It’s unfortunate. I really loved this mosque. It was close to home. It had comfortable carpets. Plentiful supply of Qurans. Even ceiling fans. But the imam. I’m fed up. It’s been a long time coming. As if his non-inspirational sermons weren’t enough, I had to be subject to a 20 minute rant this Friday on [...]

There comes a time when a man has to ask himself whether he wants a life of happiness or a life of meaning….(they’re) two very different paths…To be truly happy a man must live absolutely in the present. No thought of what has gone before and no thought of what lies ahead… but a for [...]

Ok. First of all. Take a breath. Because you’re gonna wish you had in a second.

“The street was transformed into a swimming pool of blood.” – Ahmed Hameed, a shopkeeper in Shia-dominated Sadriya where 170 over 200 Iraqis died after a powerful bomb exploded in the middle of a market full of shopkeepers and shoppers. On the same day a bomb went off in Sadr City killing 35, in Karadda [...]

With inflation what it is these days, not to mention taxes, maybe this is the only benefit of election time in Jordan this year. By the way, be sure to read Oula Farawati‘s article in Jordan Business on the tax hell we’re living in. Not mentioned above: Turkish delights (or ra7a)

I was kind of shocked and saddened to hear about the shooting in Virginia Tech that has dominated western media in the past 48 hours, especially the Internet. I tend to pay close attention to how such incidents unravel in the media and the public eye. The number 30 was splashed across home pages of [...]

“You can’t use them as human shields, it is against the law.” – A foreign peace activist telling Israeli soldiers who forced two Palestinian youths to stand in front of their jeep in Ramallah to avoid stones being thrown at them. The activist recorded the incident on tape prompting the Israeli army to suspend the [...]

Whenever I run into an Arab music video they always have the director’s name in big letters right there on the screen at the beginning or end of the video; sometimes both. When the video ends and that name flashes up there on the screen I’m thinking to myself, really? Do you really want to [...]