You joined Global Voices in June, 2007.

I join the throng of people on the bridge and we wait and wait.

Global Voices (GV) Tell us a bit about yourself and how you joined GV.

I also joined Global Voices four years ago or a little bit less.

When I moved to Boston, I joined a group called the World Sculpture Racing Society.

I lately joined GV MENA family as an author and translator.

I can't remember exactly when but I think it goes back to my early twenties when I first joined the ranks of repressed Jordanian journalists.

By taking action, you are not showing your concerns only, but you join thousands of activists around the world to save Syrian civilians lives.

In February 2009 I joined GV as a volunteer translator from English to Arabic, afterwards I became author and Arabic Lingua editor.

If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father ' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister '

You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?

For you are great, and do wondrous things. You are God alone.

I have said to corruption, Thou art my father to the worm, Thou are my mother, and my sister.

Thou, even thou, art to be feared and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?

For thou art great, and doest wondrous things thou art God alone.

You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.

You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.

As a mantle, you will roll them up, and they will be changed but you are the same. Your years will not fail.

Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood thou driedst up mighty rivers.

Thou hast set all the borders of the earth thou hast made summer and winter.

And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.

I experienced this firsthand when I joined a protest organized by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers against a Wendy s fast food outlet in New York City s Union Square.

You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them.

Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves. Beloved

Pilate asked him, Are you the King of the Jews? He answered, So you say.

Pilate asked him, Are you the King of the Jews? He answered him, So you say.

Thou rulest the raging of the sea when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.

Behold, thou art fair, my love behold, thou art fair thou hast doves' eyes.

And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answering said unto him, Thou sayest it.

And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answered him and said, Thou sayest it.

You are my life.

I'm not sure.

Yes, indeed.

You're a traitor.

You're a coward.

You're neurotic.

You're a tool.

You're an suck up.

You're a lurker.

You're an opportunist.

You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.

Thou also shalt be drunken thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.

They asked him, What then? Are you Elijah? He said, I am not. Are you the prophet? He answered, No.

Nathanael answered him, Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!

I said, 'Who are you, Lord?' He said, 'I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.