…I offer a personal story (or rather telling) about a can’t-quite-put-my-finger-on-it kind of emotion… It’s kind of strange how Independence Day can mean different things to different people. Everyone sees it in a certain light and how they view this day is also a reflection of how they feel about the country and their place [...]

Warning: this post contains spoilers. So the second season of LOST came to an end tonight with half a dozen plot twists making it the great climax of the year. A lot of the mystery surrounded Desmond, a character we haven’t seen on the show since the beginning of the season. Who would’ve known that [...]

An Al-Qaeda-linked umbrella group in Iraq denied any link to a suspect whose alleged confessions were aired on Jordanian television, in an Internet statement posted on an Islamist website. “We don’t even know the individual shown on Jordanian television,” the Mujahedeen Consultative Council said. The confessions of the man whom Jordanian state television presented as [...]

Nike Inc. is putting the world’s most popular music player to work in a system designed for its latest athletic shoes that tells runners the distance and time they’ve covered in their daily jog. The company teamed up with Apple Computer Inc. to offer the Nike+iPod Sport Kit, a wireless system that includes a sensor [...]

It seems to me that every time Israel and the U.S. gets together they talk about negotiations and road maps and deciding the fate of Palestinians…without the Palestinians. Olmert plans to remove the smaller settlements and puts it in such a way as if he’s doing the Palestinians a favour! Bush says he accepts the [...]

AMMAN (JT) â?? A suspected Iraqi member of Al Qaeda confessed Tuesday on Jordan TV to shooting a citizen in the head and kidnapping two Moroccan diplomats in the neighbouring country last year. Ziyad Khalaf Karbouli, described as a local leader of Al Qaeda â??in charge of war bountiesâ? in the Iraqi town of Rutba, [...]

Even though I’m in Toronto right now I can hear the cars honking on the streets of Amman to indicate that two people are on their way to getting married and everyone in their family apparently has a car that came with a horn. So I feel inclined to rant about the noise pollution from [...]

Two days ago I was ranting on about the ‘Culture of Shame’ in Jordan and its negative effects on unemployment in the country, especially in the face of national companies employing foreign labor instead of the domestic alternative. Natasha has an interesting post on the recent plan to ‘Jordanize’ the labor force that’s worth reading. [...]