It’s Sunday. It’s a beautiful day outside. It’s Labor Day.
Bypassing various invitations to go to Aqaba, trekking in Wadi Mujib and bbq-ing in Jerash.
It’s 12:32pm and I just got home from the office.
It’s labor day and I’ve just finished a 26-hour shift.
In the past day I’ve seen the Sun set, the moon rise […]

Food for thought: why are long weekends always short?
And why does it seem like everyone went to Aqaba?
What am I doing this weekend?
I’m at work until an average of 2 in the morning.
Happy Labor Day Everyone!
(or at least to the 70% of us that are actually employed…kinda)

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Mona Hussein Abu-Bakr, the first Jordanian women to lead a political party, attends the first general conference of the Jordanian National Party in Amman. Amman April 14, 2007. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed.
p.s. this is absolutely not a joke in any way.

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Wednesday April 24th. 8th honor crime victim. Amman-Zarqa highway. Brother kills 30-year-old sister because she had been missing from the family home for 1 week. 5 bullets.
Truck driver on his way to Aqaba sees a relative of his; a 14 year old boy. Stops and tells him he’ll drive him home. Takes him to a […]

Kuwaiti investors are seeking government approval to launch a medical city near Amman at a cost of $3-5 billion, according to a statement by the official news agency, Petra.
The project will include hospitals with the latest medical technology, hotels, entertainment centres, swimming pools and gardens, said the statement
…If the project goes ahead according to plan, […]

The Village Sessions is John Mayer’s EP where he takes some great songs off of his latest studio release Continuum, retools them and records their acoustic versions. The energy of the songs can go from being very emotionally raw such as “In Repair”, very smooth and laid back like “Slow Dancing in a Burning Room” […]

For me, this…

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A reader of the Black Iris shifted my attention towards an article in yesterday’s Al-Ghad about a Palestinian in east Gaza whose Internet cafe was targeted recently by an extremist group calling itself the “swords of justice” or “swords of righteousness”, or whatever latest creative names these goons have come up with. The cafe is […]