It’s kind of strange how now matter what kind of bad day you’re having, Amman’s traffic will always find a way, to make it worse. Always.

This was an interesting article in today’s Jordan Times outlining the Jordan-Iraqi border check procedures that include radiation scans: The most common products containing radioactive elements that enter the border are agricultural goods, as years of warfare have contaminated Iraqi soil. Border officials had to deny entry to Iraqi trucks carrying dates, as their radiation [...]

Natalia Antonova has the first review of the Jordanian feature film, Captain Abu Raed over at Arab Comment. Definitely worth checking out. Nadim Sawalha, aka Captain Abu Raed, picked up the Best Actor award at the Dubai Film Festival. [ht: bakkouz & arabianmonkey]

Here’s another round of my del.icio.us links for this past week. The fact that most of the links are Islamic-related is pure coincidence. – A 16 year-old girl in Toronto is murdered by her father for refusing to wear the hijab and being “too westernized”. I don’t what to say about this story other than [...]

Snapped on my cell phone: In light of a recent debate on the issue, I’ve started to wonder whether there is a fine line to be drawn between celebrating and commercializing. Can one be done without the other in a commercial atmosphere? Where do we draw the line?

As we were driving around Amman the other night and the jolly Christmas lights and decorations glared from the balconies of apartments and doors of homes, my friend wondered out loud why there’s so much emphasis on Christmas but not on Eid Al-Adha. My initial response was not all that well thought out as I [...]

This is pretty interesting news: AMMAN – A new service allowing Jordanians to renew their passports through the country’s post offices is set to be operational at the beginning of next year. Jordan Post Company (JPC) Director General Mansour Malhas told The Jordan Times that the service, to be launched following an agreement with the [...]

When it comes to working in Jordan, in a field that will often require a great deal of research, getting information is tough. As one management consultant told me recently, you have to “hustle”. The media sector is shackled to the wall with all the access to information laws designed to keep them off the [...]