My blogs
I started blogging in 2006. I used to blog more frequent when blogging was more important, but I still write from time to time, sharing my books’ news, my thoughts and snippets of my life.
Latest blogs
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I am a happy man
Sometimes, in special moments, when I am in euphoric state of mind, I feel that I am so happy and that happiness can be a constant state of mind that can be carried along one’s entire life. Sometime, I wonder if being happy is a learning process where one, and with life experience, realizes what…
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The shift towards being more religious, why?
I don’t know how strong is the relationship between the numbers of veiled women and the indication of a shift in society towards being more religious. Looking at pictures of Jordanian women in the 60’s and 70’s of last century one would certainly acknowledge the shift in dressing towards more conservatism. Our mothers used to…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Fadi Zaghmout فادي زغموت 