by rchakaki | Apr 12, 2017 | Recollections, Syria
Saturday afternoon – May 2013, I receive the latest report from my contact in the UN; Ayn al-Tineh has been taken over by radical religious militias who massacred the men of the town, dumping their bodies in a mass grave and took 300 young women and girls as...
by rchakaki | Apr 15, 2015 | Learn4Life, My story of stuff
Dealing with stress, anxiety and other mental challenges is one thing. Doing it while under financial stress is a whole other ballgame! And that is the unfortunate position many women in the Arab world find themselves in. In societies that uphold a women’s place...
by rchakaki | Apr 15, 2015 | Ramblings
You’re leaving a dinner party, and a friend needs a taxi ride. You offer to drop her off, but her house is in the opposite direction, and yet you insist on dropping her home. You do it in-spite of traffic, and that report waiting for you at home to finish. You...
by rchakaki | Jul 21, 2014 | #live2give
I just got off the phone with Abdulhadi & khalil. Two brothers, one lost his eye, another his limbs in the 2009 attack.”Hamdul Allah we are fine.. three days no water, electricity. Our neighborhood is a ghost town. Everyone evacuated, two missiles hit two...
by rchakaki | Jul 5, 2014 | Ramblings
Last night, my 20 year old son came home in a solemn mood. One of his dear school friends had passed in an operating room from complications. We spoke of death, funerals and post funeral customs and how people of different cultures observe it. Ssome celebrate it...
