Facebook Envy n. The feeling you get when you come across an old friend on Facebook and realize that their life turned out way better than yours. [via jundi]

Zaina, a colleague of mine at Jordan Business, wrote an interesting opinion piece in this month’s issue entitled “Breathing Spaces”. She pointed out the lack of public spaces in Amman is a troubling dilemma now more than ever, with the rapid urbanization of the city. So she proposed that instead of taxing owners of empty [...]

So it’s been one year since I came back to live in Jordan and at the end of my first post on home soil, I promised a part two but it never transpired. Hence this post. However after actually writing it, and having it read like some sort of cliche retrospective, I pressed down on [...]

Called in last minute to attend a press conference at the amaneh (city hall), I was surprised to discover the Greater Amman Municipality had won the World Leadership award in the Town Planning category. Apparently, Amman is also Asia-Pacific city of the year. And while the city I love won, in a bit of surprising [...]

Zaatar W Zeit is a restaurant that’s been around since 1999 in Beirut, and over the years has franchised to include Dubai, Kuwait and more recently, Amman. I’ve wanted to try the place out for the longest time now and tonight I finally got the chance. It’s been getting a lot of positive reviews and [...]

The highlight of my weekend has definitely been getting to meet Amin Matalqa today at the Intercon, and talk about his movie Captain Abu Raed and what it’s like making a feature film in Jordan. First off, Amin is both smart and funny, in other words, he knows what he’s talking about when it comes [...]

Here’s a collection of some of my delicious links I’ve been looking at these past few days: – “Ahmadinejad” a film by Oliver Stone: Finally, a movie that will bring together America and Iran’s far right hatred of Oliver Stone. – Young chimp beats college students: And these were Japanese college students! – The 50 [...]