I got to the office early and was making myself a cup of green tea when I picked up Refugees Magazine, published by UNHCR, and started reading an article about the grim world of stateless people – people who, for different reasons, have no citizenship of any country.
It got me thinking about countries and nation states and birth certificates and nomads and humanity… for a few minutes, before I stopped myself because I had a stack of other important things to start working on.
My lack of blogging these past two weeks has not been because of laziness or self-censorship or writer’s block or any of the reasons that may have kept me away from my blog in the past few months. It’s simply because I’ve been overwhelmingly busy.
I wish this post can be about one of the myriad issues that have been occupying my mind; the media spokesperson at a government department who told me they don’t want to give specific information to the press and my ignorance of the access to information law which might have enabled me to file some complaint against him; the old man next door who washes the pavement using a hose every week when the water arrives, driving me insane at the sight of precious water trickling down the street; why there is no public transportation to get you to the Dead Sea; the new civil society law that’s being re-drafted after a disastrous draft from the previous government; the BBC debate on interactive media and user-generated content, and the total disconnect of journalist students in Jordan when it comes to New Media; youth in the Arab region spending their prime years in "waithood"; the young man who told me he’d burn his sister alive and turn her into coal for his arguileh if he found out she lost her virginity…
Perhaps this post can serve as a to-blog list that I might or might not come back to when I’m less swamped.
I’d also love to post a list of all the concerts and cultural events taking place over the coming week in Amman, but for now I’ll just remind that Sign of Thyme are playing live at the Jara theatre tomorrow at 8:30pm. You should be there at 8:00 am though, because the space usually fills up quickly, and this time it will be seated. Don’t miss it! They’ll be playing some of the songs from their second album “Zad” as well as others – with Yacoub Abu Ghosh on bass guitar, Ahmad Barakat on oud, Nabih Boulos on violin, Nasser Salameh on percussions, and Yazan Roussan on percussions as well.
Hasta Luego
It got me thinking about countries and nation states and birth certificates and nomads and humanity… for a few minutes, before I stopped myself because I had a stack of other important things to start working on.
My lack of blogging these past two weeks has not been because of laziness or self-censorship or writer’s block or any of the reasons that may have kept me away from my blog in the past few months. It’s simply because I’ve been overwhelmingly busy.
I wish this post can be about one of the myriad issues that have been occupying my mind; the media spokesperson at a government department who told me they don’t want to give specific information to the press and my ignorance of the access to information law which might have enabled me to file some complaint against him; the old man next door who washes the pavement using a hose every week when the water arrives, driving me insane at the sight of precious water trickling down the street; why there is no public transportation to get you to the Dead Sea; the new civil society law that’s being re-drafted after a disastrous draft from the previous government; the BBC debate on interactive media and user-generated content, and the total disconnect of journalist students in Jordan when it comes to New Media; youth in the Arab region spending their prime years in "waithood"; the young man who told me he’d burn his sister alive and turn her into coal for his arguileh if he found out she lost her virginity…
Perhaps this post can serve as a to-blog list that I might or might not come back to when I’m less swamped.
I’d also love to post a list of all the concerts and cultural events taking place over the coming week in Amman, but for now I’ll just remind that Sign of Thyme are playing live at the Jara theatre tomorrow at 8:30pm. You should be there at 8:00 am though, because the space usually fills up quickly, and this time it will be seated. Don’t miss it! They’ll be playing some of the songs from their second album “Zad” as well as others – with Yacoub Abu Ghosh on bass guitar, Ahmad Barakat on oud, Nabih Boulos on violin, Nasser Salameh on percussions, and Yazan Roussan on percussions as well.
Hasta Luego
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