Apologies for this recent hiatus in blog posts. We have been traveling alot to egypt and southern jordan in the last few weeks, and have until today been overwhelmed with arabic finals and presentations. Now, alhumdulilah all that is finished, and classes as such are over. Now we have a month of research ahead of us on our individual study projects. I specifically am looking at Islamic Charities in Jordan, specifically focusing on the impact of the War on Terror on those charities. According to my limited research, the oversight by the CIA and other american intelligence organizations has deeply effected the ability of Islamic NGOs operating in Jordan, as it as dried up much of the money that used to come from the Gulf (There was also an intersting court ruling back home recently on this issue) I have found an excellent advisor who works for a government program and seems to know everybody I need to interview. Now that classes are over, i will have enough time to start focusing on contributing to this blog regularly Inshallah. There is much still to write about.