• My dilemma

    This whole so called US war on terror, or as some want to consider it as war against Islam boggles me. Being an Arab does place me in the side of Muslims as the Arab world is the heart of Islam, most of those terrorist who claims to be Muslims come from Arabic countries, and…

  • 5 nice realizations of life

    5. Love and FriendshipWhat makes you feel your humanity and being alive is the ability to share it with other people. Having people around you to trust and love does make life beautiful. It is a common need. No matter how much failures you get in love or in friendships, you can always start over…

  • Different means of practicing friendship in 2006

    In the current era of booming in communication media, friendship is taking different shapes. We might not have realized it yet, but we all live it in a way or another. Fifteen years ago, friendship was manifested in 3 means, as of seeing your friend on a regular basis, if you can’t then regular phone…

  • Christian family discussing the war on Lebanon

    Back to my granparents house, all of the family are gathered there discussing the Lebanese current affair. My aunt opened the subject “Did you hear the news of today? Hezbollah had a strike, they killed 12 Israeli soldiers” Everyone seem to hear the news, and is delighted of what they heard, they all nodded their…

  • Lebanese in Amman making me realize how fortunate we are

    People don’t realize how fortunate they are until they see others misfortune. Driving back to Amman from Fuhes after visiting my grandparents on a Friday afternoon. I enjoyed that whole way back home with vast streets, modern villas and high new nice white buildings with good amount of green all telling how wonderful Amman as…

  • A funny incident

    This is Allah?A previous co-worker of mine has been living in the US for sometime. He came back to Jordan with his family 2 years ago. The other day he took his little son of 5 years old with him to the Mosk for Friday’s prayers. The little boy asked him “Where are we going…

  • Poor fighters: Another slightly uncomfortable question

    Between thinking of ‘some slightly uncomfortable questions‘ posted by Sandmonkey yesterday and reading the last chapter of Nawal Saadawi life where she talked about her participations as a doctor in 1958, 1967 and 1968 wars against Israel, I felt bad, not only for those civilians getting killed in this current war on Lebanon but also…

  • 6 shocking realizations in life

    6. Love I used to believe that there can be only one true love in a person’s life and that love would last forever. My parents have set a good example for me by still showing affection to each other after 30 years of marriage. I thought that if I found that love, it would…

  • Crusader, Persian, Zionist, Arab??!

    It is disturbing to watch war leaders connecting current people with old historical nations to inflict a stronger identity and since of belonging to a certain ideology in order to gain more support of the normal street man. Yesterday I watched an interview on Future TV with Waleed Junblat. His position against Iranian and Syrian…

  • How does it cost to place an ad in a church?!

    I just came from the Orthodox Swefieh Church in Amman. I had to attend a nice wedding ceremony for a long time school friend. It has been quite sometime since I last went to church as I haven’t been much of a religious person recently. I was a bit happy entering the church after such…