Nadine is a coworker. One of the few that compel me to come into work on some days. She is young, a mother, a wife and a woman who doesn’t take crap from anyone, and God forbid you should have the misfortune of crossing her one day.
With that in mind.
Today she tells me in […]

HM Queen Rania’s latest YouTube video attempts to showcase the evolution of women, specifically in Jordan. It presents a series of jobs and/or roles that women have taken on in the Kingdom.

I agree that we’ve come along way, and that’s an accomplishment that deserves to be highlighted because there are many women who have broken […]

“The computer is a moron.”
- Peter Drucker
American management writer (1909 - 2005)

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To all Jordanian Christians, a happy Easter to you! The great thing about Easter this year, is that Safeway is selling those delicious Cadbury yolk eggs that you can usually only get in North America. But with a price tag of 1 dinar each, I think I’ll have to wait till Ramadan!

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Apologies for the non-blogging status lately, as well as the failed promise to do some live blogging from my Dubai trip due to technical difficulties. However, I’ve written a feature on 7iber about everything we did at the Learning From The Future workshop in Dubai these past few days, which I hope satisfies the curious […]

One Hundred Thirty Seven: The number of days Saudi blogger Fouad Farhan was stuck in jail without being charged.
Today, he is free.
- Forty
- Fifty
- Sixty One
- Sixty Two
- Sixty Three
- Sixty Four
- Sixty Five
- Sixty Six
- Seventy
- Eighty One
- Ninety
- One Hundred
- One Hundred Fifteen
We Are All Fouads

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Watch 7iber dot com tomorrow for some interesting posts and a bit of live blogging.
My 6am Wake Up Call…

Purpose…

More Purpose…

The One and Only…

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A few of my delicious pickings from the past few days. Pay particular attention to the more new-media-meets-real-world articles on Facebook and Flickr. I really found those interesting. Makes the world feel a bit smaller than it is.
Staring Contest: An Italian man was given a suspended jail sentence for staring too intensely at a […]

When I came upon this picture it, for some reason, captivated me. I sat staring at it for a good 5 minutes, soaking in this moment, this sliver of humanity. Those moments are rare these days, amidst the anger, frustration; the mob, the maddening crowd. We forget some times in the midst of all that […]

Besides varying artwork and font selections as well as hardcover or soft cover choices, I would argue little has changed in the publishing world during the past century when it comes to books (at least presentation-wise). But now, Penguin, one of the biggest publishers in the world, has started, what we might call, a web […]

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A video grab shows the last frame of Reuters cameraman Fadel Shana before he was fatally wounded by an Israeli shell whilst working in the Gaza Strip April 16, 2008. Shana, a 23-year-old Palestinian, died after he stepped from his vehicle, apparently to film Israeli forces positioned several hundred metres (yards) away. Soundman, Wafa Abu […]

After 7 years of getting slammed by Jon Stewart on the Daily Show, Bush gets his revenge on “the funny man”.

Will Ferrell as Bush w/Jon Stewart on FunnyOrDie.com
[via: Huffington Post]

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If you love the TV show, Big Brother, and if it’s been a life-long goal of yours to be a contestant on it, then I’ve got good news for all you die-hard reality TV fans; Big Brother is coming to Jordan and in the most hi-tech of manners. The better news is that every […]

Today I got to attend the official launch of the Madrasati initiative and I have to admit, for someone who’s not easily impressed by about 98% of the things that happen in this country, I was pretty impressed. Not many people, especially in the media, knew exactly what it entailed so it was quite […]