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 […]