AMMAN - Jordan is set to produce the world’s first ‘flying car’, the Associated Press reported Thursday. In a bid including 36 nations at the technology exhibition NextFest, a Jordanian manufacturing firm won the contract to produce the M400 SkyCar. A joint NASA-GM venture, the M400 needs 35 clear feet to take off but thanks […]

Internet Video Shows Killings of DriversCAIRO, Egypt - A video surfaced Tuesday on the Internet showing three drivers who said they worked for a Jordanian trucking company being shot by gunmen claiming to belong to a militant Islamic group in Iraq. One of Iraq’s most notorious insurgent groups, Ansar al-Sunnah, posted the video on an […]

Jordan eyes free trade deal with CanadaAMMAN (AFP) - Jordan’s King Abdullah II reportedly called for a free trade agreement with Canada during talks with visiting Canadian Housing and Labour Minister Joseph Fontana
The state-run Petra news agency reported that the king said “measures should be stepped up to set up a free trade agreement with […]

Today was a beautiful Canadian spring day. The snow is all but gone. Only stubborn pieces of ice remain. There are many ways to know spring has arrived in Canada, I am frequently discovering these little seasonal idiosyncrasies. Today it was the realisation that my winter boots were too heavy and I was dragging my […]

How to End your Career With a “Bang”?AMMAN Â? Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Issam Zabalawi was slightly injured on Tuesday after being assaulted by a professor while attending an event at the University of Jordan (UJ).
Zabalawi was standing outside the UJ scientific education faculty waiting for Â?the Scientific Day for Women’s StudiesÂ? […]

First. My condolences and prayers go out to the families in Indonesia today. I cannot begin to fathom the shock and panic ongoing there. I hate the feeling of not being able to do anything but pray. I keep remembering the scene in Hotel Rwanda where Joaquin Phoenix explains to Don Cheadle how the western […]

Just yesterday while my father and I discussed the negative effects of bad diplomacy in Jordan lately, we wondered if Fayez Tarawneh would ever come back, as he is probably the most experienced and skilled politican and diplomat in the modern Jordanian political arena. It was tough to imagine him as a foreign minister again, […]

This was a scene from last night’s study massacre while I burnt the midnight oil. My father is staying with me for a few weeks and so I keep him company during the day and when he goes to sleep at around 10pm or so, I start to study till 4 or 5am. I then […]

I’ve never played the lottery and never will, but I was listening to Barenaked Ladies on the radio today sing “If I had a Million Dollars” and started thinking to myself (out of boredom) what I would do with that money. At the same time I remembered the Amazon.com Wishlists people have set up on […]

How do you Censor the First Amendment?
Two Sundays I was watching an episode of one of my recent favorite drama shows, Boston Legal. It is a spin-off from David E. Kelly’s “The Practice” which came to an end last year.
As always Kelly wrote an episode that set the scene for a controversial court room battle. […]

I haven’t watched a movie since…hmm…lets see…January? is that possible? Talk about 2 months of withdrawal. I didn’t think I could survive
Well I was surfing the net today and came upon a trailer for a movie I never heard of. It’s called The House of D, a David Duchovny film. I was a big X-files […]

By way of Arab Media Watch
Please take a minute to thank the Sunday Times and Daniel Day-Lewis for an excellent article in the March 20 edition entitled “Inside scarred minds”, in which the renowned actor, on his first visit to the Gaza Strip, meets Palestinian families living in conflict and the psychologists who are counselling […]

We Hardly Knew Yee!
Heck I thought it was Wednesday today. I must’ve slept through the whole thing. Anyways, if you missed it, you missed nothing. Jordan’s initial propsal concerning re-newing the Beruit 2002 initiative was rejected with outrage, then considered, then rejected, then looked at over a mid-afternoon snack of jelly donuts and coffee, then […]

The Paltel Virtual Gallery at Birzeit University
As a consequence of the siege of recent years and the confinement of Palestinians to their towns and villages, a situation has been created in which Palestinian individuals and communities are severely isolated from one another and the rest of the world. This situation has been intensified with the […]

I know by now there’s a whole bunch of people posting the recent Jordan Times article about Mostafa Mahmoud Salameh’s attempt to be the first Jordanian (and Arab) to climb Mount Everest. Jordan Times has done several features on him which I’ve read with interest. Though I thought to myself, heck, this man deserves a […]

An article of interest by way of The Electronic Intifada. EI contributor Hasan Abu Nimah, who spent four decades as a Jordanian diplomat writes an articulate article on Jordanian Diplomacy (or lack thereof) in recent days that has resulted in some unfortunate friction between Jordan, Iraq and Syria. A version of this appeared in the […]