(warning: this is an incredibly depressing video)
How U.S. marines executed 2 dozen unarmed Iraqi civilians and then paid their relatives $2,500 in “compensation”…

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Hamzeh wrote an interesting post about living in a linguistically challenged society (i.e. America) where one’s name is rendered unpronounceable. It inspired me to recollect some of my own musings on the same subject.
Like Hamzeh my name, Naseem, has only two syllables yet every time someone reads my name it’s always in the form of […]

This is such a cool idea and so simple too. I think I saw something like this in the movie Minority Report.

The eStarling frame is a standalone Wi-Fi LCD photo frame that connects to a wireless network and automatically displays photos e-mailed to it in a slideshow format. Imagine having this thing display your latest […]

I confess: I’m not a big sports fan at all. I don’t memorize useless facts about what player got traded to what team and what their scoring average is, how many injuries they’ve endured. And while I’m in the confessing mood, I’m also not into other “guy” things like memorizing the model of every single […]

AMMAN â?? The Conciliation Court on Tuesday sentenced two journalists to two months in prison each for republishing controversial cartoons vilifying the Prophet Mohammad.
Jihad Momani, former chief editor of Shihan weekly, and Hashem Khalidi, the editor of Al Mihwar weekly, were released on bail pending their appeal. Their lawyer Mohammad Qteishat pledged to launch […]

Amman - Italian commercial television network Mediaset is in Jordan shooting a romantic comedy on the life of Jesus.
Jordan’s Royal Film Commission said yesterday that The Holy Family is being directed by Italy’s Raffaele Mertes, who has made several religious productions. The two-part TV film “seeks to narrate the human side and the interrelationships between […]

LONDON (AFP) - An English radio station said it has banned songs by British crooner James Blunt from its airwaves after listeners said they were fed up with hearing “You’re Beautiful” and “Goodbye My Lover”.
Chris Cotton, programme controller of local radio Essex FM in southern England, said: “We don’t have anything against James Blunt and […]

Now I usually don’t care about competitions, probably because I don’t like losing. But the good people of Toot are running a Design Competition for the most visually stimulating blog on Toot. Now I’m not an artist and I don’t have that phenomenal sense of taste that some people do but when it comes to […]

“Time” Magazine exposes the ugliness of the slaughter of Iraqi civilians
in Haditha by Marines last year
The Shame Of Kilo Company
Sparked by a TIME report published in March, a U.S. military investigation is probing the killing of as many as 24 Iraqi civilians by a group of Marines in the town of Haditha last November. Several […]

In a reminder of how some issues (especially in Jordan) can quickly become overkill, there was an article today in the Jordan Times about “Danish products returning to supermarket shelves”. I laughed at the title because I haven’t thought about the issue for over 2 months. To me the boycotts represented our incompetence to full […]

I just finished this book Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, which is actually older than I am but nevertheless a great read. Anne Tyler tells the story of a Baltimore family who is abandoned early on by their father. Pearl Tull is left to raise Cody, Ezra and Jenny on her own, all the while […]

Russell Peters has to be one of the funniest comedians on the planet, at least in my book. Not a lot of people have heard about him but all comedians fly under the radar until they move to Hollywood and get their big break. He’s Canadian so a lot of his material is based on […]

Occupation bulldozers and jeeps attacked the village of Funduq on Wednesday 24th of May destroying several properties. The demolitions are preparation for construction of the Apartheid Wall which will cut into the western part of the village. Other houses in the area were left under threat of imminent destruction as the Wall project is finalized […]

I don’t want to sound like that guy who is so cynical of what he sees as the deterioration of our Arab societies, because that guy always sounds like an uptight ass. I admit I am that guy most of the time and I can’t help it. I know the “counter argument” has been that […]

So my one week “holiday” starts today and it starts with me analyzing the Declaration of Independence. Oh Joy. This is part of an assignment my professor feels will help me better understand my poli sci research. I thought I might share some of the interestingness just because I feel the desire to talk (or […]

My God. What a tragedy to wake up to. I started the day praying qanut and offering dua’a for all these people that died. Part of me wishes I could put all my obligations aside for a whole year and just join an organization that helps out these people, especially this past year. Sometimes I […]