A bowl full of awesomeness.

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Since this is an odd holiday season, I thought I’d put together a bunch of reviews for movies I’ve seen lately, to help anyone wanting to pick something good to watch. The following can be found at Hammoudeh’s in the balad (or abdoun), with excellent quality. Luckily, they are all good movies, hence the high […]

Say - John Mayer | Must I wait for Mayer to finally release another song before I can hear good music again? “Say” was written as a single for the upcoming Rob Reiner picture “The Bucket List”, where two old men from different backgrounds come together to complete a things-to-do-before-i-die kind of list. The official […]

We’ve been playing Christmas carols for background music in the office lately. Bing Crosby. Frank Sinatra. I kind of miss the festivities back in Toronto. Ah well. Merry Christmas.

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This time last year was quite memorable when it came to the holiday season. A merging of Eid Al-Adha, Christmas and New Years gave way to the longest recorded holiday in recent Jordanian history. This was remedied by the King scrapping two unnecessary holidays and the government presetting the holidays ahead of time. So this […]

gray Amman weather
paperwork
(escape)
see an old friend
see an old teacher
(reminisce on the passage of time)
good music
good books
family
sunset
by the sea

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Tomorrow is Eid Al-Adha so I wanted to wish all the readers of the Black Iris a Eid mubarak and to those fasting today, may Allah swt accept it. I hope everyone has a lovely time with family and friends over the long holiday, and don’t stay up too late tonight if you plan on […]

And this is how the story ends…
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has pardoned the teenage victim of a gang rape who was sentenced to 200 lashes and jailed for six months in a case that caused an international outcry.
If confirmed, the pardon would represent a rare occasion where a Saudi ruler has publicly challenged the […]