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How Do I Blog Thee, Jordan

In Jordan on March 12, 2008 at 12:45 am

I am currently under tremendous pressure to be original and abnormally patriotic, it’s Blog About Jordan day. With all what the other bloggers will creatively write, it’s so darn hard to maneuver this unspoken peer pressure from people I have never even met.

My mother was born in Amman to parents who did not speak Arabic, my dad in a poor village in Karak to a woman who had a tattooed chin and a man who spoke Turkish, Armenian, and Arabic. My paternal aunt got married at 12, my maternal uncle was killed in a car accident, I have an uncle who was a tailor then became a professional boxer, and another who was captured by the Israelis in the 1967 war. My family was Christian, and some say Jewish, in a time not so far away.

Despite its shortcomings, Jordan is my history, and as such, it is irreplaceable.

  1. I don’t think my whole family put together has so many extraordinary factoids as you put in 5 little lines!<br /><br _moz_editor_bogus_node="TRUE" />

    Hani obaid 12 March 2008 at 1am

  2. <p>Fascinating Tololy… </p>

    Qwaider قويدر 12 March 2008 at 1am

  3. <p>If only there existed a country without shortcomings!</p>
    <p>Anti&nbsp;Fil Wijdan</p>
    <p>Wa 3ubuq Thurak Ilghali Yutu7uda Inisyan</p>
    <p>3ahudtuki 3ala Il Ikhlas wul 3uhdo baqi</p>
    <p>Ya Watan Al Ashraf wul Fursan</p>
    <p>Ya Beit Al-Hussein..Beit Aghla Insan</p>
    <p>Je vous envoie mon coeur d’un terrain lointain..Je vous manque Amman</p>
    <p></p>

    Azure 12 March 2008 at 1am

  4. Wow! interesting article, your mum is armenian too and you’re circassian? thats like one in a million chance to happen (that someone else is just like moi)

    Moey 12 March 2008 at 3am

  5. I was hoping for more from you.&nbsp; :-(

    anon 12 March 2008 at 3am

  6. speechless…… lol, this was actually, to the point and very interesting. Well done.

    Batoul 12 March 2008 at 4am

  7. <p>o.m.g. I got the math problem coreect! :D just kidding.</p>

    Batoul 12 March 2008 at 4am

  8. I wonder if we HAVE to be patriotic or if it counts to just write about how much we hate Jordan.

    Hal 12 March 2008 at 8am

  9. <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Interesting Tol, it’s ALL interesting especially how it feels to come from two different roots, I really wonder how it is.</p>

    Abdullah 12 March 2008 at 9am

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  11. quite a mix you have there
    <p>psst, i am a leo too :)</p>

    wonders 12 March 2008 at 12pm

  12. Tololy, that is quite a heritage. I don’t know how I would blog itall either!

    kinzi 12 March 2008 at 1pm

  13. Very interesting. Way to throw off expectations and just be you, quite literally. Loved it.

    MommaBean 13 March 2008 at 10am

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