Archive for March, 2007
Visual Dhikr
My friend Zaid lead me to a website today that I thought was absolutely amazing. Artist Ruh al-’Alam merges Islam with modern digital design in a way I have never experienced and is truly wondrous and appealing. The site contains everything from an amazing flash catalogue featuring a great collection of his work, to photography, [...]
Queen Rania Asks A Question
Omar brought my attention to something pretty unique. A few months ago I pondered whether HM Queen Rania was becoming a blogger herself, based on the style of a few posts on her personal website. Lately Queen Rania has joined Yahoo! Answers to ask a single yet important question: “What are you doing to empower [...]
…The heavens cracked open and white flakes descended upon the kingdom! Confusion is everywhere! Mass hysteria is everywhere! What deadly plague is this that has come to devour our children? Beware! Beware the ides of March! Quickly! Jump in your cars and take to the roads! We must find the nearest super market, the nearest [...]
On Political Leadership
It took me a while to figure out how to write this post. I wrote one of those long boring ones at first and decided it wouldn’t fly so my index finger held down the backspace key for a long time. Political Leadership has to be my all time favorite course during my poli sci [...]
The Gadhafi Watch
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The BBC held a debate today at Zara Expo on whether the Internet was changing our world. “Our”, being the Middle East. The panel included Rania Kurdi who needs no introduction, Dana Suyagh who’s head of news at the yet to be launched ATV, Doud Kuttab who needs no introduction, the one and only Roba [...]
Not Nearly Enough
The Anti-Corruption Department (ACD) announced on Sunday that it dealt with 450 cases of corruption in 2006…Last year’s cases constituted a 36 per cent increase compared to 2005. Jordan Times, Monday March 12th 2007
Well, for a brief change of (post) pace this is probably the most materialistic post I’ve ever published on The Black Iris. With some spare time on my hands I decided to set up an Amazon Wish List as many, many people have. It’s filled with items I’d love to own someday. Some far fetched, [...]
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