Just a friendly Black Iris Public Service Announcement: Don’t forget to go out and vote tomorrow! Temperatures are expected to cool and it’s also a declared national holiday, so no valid excuses.
Voting starts at 7:00am on July 31 until 5pm. If the voter turnout is less than 51%, they will remain open for another […]

“Other than the increase in aid, we received an explicit and detailed commitment to guarantee Israel’s qualitative advantage over other Arab states…We understand the United States’ desire to help moderate states, which stand at a united front with the United States and Israel in the struggle against Iran.” Olmert
This is how the world works:
Israel […]

Let me first confess that as I begin to write this post I really haven’t formulated a position yet. Suffice to say it’s a topic that’s been brewing in the furthest confines of my mind and has only recently, i.e. the past few hours, found its way to the surface of articulation. That being said, […]

A few days ago His Majesty King Abdullah paid a visit to the Queen Alia Airport where he voiced his dissatisfaction with its lack of progress.
“This is not the first time I visited the airport. Every time we take measures to facilitate procedures for travelers, we return and find the same obstacles again,” the […]

Support for suicide bombings against civilians has fallen sharply across the Muslim world since 2002, a major survey has suggested…In Lebanon, Bangladesh, Jordan, Pakistan and Indonesia, the proportion of Muslims who support suicide bombing has declined by half or more since 2002. But in areas of conflict, the results are different - 70% of Palestinians […]

FOR YOUR MUGGLE READING PLEASURE, THIS POST IS SPOILER-FREE.
So the tale of Harry Potter comes to an end in The Deathly Hallow, with over 750 pages worth of reading. Let me say this, I never thought Rowling was a great writer; she had a great idea but not the best of writing to back it […]

I’m currently on a US trip to Harvard University as I was invited to talk about youth communication and civic engagement, specifically in the Arab World. Hopefully when I get back to Amman I can talk about it in more detail but for now I’d like to leave you with this story.
So I land in […]

I awake to the sound of a single stomp in the early hours of dawn. And then another, and then another. And in between the cacophony was a loud crunching familiar to Jordanian ears. My mother, preparing for the morning prayers, encounters a rare intruder. And so with smooth precision her sandal comes crashing down […]