In what is sure to be the silliest and biggest distraction this summer, the Jordan Festival is facing a lot of Arab stars backing out before the festival even kicks off; citing “suspicion of normalization with Israel”. For those who haven’t heard about the controversy, which I hesitate to label as a controversy, it basically […]

One hour. Sixty minutes. Three thousand and six hundred seconds. Yes. It’s that time of the month again. Tie a string around your finger, program your cell phones or write it on your fridge, bathroom mirror or foreheads by way of reminder. Turn your lights off between 8-9pm tonight! Consider it your monthly 60-minute reminder […]

They’re calling it Coldplay’s “experimental” album. To me, Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends, is somewhere between U2’s Joshua Tree and what The Killer’s did on Sam’s Town. Yes; it’s a strange combination. Viva la Vida (Spanish for “Long Live Life!”) takes its name from a painting by 20th century Mexican artist […]

TIP: The three blogs I read every now and then when I’m feeling down and I need a quick pick-me-upper, are Fail Blog, Stuff White People Like and The Superficial. For those of you who are like me and tend to take life too seriously sometimes, take the time to enjoy some mind-numbing blogging. It […]

I haven’t heard an Alanis Morissette album the whole way through for a very long time, and it has been a few years since her last production. Flavors of Entanglement, her seventh studio album, sees her approaching a near-reinvention of herself. Her powerful, poetic lyrics - that are in themselves an entanglement of quirky mannerisms […]

I don’t like to talk about my day job much but every often, such as right now, I feel compelled to share a thing or two. If this job has taught me anything it’s what we call maseh joukh, other wise known as, ass kissing. Don’t get me wrong, I would never partake in such […]

By now, even if you have been living under a rock (like me) for these past few weeks, you’ve probably had someone you know mention the Turkish TV drama “Noor” that has taken Jordanians by storm. I have no idea what the show is about but I know it involves a good looking guy and […]

I’ve probably never seen a subject matter kept so hush-hush in Jordan as this controversial statement that was very recently released. No one is reporting about it. No one is writing about it. Many are talking about it. Because of course, many have access to Al-Jazeera, which seems to be the only one saying anything […]

The government floated a bill yesterday to amend the Public Gathering Law. The (temporary) law, which came about during the Abul Ragheb government back in 2003, basically bans the hosting of any public events (specifically marches, rallies, demonstrations), without getting approval from the governor 3 days prior to such an event. Also, the law makes […]

I didn’t intend to blog about this as I was invited to go but preferred to spend my Thursday night more lucratively, especially with all that branding that eventually just turned me off on the whole event. However, due to the misadventures of a few friends who begged me to blog about it, I feel […]

The other night I was having dinner at Chili House by the 7th circle. Everyone was hooked on the game between Germany and Portugal on the screen. And while sitting outside my friends and I noticed this beat up white Mercedes with about four guys in it, just driving past the road at a moderate […]

This has been a post brewing in my mind for some time and I think blogger Razan Khatib beat me to the punch a few days ago by writing briefly about the topic, so you should definitely give hers’ a read.
One of the side effects from the market liberalization that’s taken place these past […]

I read this the other day on Ammon and fortunately a few bloggers had already blogged about it on the Jordanian blogosphere. According to the local news site, two of McCain’s primary political advisers, Kagan and Kristol, have said that McCain will be declaring Jordan as a Palestinian state pretty soon, which is an option […]

This isn’t exactly a review since Faridon is a good friend of mine and I’m a big fan of his work, thus it wouldn’t be fair. It is, however, a post dedicated to encouraging everyone to go and see some amazing local artwork and hopefully enjoy their time as much as I did. The opening […]

When you wake up in the morning and read this kind of sentence in a local paper, it is unimaginably difficult for the coffee you’re drinking to not coming pouring out…
AMMAN - As the national tourism awareness campaign is one phase closer to completion, some one million Jordanians are now better-informed of the role tourism […]

Reuters has an interesting article today on an attempt to create an “etiquette bible” for social networking sites such as Facebook. Here are some of the “golden rules”:
1. You don’t have to make friends with people you don’t know. Think before you poke.
2. Wait 24 hours before accepting or removing someone as a friend. The […]