A recent editorial in the Jordan Times discussed a petition by Jordanian women to Prime Minister Adnan Badran which reserves 20 seats for them in the next minicpual elections; a quota system. While I feel hesitant to endorse any type of quota system concerning elections in the name of maintaining free elections, I also feel [...]

I am currently working on (bit by bit) a section of this website with a complete history of Jordan and not just the everyday 100 words that are floating around the Internet, but something a bit more complete and interesting (or at least to me) like our history, rumors, mysteries etc. So this is a [...]

This photo was used in the Jordan Telecom campaign for the Ahlan fixed line. I fell in love with it last summer. It has supernatural nostalgic powers.

We are still ranked 37th on Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) but the score has improved from 5.3 to 5.7, acknowledging an improvement to fight corruption in the Kingdom. Of Arab countries we come in 4th after Oman (28th), UAE (30th) and Bahrain (36th). Any score below 5.0 (out of 10) suggests a significant [...]

t-shirts’ i’m diggin lately… html tags… on blogs… just funny…

When a dentist asks me whether I’ve been brushing, does he already know the answer…

The funny thing is I have relatives in Kerak with chicken farms who I am almost certain made this exact speech!

HM King Abdullah II gave an interview with Al Rai newspaper on October 9th 2005. Here are some of the interesting excerpts (that are more politically oriented) from that interview. The National Agenda: The Next Step… AL RAI: Having said that, will the recommendations of the National Agenda Committee be submitted to a public referendum [...]