It would be a little ironic that the more Israel digs in that area in search of its ancient history, the more Islamic history it will unearth. This is, by the way, the same Mugrabi Bridge that has recently been controversial. JERUSALEM, Israel, Feb. 19 (UPI) — Remains of a Muslim prayer room were unearthed [...]

You can get the money You can get the power But keep your eyes on The final hour. – Lauryn Hill

Perhaps one of the biggest aids in encouraging Jordanian youth to get involved in politics is the lowering of the voting age. And I’m not talking about various debate skirmishes in the past few years that finally resulted in lowering the voting from 19 to 18 in the last elections (2003) but rather from 18 [...]

Activism in Jordan reminds me of what happens when a house is on fire in Jordan. Some will rush to help you put it out but most will just gather around to comment and tell you where you went wrong in your life. Some will say your aiming the garden hose wrong. Some will say [...]

It all started in 1450 when Gutenberg invented the printing press. It’s 557 years later and the latest draft for the Press And Publications Law in Jordan has seen very few changes since it was put on the debating table a month ago to resolve the biggest contradiction quite possibly in Jordanian legislative history. Or [...]

So I’m faced with this problem: how to write a two year blogoversary post, a task, as daunting as it sounds, which seems to have become a necessity in this day and age. Do I stick with the cliches? The tough-lessons-I’ve-learned-since-starting-to-blog kind of thing or stories of virtual adversities I’ve had to overcome? How my [...]

There are very few things which I could ever claim to have the ability to speak with some authority. Very few. And my ongoing life as a student constantly reminds me there is so much in the world still unlearned by the average person so expertise is hard to come by. But let’s put expertise [...]

Loyal readers of this blog know that the women’s quota in Jordanian politics is something I’ve spoken of (against) several times on this blog. One of those readers, Maha, emailed me a Jordanian music video that was actually done as a sketch on a popular JTV comedy show: “Haik; Mish Haik”. It’s not the funniest [...]