This Modern Love - Bloc Party | First heard on “How I Met Your Mother”. The episode was terrible but the song was relentlessly addictive. From the album “Silent Alarm”, which was pretty damn good. Including the floating-on-a-cloud track “So Here We Are” and the grungy sounds of “Like Eating Glass”.
Kruezberg - Bloc Party | […]

Of course one could spend this day by celebrating the Jordanian woman and all her accomplishments with regards to the very high level of education and economic participation. As well as the long list of freedoms enjoyed regardless of gender. A look at today’s newspapers and I can tell someone’s already got all that covered.
But […]

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — A Jordanian military prosecutor on Wednesday revealed a previously unannounced plot by three alleged militants to assassinate President Bush during his last visit to the kingdom.
The military prosecutor has charged the three Jordanians — Nidhal Musleh al-Momani, Sattam al-Zawahrah and Tharwat Daraj — with plotting to carry out terrorist attacks and […]

Have you voted for Petra in the 7 Wonders of the World competition yet? If not, get to it! Heck, dedicate a JD’s worth of SMS’s. Consider yourself taking part in something historical. Your contribution to the celebration of greatness.
I know a lot of criticism has been thrown on the campaign, from Jordanians no less. […]

Why oh why did someone have to go and ruin everything by making this movie?
Hannibal Rising is as the title suggests, about the young Hannibal Lecter years and years before he became the psychopath portrayed by the extraordinary Sir Anthony Hopkins (neglecting Brian Cox in Manhunter). I never read Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Rising which […]

Lately a debate has been brewing in my post entitled Photos Of A Futuristic Amman, which contains the Amman master plan to be implemented in the years to come. Some people love what they see, some people hate it, some people are under the impression it’s the Jordanian government that’s going to do all the […]

This has become a frequent question lately. My answer comes in article form…
Authorities on Monday closed several roads in downtown Toronto, Canada’s economic hub, after massive slabs of ice began breaking off skyscrapers in the morning sun and smashing onto streets below.
“Large sheets of ice have been reported falling from several downtown buildings,” police said […]

What do you think?
(March 5, 2007) RIYADH - A Saudi woman who was kidnapped at knifepoint, gang-raped, and then beaten by her brother has been sentenced to 90 lashes - for meeting a man who was not a relative, a newspaper reported Monday.
In an interview with the Saudi Gazette, the 19-year-old said she was blackmailed […]

The issue of landmines is not one that has particularly ever caught my attention until recently as I’ve started reading up more and more on the subject in the past six months or so. To be honest I was actually inspired by an article written by our own Oula Farawati, entitled Dangerous Soils, that was […]

…but words will always hurt their bank accounts…
Deputies yesterday approved recommendations presented by the National Guidance Committee on fines for violators, four days after they endorsed articles that make it possible for journalists to be imprisoned for publishing material deemed offensive.
Fines for perceived press and publication offenses range between JD500 to JD10,000 depending on the […]

When I look at sectarian violence in Iraq I don’t see it under a religious context any more. Sects have become a source of ethnic identity and religion doesn’t seem to play much of a role at all. Sects are merely a way to identify people and it’s historically now the easiest way to do […]

Oh dear…
CAIRO — Egyptian women must not sit as judges because it would be against Islamic law or Sharia as they would have to spend time alone with men, a male Egyptian judge was quoted as saying Saturday.
A woman judge would “contradict Article Two of the constitution,” which states that the principal source of […]

Obligatory Disclaimer: I apologize in advance for the unavoidable incoherence of this post as I’m sure there are many who won’t get it. This is because the thoughts themselves are based on a recent post I’ve read on the blogosphere about religion. Out of respect to its author I won’t be linking to it or […]

…wake up and smell the chaos people!
it’s gonna be a fun couple of months.
(the equivalent of the world cup for Jordanian political junkies)

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When you look at various blogospheres of different nations, much of the differences tend to center on politics, ideology and socio-economic status. In the Arab blogosphere this is even more apparent and differences tend to represent polarities.
I didn’t notice this until recently but the Jordanian blogosphere, all be it small and representing a small country […]

…shame…shame…
“Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights.” - Junius

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