Archive for November, 2005

In response to the barbaric terrorist explosions that targeted innocent lives in our beloved Amman, an initiative of Jordanian citizens (Risalitna) has been launched to demonstrate loyalty to Jordan, resistance to terrorism and solidarity with the families of the victims. Risalitna counters terroristsâ?? message of unjustifiable killing and destruction by a Jordanian message of peace, [...]

1,973 reads

I couldn’t read this on Haitham’s blog and NOT blog about it myself. You’ve got to spread the word on things like this, it’s like some unwritten law in the blogosphere. And I’ll tell you why… This all started on Tuesday the 22nd, when Britain’s Daily Mirror published a startling allegation: In an April 2004 [...]

4,471 reads

Marouf Bakhit…wait…wasn’t he just named National Security Director and Director of the King’s Office, like, last week? Dude, does he, like, get three salaries now or what? Wasn’t he just in Syria yesterday handing a letter from the King to Assad? Dude, you didn’t see the signs. Marouf Bakhit, on the back burner of Jordanian [...]

5,426 reads

re·sis·tance (r-zstns) n. 1. The act or an instance of resisting or the capacity to resist. 2. A force that tends to oppose or retard motion. 3. often Resistance An underground organization engaged in a struggle for national liberation in a country under military or totalitarian occupation. In a demonstration of the definition of “resistance” [...]

2,141 reads

The master mind behind Linkin Park, Mike Shinoda, goes solo on this debut album from his side project: Fort Minor. The album, The Rising Tide, is Linkin Park without the mainstream rock elements and without the harmony the band achieved in balancing hip hop and rock lyrics and sounds. This is a return to Mike [...]

7,494 reads

This is a cool concept from Forbes Magazine via Electric Speghetti (a very cool blog by the way), sending an email to your future self: an E-Mail Time Capsule. You write a little email that will be sent to you in up to 20 years from now. So what would you write? Here’s a couple [...]

2,220 reads

Imperial College London has issued a ban on its staff and students wearing hijabs or hoodies in its buildings as part of an effort to improve campus security. I think the college got it wrong, they should lef the hijab, this way they can be able to tell the difference between the terrorists and the [...]

2,310 reads

King Abdullah of Jordan should support a proposal that would strip the national press association of its power to prevent journalists from working, Human Rights Watch said today. A reform committee is scheduled to present a provision to abolish the law to the king. Jordanian law should not require journalists to belong to a union, [...]

6,245 reads





vox populi

    Into ZamalekOverlooking CasaWater Through VeniceVeniceGaza In RomeThrough The Parisian Looking GlassFInal Moments of #AB11Reviewing A Statement


Misc.








You are currently browsing the The Black Iris of Jordan weblog archives for November, 2005.

Longer entries are truncated. Click the headline of an entry to read it in its entirety.