didnt even try to think about it except of for sarcasm. How absured the idea of wrestling with God can be? especially when it is written…