It has been annoying me for some time now: the incredibly poor English skills of whoever is assigned to translate articles for Jordan’s national news agency: Petra. At first one might be misled to believe it’s a case of typos and a cocktail mix of commonly misspelled words or even the casual neglect of a [...]

Well Jordan is fasting Sunday, but all the way over here across many oceans (two I think), I will be fasting tomorrow, Saturday. So happy Ramadan to everyone, who ever you are and where ever you may be. And for those fasting I recommend this article that might help you out this year. May your [...]

Every now and then my big sister sends me a two-liner email to make a suggestion or two on what I should be blogging about. Yesterday her latest email made me laugh. I paraphrase: Nas, Write a post about price gouging in Jordan during Ramadan and how these store owners who are fasting while committing [...]

It’s the theory that everyone everywhere knows: that we are all connected to each other by at least 6 people in this world. That we are all bound by some large net of destiny in a world where the guy you just bumped into on the street might end up being your boss one day. [...]

A few months ago I was wondering if Sajida Rishawai, the would be suicide bomber of last year’s Amman bombings, would actually get the death penalty and would it be a just punishment for the crime. Ashraf Al-Akhrass, the groom of the wedding that was attacked, who pleaded with the court back in May to [...]

Recently the Human Rights Watch issued a report entitled: “Suspicious Sweeps: The General Intelligence Department and Jordanâ??s Rule of Law Problem”. The 66-page report was based on 16 cases mostly involving “Islamists”. The report relied mainly on what the prisoners said; mainly torture that ranged from being insulted and suffering from sleep deprivation to being [...]

This is Emad Hajjaj’s latest brilliant caricature on the condition of Islam and Christianity lately. He’s actually used this one before (hence the recyclable arrows) back in February of this year to describe the Sunni-Shi3a rift in Iraq. In both instances he manages (as usual) to describe exactly how I feel about both situations.

I was kind of surprised to see some of the late night comedy shows like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report take a pretty balanced approach to the Pope’s comments insulting the Prophet pbuh. There was a jab at the Pope’s, shallwe say “misguidedness” as well as the absurd reaction of some Muslims. And [...]