You know there’s something seriously wrong with Jordanian politics when someone is more interested in who wins the New Hampshire primary than about both the municipal and parliamentary elections we held last year. Yes, I am speaking about myself. And this is coming from someone who followed both elections closely and invested a great deal […]

The Fifth:
A new born baby boy was found early Monday in a bag left behind in an uninhabited area in Maan, the fifth abandoned infant discovered in the last four months. According to Maan police, a passerby heard the infant’s cry and discovered the black tote bag on a roadside in Al Mreigha district yesterday […]

Here’s an interesting story: a national policy paper emerged recently, entitled “Rights to Assembly in the Jordanian Legislations”. Produced by Fayez Shakhatreh, a contracted legal expert to the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), the 74-page report has supposedly caused some debate, bringing together representatives from the government and civil society organizations to discuss it […]

The craziest news I’ve heard all week…
TYLER, Texas - A man killed his girlfriend, then filleted and cooked parts of her body before calling police to tell them what he was doing, authorities said Sunday. Christopher Lee McCuin, 25, called 911 on Saturday and told an emergency dispatcher he had killed Jana Shearer, 21, and […]

I wanted to mention something about the move to have a day of silence to protest the jailing of Fouad. Let me admit that I had originally wrote a lengthy post on how we should not silence ourselves and instead speak up. But then it occurred to me that this was more of a symbolic […]

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In the spirit of the New Year, I find myself wondering what it means to turn over a new leaf. To start again. To build again. To reform. To change. To resolve. These are all powerful words, and people use them all the time. They’ll say things like: “this is the last time I will…”, […]

I was having a conversation last night with my sister about the things that piss me off in Jordan, typically the whole west Ammani atmosphere, and an offspring of that conversation got me thinking this fine morning. The title of this post is derived from one of my favorite books/movies, Fight Club, in which the […]

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