The “causes” application people have been bugging me about my upcoming birthday. Not only do they remind me of my birthdate in a count-down manner, they are also suggesting that I use my birthday to collect funds for a cause that I support by creating a “birthday cause”.
Let me be brutally honest about this, whatever [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Honor Crimes in the Jordan Times
30Oct08Over the past two years (ever since I came to Jordan) the language used in “honor crimes” news reports have not changed. Despite of the social outrage towards these crimes and the call for a legal reform, the Jordan Times, is still parroting the radical voices of a tribal mindset instead fighting them or at [...]
October 29 is Pink Hijab Day!
27Oct08Totally love the idea. In an attempt to spread awareness about breast cancer, women and girls will be wearing pink scarves (not necessarily on their heads) on the 29th of this month (October). I’ll be wearing my pink neck scarf on Wednesday! Spread the word.
I’m not going to write a review, I’m leaving that to the experts. I just want to thank Aziz for talking about the water crisis in Jordan and calling for moderation in using this declining resource.
Much respect to a true Jordanian talent.
My First Winter Brunch =)
26Oct08Heart-shaped falafel and fattah with a great friend of mine.
صديقي الإرهابي
23Oct08ليال حداد
صديقي الفلسطيني لا يحبّ العواطف ولا الشعارات. لا يستمع إلى الأغاني الثورية ولا تعنيه الروايات التي تسرد «ملاحم بطولة وكرامة الشعب الفلسطيني».
صديقي إرهابي، هو يعترف بذلك، فلا حاجة لإخفاء الأمر. «على الصهاينة أن يدركوا أنّنا سنأكلهم، سنفجّر أجسادنا في مستوطناتهم، إن لم يرحلوا عن أرضنا» يقول، فهو على ما يبدو يدرك أن شعارات «كلنا [...]
Dandana: Rumors Can Kill
22Oct08Dandana is a short film by Ola Eliwat that tackles rumors and what they can do to us. Read more about the film and watch it now on 7iber.
A highly sensitive person (HSP) is a person having the innate trait of high sensitivity (or innate sensitiveness as Carl Gustav Jung originally coined it). According to Elaine N. Aron and colleagues as well as other researchers, highly sensitive people, which would represent about a fifth of the population, process sensory data much more deeply [...]
أبانا الذي في السما
20Oct08Blog Action Day 2008: Poverty
15Oct08“The time for action has never been more urgent - rising food prices have plunged 100 million more people into poverty, and the economic slowdown risks eroding political support for development,” HM Queen Rania Al-Abdullah.
This morning, the taxi driver who gave me a ride to work tuned in to one of the local radio stations [...]
Mikael Pittam, Dave
Shaden, bambam
Shaden, morning dew, Farah, loolt
irulz, coconut, An American in France, The Opinion of the Common Human, Bill [...]
المشكلجي, Qwaider قويدر