"An Arab Woman Blues - Reflections in a sealed bottle..."

[madrchsod]

"Who am I ? The eternal Question . Have not figured it out fully yet . All you need to know about me is that I am a Middle Easterner, an Arab Woman - into my 40's and old enough to know better. I have no homeland per se. I live in Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Syria and Egypt simultaneously ... All the rest is icing on the cake. /Copyrights reserved, 2006-2007"


"A popular joke going around in Baghdad.

"Child: Mother, mother! Daddy was electrocuted!"

"Mother: "We have power?"........

"Radhee yells daily his favorite mantra, "For God sake unplug it."

"Radhee in Adhamiya gets a total of 3 hours of electricity per day.
1 in the morning, 2 in the early evening. These are considered lucky days.

In the morning, his wife unplugs the fridge so they can plug in the air cooler. And in the evening, she plugs in the fridge, before all the food thaws, and unplugs the air cooler..."



she has some interesting observations on what is actually going on in iraq. i wonder how long it will be before she is forced to leave as other iraqi bloggers have been forced to.


http://www.arabwomanblues.blogspot.com/
An Arab Woman Blues - Reflections in a sealed bottle...