Julia Haddad

.Twenty-one Addictions. It was May 2018 when I heard from a friend at a cycling event that there was a group organizing several runs a week called Running Amman. The idea appealed to me, so I looked them up on social media, reached out to them, and asked if I could join—and they welcomed me. And since I told them how slow I was, they invited me to join one of their runs in…

I’m Julia Haddad, a teacher of children with autism spectrum disorder. It’s a job I’m passionate about and a source of positive energy for me—along with running. Here’s my story with running: how it began, how it continued, and where it has taken me: Back in the 1990s, if you were walking through the quiet alleys of our neighborhood in Amman, you might have seen a little girl running behind the walls…