Fellow blogger, Farah has an interesting post on fixing journalism in Jordan that I think is worth a read. She points out that admission to Yarmouk University’s Journalism program (the only one of its kind I think), has been raised to 70% and that HM King Abdullah has established a journalism fund this past week [...]

Here’s what I don’t understand. Cinemas in Jordan are absolutely convinced that any movie that does not contain real people is automatically a children film and thus they show them only during the day and early afternoon. You will never see a film like Kung Fu Panda or Wall-E, both, which, with all due respect [...]

Lina’s post got me thinking these past few days about an issue that has been brewing in my mind for a while now. There is something interesting about a population (Jordan) of which over half is considered “youth”. Of course the term “youth” spans the age groups and socioeconomic backgrounds, so obviously not every young [...]

First, the president of the Jordan Artists Association [JAA] made unfounded statements concerning the Jordan Festival and launched a boycott, which other unions didn’t see fit to join in on, stating: “We are doing our utmost so that no Arab singer or musician will take part in the festival because all artists are against normalisation [...]

I’ve received a few emails, facebook messages and sms’s regarding HM King Abdullah’s comment [link], which he posted on The Black Iris a few hours earlier today. People are generally asking me if it was really him or not so I thought I would simply verify for all that yes, indeed, it is an authentic [...]

Farah, who has been a reader of The Black Iris for some time now, started her own blog early last month. I am astonished to see that in about 30 days, this very young woman has become quite the issues blogger, which is why I’m plugging her blog here: Observations of a Jordanian, because I [...]

Last night I got to see the early screening of Hancock at Grand Cinema and it was worth staying up late to catch it. The reviews have not been great but in a slew of comic book films that see a well-established hero with his own fan base, go up against a predicted antagonist, Hancock [...]

This is a very, very interesting interview that HM King Abdullah gave yesterday. He tackles some of the most controversial issues that have been plaguing the country recently such as the land sales, the Jordan festival, the Aqaba fiasco, the old-guard vs. new guard gap, economic policies of the last decade and of course, prices. [...]