So yours truly decided to participate in the protest against the immoral events going on in Lebanon and Palestine! Now don’t get me wrong, ana la afkah shay2an bil syaseh, but just like everyone else, I’ve been stuck to the TV these past days watching the sad news, getting emotional and really really mad…and needed to let out some steam …
My first shock was the cold and indifferent reaction I got from my friends! For all of you who got an SMS from me yesterday… SHAME ON YOU!!!
My second shock was that Shmesani was sealed with policemen and cars preventing people from getting in! And how stupid and ignorant these policemen are…
This is more or less one of the conversations I had with them:
Policeman: Where do you think you’re going?
Me: (with this innocent look on my face) ummm, walking in the street!
Policeman: mamnou3 sitty
Me: shu hweh ely mamnou3
Policeman: mamnou3 el mashi hoon , el tareeg mughlaga
Me: how come?
Policeman: la2anha msakara
Me: ya I got this point, but WHY?
Policeman: (Getting impatient and nervous) What do you mean why?
Me: (spelling this out SLOWLY) why… is … the … road…closed? Shu … elmunasabeh?
Policeman: eeeeh! Aaaaaaah! Eeeeeh! HECK!
Me: hummm… so I as a Jordanian, am not allowed to walk in the streets of Amman now? And I get no explanation for that?! Sweet!
Policeman gets more nervous, and calls his superior officer to handle the ’situation’… Where the later explains that nobody’s allowed in because the Nakabat’s organizing an unauthorized protest and they have orders to seal the area!!!
That was more or less the same conversation I had with all the other officers I stumbled through while trying to find a way to get through! Anyways, after jumping off a fence and climbing some ruins (reminds me somehow of “Les Miserable”), this was the closest I could get to the protest, I managed to take one picture before some more “enlightened” cops threatened to take away my camera! As I climbed down the fence, I could hear the fading riot cheers, and the voice of a policeman shouting out loud: “La taga3i… la taga3i yal malee7a… la taga3i”!!!
I like how the conversation with the policeman is alternating between English and Arabic..lol
Apparently, the protest downtown was organized by al Ekhwan, who refused to participate in al naqabat and the other parties activities and decided to have their own (bidarbo 3ala ba3ad ya3ni!)
Ah, BTW, since nobody was able to make it to the naqabat protest (because the police blocked all the roads to al naqabat), the guys decided to organize a sit-in in Thaqafeh street yesterday 6:30PM. We missed that :S
5awanah!!! 5yaneh 3ozmah!!! >_
al ordun awalan
wel mish 3ajbo eynatef 7awajbo
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Meen el2akh el mutafate7??
Walahy I wanted to go bas i couldnt leave work!
bas rawan seriously you got guts to talk to the policeman this way. If it was me kont akalt dareb la fara2et 3a kol esense:p
wallahi sada2et ya maro!! 7abetek lama knt tnakshi el police man.. eno sa7 kan el jawab daiman nafso.. welli kan 7amiki enik benet.. allah satar 3ala kol 7al .. w allah yostor w yjeb elli feh el kher
Miss ROR;
first things first; i love your blog… allah ya3teek il 3afyeh rami… lol… no seriously i love the design” artwork” and the feel
the stories: are actually superb… very nice indeed keep on the good work… and inshallah this will be something you can build on for the future…
the person: well rawan you are a special person to me and to all the people that know you… fa have fun girl… keep us groovin’
Omar: I didn’t touch a single line of code in this blog. I just told Rawan what to do
No, seriously, its 100% made by Rawan
Omar: -.-
i swear i had the situation with a policeman here in stockholm. parallel existences?
the same*
Oh God am so late in checking ur blog.
When u told me about the march, we were already goign to Makadi Nahhas’s concert, entrance fees were all donated to Lebanon as she sang for free … Tshirts, candles and other stuff were sold there and all money was donated to Lebanon … Personally, I thought that would be better than the march, specially that the march was supposed to be organized by “alnaqabat” which I have some concerns against their political agenda.
I’m not trying to justify y i wasn’t the least interested in the march, I’m just trying to point out that there are always “other options”