No doubt, Lebanon has always been the most artistic Arab country in my opinion. What emerged recently from the ashes of last summer’s war is proof of that. “Nafas Beirut” is an amazing art exhibition in Lebanon portraying the recent conflict in an artsy fashion. From a pink Warholesque Nasrallah to a pile of Israeli […]

[8:14pm] The results are not in yet and I guess I’ll spend the night flipping channels between Battlestar Galactica and network TV reports on the mid terms. I’m guessing the Republicans will keep the Senate but will lose the House. Although I’m not sure about the latter actually. In the past month or so enough […]

An interesting article on BBC News today…
A list of 13 “enemies of the internet” has been released by human rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF). For the first time, Egypt has been added to the list while Nepal, Libya and the Maldives have all been removed.
The list consists of countries that RSF believes are suppressing […]

In the 6th grade I won a spelling bee at my junior high school. I should have known it was all downhill from there.
Spell checkers have really done me in. It was once enough that Microsoft Word went around criticizing my every spelling mistake with red underline dashes but now Firefox is doing the same. […]

I always found one western view particularly interesting in this post 911 world of ours, and that is the idea that if and when a Muslim ever does something nutty all 1.5 billion are expected to condemn and protest. If this doesn’t happen then Muslims forfeit the right to complain about anything happening to them. […]

For some reason when Abu Odeh was charged a few days ago for remarks he said about the royal family and the Jordanian government’s treatment of Jordanians of Palestinian origins, everyone jumped on a free speech bandwagon. The idea was that the government had decided to go after Abu Odeh in another set back to […]

I guess the greatest show on Earth came to a conclusion today with Saddam sentenced to death. The irony that Iraq lives in today is somewhat depressing. Saddam is a symbol of a brutal past and that symbol is about to see the gallows. Yet Iraq’s present and it’s future look a lot worse than […]

I hate telephones. I hate calling and I hate receiving calls. They are an absolute last resort for me. I hate cell phones more. I hate having to carry one around; it’s uncomfortable in my hand and uncomfortable in my pocket. I hate having one more thing to worry about losing or forgetting some place […]

After watching one too many My Name Is Earl episodes back to back, I suddenly realized that there might be something to karma. For those who don’t know the show, it basically features the protagonist ‘white trash’ Earl who after winning the lottery decides to make a list of everything he’s done wrong in his […]

An interesting article in the Jordan Times today points to a recent study based on the last census, which indicates a decline in the number of people marrying young. This is a post about what that decline might be attributed to and what it has meant (and will mean) for women with regards to social […]

“We were not in Iraq when they killed nearly 3,000 people on September the 11th, 2001.”
(Cheers, applause.)
George W. Bush speaking on Monday afternoon, October 30th 2006, at a rally held at Georgia Southern University

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(Danger Will Robinson, Danger!: the following post contains a LOST spoiler)
Maybe the island is indeed Limbo. Maybe the passengers of Oceanic Flight 815 all died but are stuck between heaven and hell waiting to be judged. The death of Eko is an episode laced in religious connotations: flashbacks to Eko replacing his brother as a […]

So the new look is finally up. I wanted to go with something a little more personal while maintaining a degree of jordan-ness. It’s a little darker than the old one but I’m a night owl so it suits me. There are still things to do, some code to clean up. It’s difficult to […]