“Don’t ask me what to do,” the League’s secretary general, Amr Moussa, told reporters after the meeting.
CAIRO: The spiraling Middle East crisis has exposed deep divisions within the Arab world and forced its leaders into a frank admission of helplessness. After an emergency meeting of Arab League foreign ministers on Saturday, the 22-member bloc admitted […]

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This is what everyone’s been saying and by everyone I’m refering to the G8 leaders. Whenever someone says those words “right to defend themselves” I think to myself “who is being attacked and who is doing the defending?” More importantly, why after weeks of bombings on a people and their land does no one say […]

…and how the Kempinski hotel at the Dead Sea is going to help…

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Sorry to non-Flickr users. These pictures were by way of my dear sister who also suggested the title of this post. Frankly, it’s great to see that multi-national companies such as Kempinski are setting up in Jordan. It’s also great to […]

…and now: a word from your leader…
Holy Interruptus Batman! So ok, it’s been a few days since I’ve been a “full time” blogger (i.e. 3-4 posts a day) and the question is where have I been? I tend to avoid personal posts on this blog simply because I’d like to think (or entertain the illusion) […]

Oh dear…
MOGADISHU — Mogadishu’s new rulers, the Union of Islamic Courts, have promised to implement Islamic Sharia law and vowed to kill anyone failing to perform daily Salaad prayers.
Mogadishu’s Shabelle Media Network Radio reported on Wednesday that the Union of Islamic Courts intended to implement Sharia law throughout the country and particularly in Mogadishu, […]

The first step is admitting you have a problem.
By way of the very entertaining Bloggers Anonymous…
10. You check your blog stats a LOT. You occasionally get up in the middle of the night and sneak a peak.
9. Your significant other suspects you are having an affair with your blog. Even when youâ??re alone with your […]

This public policy begs more questions than anything else…especially about our own inconvenient truths…
As summer holidays begin, hundreds of students from impoverished families have flocked to upper-class neighbourhoods of the capital to eke out a living by begging near upscale coffee shops and busy traffic intersections.
Despite scorching summer heat, with temperatures reaching as high as […]

- 21,000 children will lose the chance to enroll in kindergarten and summer camps.
- Some 80,000 children will suffer psychological problems from fear of darkness and nightmares.
- 200,000 households lost the source of electricity
- Food stuff storage for the basic commodities (wheat, rice, etc) will not last for more than two weeks, and 170,000 households […]

A recent poll as reported by the Jordan Times shows that 60.7 per cent of respondents agreed with the establishment of a 20 per cent quota for women in municipal councils as suggested in the draft municipalitiesâ?? law.
I haven’t heard any real counter-argument to why there is a need for such a quota, specifically at […]

American tax payers could really care less that their taxes pay for Israel’s killing, but what if Palestinians attacked a US owned power plant in Israel? Would they submit an insurance claim? Hmm…
Israel’s bombing of Gaza’s main power plant could end up costing its closest ally, the U.S. government, because it partially insured the project […]

I think it was one of the best matches France has played in this World Cup. Zidane and Henry rock, full stop. Pure coolness. All the way to the finals baby!

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Bin Laden’s tapes drive me crazy. This past week he threatened HM King Abdullah (again) for not allowing Zarqawi’s body into Jordan to be burried. In the tape he says that in reality the King is “afraid” to hold the funeral because everyone would show up for it which would demonstrate how much support the […]