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From Toronto to Amman, connecting through Vienna: 17 hours and 23 minutes later, 3 dry airplane meals later, 1 lost piece of luggage later: Home. Monday: Coming-home rituals: a morning inaugurated at dawn with a walk to my local mosque for the fajir prayer followed by a day spent in the kitchen

Time for a guessing game. What's wrong with this picture? (Besides the intervals being written backwards? Sorry.) That was the "bell curve" for an assignment for one of the classes I'm taking (and finishing!) this semester. As you can see from my lovely drawn (omigod how do you spell "graff"?! I'm blanking

Here is some quotes from a letter by a Former U.S. Senator; James Abourezk, which confirms that support for Israel in Congress is based on fear. Fear from the Zionist lobby (which they claim does not exist): [Carlos Latuff © Cartoons] [..] I can tell you from personal experience that the

Here is some quotes from a letter by a Former U.S. Senator; James Abourezk, which confirms that support for Israel in Congress is based on fear. Fear from the Zionist lobby (which they claim does not exist): [Carlos Latuff © Cartoons] [..] I can tell you from personal experience that the

I was tagged by Reem, well, I am not that person who usually responds to tags, but this one is doable… (not a list of 20 personal questions!) The Tag rules are: 1- Grab the closest book to you. 2-Open Page 123. 3-Scroll down to the 5th sentence. 4-Post the next 3 sentences on your

I thought the situation in Lebanon would simmer down a bit after the Israeli invasion of the once upright Mediterranean nation during the hot summer that was hot for many reasons. Instead, I wake up to see, right on the morning news, turmoil. The (assassination of the Maronite cabinet minister

I have been tagged for this great book tag by my best friend Jad and my new friend MQabbani; thank you guys So here is what I have to do and the ones I tag have to do 1- Grab the book closest to you. 2- Open to page

I would like to make a list for Bloggers from my univerisy JUST (Jordan University of Science and Technology).Blogging is geeky no wonder, and hence blogging becomes popular at JUST, probably the most geeky students in Jordan are in JUST!Here are the names I know so far, If you happen

I haven’t blogged for over a week now and I really miss that. The past couple of weeks were absolutely crazy; it was like I was running from one place to another in small bits of time that I could not really cope with everything. My mood swings drove me

Foreignpolicy The French have long been resistant to the idea of American cultural imperalism. Now, they are resisting American technological imperialism as well. Not only has France worked on a homegrown search engine to counter Google’s ubiquity, the government is also casting off the cloak of Microsoft. The French parliament