To learn more about Rana visit her website @ https://www.ranahusseini.com About Rana Husseini: Author of “Years of Struggle – The Women’s Movement in Jordan (2021) and “Murder in the Name of Honour (2009)”, a human rights activist and senior journalist writing for “The Jordan Times”, Husseini focused on social issues for over 25 years with a special emphasis on violence against women, as well as the brutal crimes that are committed against Jordanian women in the name of family honor....

To connect to Samer, you can reach him @ Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/kurdirama About Samer Kurdi: I am a humanitarian who works with refugees in Amman, Jordan. But I have worn many hats along the way, including that of a technology blogger, a visual artist, and have had jobs in the corporate world in both technology and pharmaceuticals, in the US and in Jordan. As an undergraduate I studied philosophy and psychology, and I still yearn to be a healer. As I grow older I have a...

You can connect to Sally by visiting her website here http://www.sallyshalabi.com About Sally: سالي شلبي حكواتية محترفة ومعروفة باسم مستوحى من اسم عائلتها ومهنتها: شلبية الحكواتية. تنقب وتبحث سالي عن قصص بلاد الشام الشعبية والمعاصرة لتحكيها بعروضها. في جعبتها ومخزونها القصصي القصص الشعبية والخرافات والشهادات والقصص المعاصرة أيضا كما وتحكي القصص العالمية. تعمل سالي شلبي بالموروث الشفوي منذ ال2005 وقد قامت بعروض مختلفة ضمن مهرجانات دولية ومحلية. تبدأ سالي ممارستها بعملية بحث طويلة ومعمقة...

About Ola El Khalidi Ola El Khalidi is delving into ways to unleash Teta O, her artist self, and experiment with music and movement fearlessly. Curator and arts collaborator, Ola is the founder of Makan Art Space (2003-2015), she is a member of the Rocca Family since 2010, an artist collaborative project with Diala Khasawnih that contemplates the meaning of everyday matters. The Family’s latest project, the Zizi School, is an experiment at philosophizing. Ola continues to examine notions of...

About Deema: I studied IT for the undergrad but I've always been crazy about music, drawing and the visual world..I worked for the biggest part now as an independent creator in photography, film and bilingual texts (mostly prose) basing all my work on self-reflexivity of my lived biography, answering questions or aspiring on taking journeys to answer questions developed throughout my journey on mother earth. So intrigued by life and the living and forever curious to see what's happening out...

About Rania Atallah After 20 years in politics and communications spent between the USA and Jordan, Rania Atalla made a mid-career change into the field of mental health. She earned her second Master’s degree, this one in Counseling Psychology from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology (Washington, D.C. campus) in June 2013. She trained at a private psychology clinic and at Al-Rashid Hospital Center for Psychiatry and Addictions, both in Amman. She currently works privately with...

مرحبًا بك في بودكاست تحويلة فكرة البودكاست هي الاحتفال بالأشخاص اللي دايماً بتعلمو بأنفسهم مهارات مختلفة لتاخذهم لآفاق جديدة. كل الاشخاص شاركونا برحلتهم بحلوها ومرها، وبخبرونا عن الحوافز والدوافع وكل الطرق اللي ساعدتهم ليعملو تحويله معينة بحياتهم ويوصلوا للي بدهم اياه Welcome to The Detour Podcast! The podcast is all about celebrating those always on a quest to learn themselves into new abilities. Each individual shares their journey so far in their lives

A video producer, turned coffee roaster, turned private mediator. Sculpting since 2005.. currently casting the first life size hollow bronze sculpture in Jordan and possibly area! To connect with Lamia go to: https://www.instagram.com/sculpturesbylamia/ https://m.facebook.com/sculpturesbylamia/?ref=bookmarks&_rdr

Annie is a Palestinian freelance photojournalist and an Independent filmmaker based in Jordan and Canada. As a visual storyteller, Annie seeks long-form narrative with a focus on women’s issues and social justice. In her work, she raises questions of identity and awareness of the experiences of exile, uprooting, and displacement among marginalized groups. Her work is published in Canadian and International media including The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), The New York Times, The...

ديالا من مواليد مدينة عمّان في ١٩٧٥. أن يولد المرء في عام ١٩٧٥ يجعل قياس الزمن سهلا بعض الشيء: مرّ ٢٥ عام في ٢٠٠٠ ومرّ ٤٥ عام في ٢٠٢٠. تحاول ديالا الاقتراب من ذاتها بالاقتراب من البريّة من حولها والتي في داخلها وتحبّ الفن والمشي. تعرفو معي على مشوار ديالا وتحويلاتها للتواصل مع ديالا https://www.roccafamily.org

Suhail has been working in the field of gender justice and SGBV prevention at a programming, research and analysis, service delivery, strategy development and training capacities for the majority of his professional life spanning over 19 years in Canada, the Middle East, Europe and on international assignments. In the past 5 years, he particularly worked within the development and refugee/emergency response contexts in Jordan, Canada, Greece, Bangladesh, Lebanon and Kenya. You can contact...

Reef in Arabic means countryside, the fertile land, and also "Reef Alayn" is the part of the eye that protects it when it blinks. Symbols that reflect my passion for nature, learning from it and with it while observing its beauty. I was born and raised in Jordan, living and working in different areas around it, with having strong ties to where I live in this world. After spending a good time of my life in the academic institutions, private companies, and the NGO sector, I realized how much I...

My name is alma. I study graffiti. I used to be an artist. I want to become a pop singer (not really because I cannot sing or hold a tune, but I dream of the attention). I live with Rocca, the cat, and hoard plants (at present, I think i have 28). Razan is one of my best friends. Here is a more formal academic biography: alma khasawnih researches access to the street in post-colonial and settler-colonial nation-states as a site of understanding and articulating access to citizenship. alma’s...

مرحبًا بك في بودكاست تحويلة فكرة البودكاست هي الاحتفال بالأشخاص اللي دايماً بتعلمو بأنفسهم مهارات مختلفة لتاخذهم لآفاق جديدة. كل الاشخاص شاركونا برحلتهم بحلوها ومرها، وبخبرونا عن الحوافز والدوافع وكل الطرق اللي ساعدتهم ليعملو تحويله معينة بحياتهم ويوصلوا للي بدهم اياه Welcome to The Detour Podcast! The podcast is all about celebrating those always on a quest to learn themselves into new abilities. Each individual shares their journey so far in their lives