Fire in Every Direction Quotes

“In Amman everything was 3eib, that unforgiving indictment that dictates what people can or cannot do, how they can or cannot be. The city ran on the mutterings of disapproval, uttered when someone did something improper. What that thing was, the action that evoked dishonor, was inconsequential. What mattered was whether it was seen, picked up by Amman's gossiping masses, the guardians of our morality, primed and ready to excise anyone who did not fit into the expected mold.”
― Tareq Baconi, Fire in Every Direction