Unless the wording of a 2005 amendment to the Agriculture Law is changed, the Kingdom’s state forests are in danger of extinction, according to the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature (RSCN).
â??In 10 years, there will be no forests left in Jordan if this amendment is not stopped,â? RSCN Director General Yahya Khalid told […]

Jordan responds to the news that Israelis were turned away at the border.
Government Spokesman Nasser Judeh on Thursday confirmed that authorities had barred a group of Israeli Orthodox Jews from entering the Kingdom, but insisted the move â??was not politically motivated.â?
Judeh said the move to ban the group of tourists from entering Jordan earlier this […]

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19 days
11 hours
23 minutes
[a personal record]

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The mental clouds that have been hovering like vultures around my head the past few days, have circled away. Actually the first two days of sickness are reminiscent of the several tweety birds that spun dizzily around Sylvester after another failed attempt of lunching. The third day is the Acme anvil falling on Wile E. […]

Jordan has prevented Orthodox Jewish Israelis from entering the country in recent weeks for fear they will be the targets of terrorist attacks, the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
Israeli and Jordanian authorities have been in contact over the Jordanian policy not to admit Israelis who wear the Orthodox Jewish garb of prayer fringes and skullcaps, ministry […]

Today I was watching a news show on the CBC called The Hour hosted by George Stroumboulopoulos (not to be confused with Clinton’s press secretary George Stephanopoulos). The show featured a recap of last night’s Golden Globes and pointed a certain verbal slip during the listing of nominees of the Best Foreign Film category and […]

More information is now emerging on the recent charges brought up against the Islamic Action Front’s (IAF) deputy head Jamil Abu Bakr by Jordan’s State Security court. This was actually concerning comments posted on the party’s website which criticised nepotism in the government.
“This is legitimate political criticism about fighting corruption and nepotism which King Abdullah […]

Congratulations! The first Palestinian film to ever win a Golden Globe; Paradise Now won best Foreign Film.
Although for a second the director forgot who gave him the award but no biggie.

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The Black Iris is currently going through a few rennovations so bear with me while I strive for perfection.

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The Dutch government will announce over the next few weeks whether it will make it a crime to wear traditional Islamic dress which covers the face apart from the eyes.
The Dutch parliament has already voted in favour of a proposal to ban the burqa outside the home, and some in the government have thrown their […]

This is the story about the U.S. army contacting several Pro-War U.S. bloggers and offering them “exclusive content” to post on their blogs for propaganda purposes. This of course would not be the first time something like this has happened.
It has been reported by the Washington Post as well as posted on several of the […]

Iraq’s electoral commission said Monday that it is throwing out votes from 227 ballot boxes in last month’s parliamentary elections because of fraud, a tiny percentage of the total vote that shouldn’t greatly affect overall results.
Complaints by Sunni Arab and secular Shiite Muslim parties charging voting fraud and other irregularities have delayed announcement of final […]

In another effort to clamp down on the IAF (Islamic Action Front), which is the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, the Jordanian government by way of the State Security Court, has charged Deputy Secretary-General of the IAF, Jamil Abu Bakr with, now get this, “insulting the dignity of the state.”
How did Jamil […]

For some reason, Amr Khaled has always reminded me of Tyler Durden. Or at least what would have happened to Tyler Durden had he been less anarchist and more religious. Perhaps Khaled is a bizarro version of Durden but with the same goals to change the world to something better than what it is now.
Though […]

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