For the past year, I have been traveling across Jordan conducting dozens of interviews, visiting people in their homes, in their workplace, and neighborhoods. I have also been spending many hours writing, reading transcripts and making sure that both, the voice of the characters and their environment are depicted as accurately as possible. I am happy to announce that I am more than half-way through writing the book. The field work and interviews for six chapters have been completed. For those of you who I meet with or speak to and ask me about the characters and the places or offer advice, thank you. You bring the stories alive.

The field work and interviews for six chapters for Voices of Jordan have been completed. I have been incredibly lucky to find some great characters and I look forward to sharing all their stories with you! Looking ahead, I will be working on the final four chapters beginning in March and April. I'm happy to announce that by June 2017, the work for Voices of Jordan will be completed! Still, there's a lot to do: publishing, printing, marketing.

As we enter 2017, I am more convinced than ever that the stories I have heard need to be told, documented, photographed and shared.

Happy New Year!