<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><div><div></div><div>My name is Salwa alsukhon...I am still fresh In the OS community and humbled by you all experts out there. So if I sound too naiive or fresh on thoughts or approaches I'm reliefed that the OS community out of all communities will take me in and allow me some space. </div><div><br></div><div> I come from Jordan in the Middle East. A small country trying hardly to survive amongst the turmoil you hear about in the media...we are the last little piece of land in our area that is blessed with some security so far...we are apprehensive and on our toes all the time of what is coming next...</div><div><br></div><div>We received our family and brotbers and sisters in the past and still do from Palestine, Iraq, Yemen and Libya. We are now homing the terrified syrian people,we do it with love,regardless of media claims,because we are all one big family and we don't mind sharing our meagre resources with them with regards to space, food, water...etc. The biggest issue here is:what is the media doing to us...</div><div><br></div><div>I read your posts about a hero's journey and about journalism and the california event and if I may I have a message to send and again please pardon my naiivty if I sound so: we are having tens of heros and hundrereds of victims in Egypt in Syria in yeman in tunisia in libya...I implore the journalists and the media to open space for the Arab world. One of the reason for this turmoil and hell we are living in:THE MEDIA.</div><div><br></div><div>They are running the war more than leaders. We do not know anymore what is true and what is fabricated. People dont know why they are being killed and killers do not really know why they are killing,truths and facts are being twisted with one result each time...a morbid carnage festival, we are suffering,people are not only losing their lives or their homes or even their countries, those of us who still survive are losing their hopes and dreams. </div><div>It is all destruction and death around us, an abyss of horror that has no visible end...</div><div><br></div><div>I implore the media again to help us and not use us anymore to record breaking news and hit interviews or aspire for awards on documentaries or whatever...we are people like them too, we have families we had dreams, the so called arab spring has turned Into a waste land with ghosts of murdered children and bombarded homes....a carnage festival where death machines running the scene....open space for us...cut us some slack, we are nations of terrorists that must be oblitrated from the face of earth. </div><div><br></div><div>I was blessed last March to moderate an open space conference in Jordan for palestinian refugee women</div><div>that hosted refugees from Jordan,Palestine, Gaza and Lebanon. It was a unique experience not only for the participants but also for me as I discovered things in me I never thought of...the question I keep asking myself now: is it right for me and the world to apply the law of the 2feet?what is meant to happen will happen? Is it moral? Or are we butterflies and bumblebies? The irony and danger of the other question: will the majority of the arab world turn into refugees? It will be great for business minds who think of more conferences and initiatives...etc. But then when the media and the international community lose their moral compass....is there anything else that is worth our while?</div><div><br></div><div>Salwa</div><div><div style="font-size:75%;color:#575757">Sent from Samsung Mobile</div></div></div></body></html>