Coming Home…

Hello!!
I know, I was so promising with the whole plan of the Blogs, but as the due date of my big project crept nearer it became all consuming to do that and have a life, then all of a sudden its March, and I’m planning the trip home To be honest, there hasn’t [...]

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For those looking to pass through, or relocate to, Amman….

Hello mes amis…
I have found a few places over that past week that are turning a city that I kind of appreciated in its roughness  to a jewel I am quickly coveting and beginning to see for its inherent youthfullness and cheekiness.
I am speaking of the area between 2nd circle and 1st circle on Jabel [...]

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The News.

On a day like any other day here, I am starting the morning with a cup of turkish coffee/green tea/black tea and reading a smattering of regional and canadian news, with a little BBC at times (but usually I catch that at home after the day at work)…. I try and steer clear of CNN, [...]

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One Step forward in compassion, two steps backward in disgust… the regional waltz resumes….

Bahrain: Harassment of woman human rights defender, Ghada Jamsheer Front Line is deeply concerned following information received regarding an alleged harassment campaign against Ghada Jamsheer, a woman human rights defender. Ghada Jamsheer is the president of the Women’s Petition Committee, an organisation which campaigns for the rights and dignity of women in the shari’ah family courts.
While Ghada Jamsheer was attending [...]

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Once the dust begins to settle….

In the next few days and weeks, Israeli elections will roll on while Gazans will spend this time digging the bodies of relatives out of the rubble. Grief can grab us in the middle of a horrendous moment, where a single image has the power to lead our minds down corridors we would not regularly [...]

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Thank you, Saudi Arabia!!

Saudi Arabia pledged 1 BILLION dollars to the rebuilding of Gaza. Thank goodness for oil – who else is stepping up to foot the bill people?
All’s quiet on the Western front.

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For those who are wondering what I am doing here exactly…

I wrote this account of my first trip into the field… you notice there are no grass-roots quotes’ in this case study, because the majority of my understanding solidified in the bus ride home when I could ask what was going on…. being in a country where you don’t speak the language is like swimming [...]

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It’s Temporary Forever

Amid the ruins, a fragile truce and a fragile future for Gaza
 
Rory McCarthy in Rafah
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 18 January 2009 20.57 GMT
 
Surrounded by the air strikes, artillery shelling and the destruction of Israel’s three-week war in Gaza, Jawad Harb found the hardest thing to take were the questions from his children. On the seventh [...]

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Message in an Israeli bottle that landed on the shores of the liberal West Coast

Posted By: Freeman Lewin
01/14/2009 8:00 AM

The view on the current Israel-Hamas conflict, as seen from inside Israel
When Britain was bombed by the Germans in World War II, the Allied air forces went and bombed cities in Germany, essentially saying, “Stop your bombing or we’ll kill more civilians.”
When Pearl Harbor was attacked on December [...]

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Cryptic Messages from Southern Egypt

 

Journey

RJ306
Economy
Alexandria ALY
Amman - Queen Alia International

29/01/2009
 
that was the flight i was looking at see if you can find it cheaper or ask your boss if her sister can hook us up
 
other than that all is good with me im heading down to the sudan boarder tomorrow then i will sail up the nile for 3 days then [...]

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