The Love Guru is perhaps one of the most critically-slaughtered comedies of the past decade. In fact, I don’t remember reading movie reviews that were this bad. In fact, let me quote the New York Times review that said: “The Love Guru” is downright antifunny, an experience that makes you wonder if you will ever [...]

Yet slightly expected… “The richest 30% of the population controls around 60% of the total income” [source] Meanwhile, the poorest 30% possesses only 11% of total income. Something to think about. “Agriculture consumes 65% of available water, while its economic return on the GDP stands at 3%” [source] If we were major exporters of say, [...]

An Australian woman – reputed to be the world’s oldest internet blogger – has died at the age of 108, officials say. Olive Riley had posted more than 70 entries about her life since she began her blog in February 2007. She shared her thoughts on modern life and experiences of living through the entire [...]

While I tend to read a lot of books, for some reason, I tend not to review (hardly) any of them on the Black Iris. It might have something to do with the difficult task of summing up a book in several lines, that took several hours, stretched across several days to read/experience. Also I [...]

Earlier today I made use of the “irismobile” to help out the Action Committee in delivering goods to Ruwwad in Jabal il-Nathif. The committee is trying to branch out beyond the camps while pinpointing organizations that have direct access to impoverished areas; hence Ruwwad, which I’ve written about here before (they’ve expanded to Al-Beida area [...]

Last night, cars lined up at gas stations across town, with some lineups stretching for nearly a kilometer. And this was all around 12 and 1 in the morning, mind you. The anticipation for a fuel hike the next day was not taken lightly. People would stop and ask a car in the queue what [...]

Despite all the pre-game drama, it looks like the Jordan Festival is well under way. Last night I went to the Diana Krall concert up at the Citadel, which is, by the way, an absolutely amazing place for a concert. Surrounded by all that is Amman. City lights. Wedding fireworks somewhere in the distance. Perfect [...]