Today thousands of people marched all across the U.S. to protest the genocide in Darfur that has lead to the death of 400,000 people and displaced at least 2 million. This comes in the midst of news that the UN has cut food supplies in half as well as the news of a possible peace […]

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The weather in Toronto has been great lately so I try and get out more often for a walk. Walking in Toronto is of course a lot different from walking back home in Amman. Notably there are sidewalks, a lot of park land and a lot of driver-pedestrian respect, which makes walking a whole lot […]

If you put the melodic pop stylings of Coldplay, the alt-rock melancholia of Switchfoot the piano virtuosity of Ben Folds into one big melting pot then you might get a sense of what The Fray is all about. But comparisons to a-list artists that have dominated the music charts in the past 6 years, The […]

The UN is cutting in half its daily rations in Sudan’s Darfur region because of a severe funding shortfall.
From May the ration will be half the minimum amount required each day. The cut comes as the UN said Darfur’s malnutrition rates are rising again.
Nearly 3m people depend on food aid after being driven off their […]

Two things that kill me…
1) People who still think Zarqawi is a fictional character dreamt up by the Mossad and the CIA in some hollywood basement in order to have an excuse for the US to remain in Iraq (as if they really needed one) despite his latest video
2) The media’s constant (or favorite […]

Over the last few weeks I’ve written about 10 different academic essays and with each one I made a discovery. Actually it wasn’t much of a ‘discovery’ per se, it was something I’ve known for about a year now but have only recently become so frustrated that I’ve been able to break the barriers of […]

Last night I watched Hotel Rwanda for the second time. In the film there is a scene where a camera man named Jack has just captured some horrible images of people being slaughtered and the main character Paul is convinced this footage will force people in the west to pay attention. Jack of course explains […]