I’m really happy to announce the launch of the latest blog to join the Klasssik family of content that lasts, sodioum.com. I was not used to expressing what I usually I do at work, nor do I still see myself doing that. But since the past few years have helped…

“In general, we could say that the Greeks, being Easterners, appeared more amenable to practical medicine than the Westerners” [1]. The issue of vaccines and all the conspiracy theories surrounding it has spread all over the internet, from developed to developing countries arguing how to fight the government for mandating…

This curse happens regardless of whether the country (or city) is prosperous or not, whether it has great nature, parks, fancy places or the best Levantine wine you can find in the world. The curse is: unstoppable and relentless goodbyes. I tried to fight this curse, but after 10 years…

قبل سنتين٬ تعرفت بالصدفة عدكتور قبطي ببيروت. هالدكتور حكالي قصة صارت معه لما كان عمره ٢٢ سنة بسيسلي٬ بإيطاليا. قصة غير عن كل القصص اللي بالعادة منسمعها. رجعت ععمان٬ القصة ضلت تلف براسي وقررت اني اعملها قصة قصيرة. …

Well, when I’m not doing something Levantine (like drinking wine/Arak, going on slow walks, spending some time at an Orthodox Church,…) I’m a full time telecommunications and ICT networks engineer. Upon graduating from college, our graduation project got a lot of positive feedback that we were granted extra funding to…

In 2019, as I delved into the history of my people, the Rûm of the Levant, I discovered that we aren’t Arab, but we have been Arabized, thanks to a bunch of intellectual yet idiot Levantines and some foreign intervention. The question is, if we are not Arab, and we…

My aunt, Rita, is a strong, wise and fearless woman. The kind you see in movies controlling a mafia, but luckily she is not part of one, but she has quite a good control of her neighborhood in Amman. I was having my usual wisdom talks with her and she…

I have been contemplating the idea of the rise of a small nation called Jordan, in which I spent my entire life, for at least 2 years. But regardless of those 2 years, I have always, literally always, believed in this country, and I have been mocked by almost everyone…

Growing up in the Levant, a Rûm on both sides of my parents, I was convinced that the official language of the Rûm was Arabic. But then, as I came across several books on the history of the Rûm, and how the original language of the faith was Koine Greek…