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 [...]

- 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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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!

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 [...]