The good thing about Amman’s geography is you end up with some great views of the city. My parent’s home has what I believe to be, a stellar view of Amman. Today I went up to the roof to take some pictures and stitched together this panoramic view of what we see everyday. From the […]

Just a note wishing all the Christians in Jordan a Merry Christmas. And I’m totally free this week if any of you need help disassembling your gingerbread houses. Ya3ni…just in case…

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I was watching Jordan TV’s “60 Minutes” and the two topics this week were the sewage problem s in Zarqa and the cement factory in Fuheis. With the Zarqa issue, as many know, sewage has been flowing into the Zarqa river. What I found interesting on the show was that (I believe it was) the […]

Today I took a taxi to Tla Al-Ali. It would have cost me half a JD for the taxi to make the u-turn on Medina street where my final destination lingered just on the other side of the road. Thus, not wanting to pay the extra fare when my perfectly good feet could carry me […]

You shall know a Jordanian by the lighter he carries…

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The following are random observations of an economic nature that indicate just how much or little Amman has changed in the 5 years that I’ve been gone.
Has there really been a rise in jobs in Amman? I open the paper everyday to find a handful of decent job availabilities, usually in English. A four […]

I still don’t get this magazine. It’s almost like a high school year book except only the cool kids get to have their pictures featured. Actually, it’s exactly like a high school year book. I found Osama Hajjaj’s take on it to be pretty funny and quite telling.

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In the past 8 days three Lebanese people and two Iraqi people, driving cars with Jordanian plates, have stopped me at a red light to inquire about directions. And I, with my suddenly shaky usually-perfect sense of direction, have in all probability given them bad directions. So if you happen to be one of those […]