Today is Blog Action Day and the global conversation this year is about poverty, so I thought it would be relevant to discuss poverty in Jordan. There are naturally a million angles to tackle. We could talk about the UN Human Development report and Jordan’s relatively impressive rankings. We could talk about public policy and [...]

God rest his soul

Back in 2004, during the US Presidential election, I think some might remember Micheal Moore’s “Slacker Uprising” tour, where he traveled around the US with various artists, giving speeches, rallying young Americans to vote, with the promise of ramen noodles and underwear for anyone willing to vote. This documentary essentially documents that tour and the [...]

Technorati, the Internet’s blogging search engine and most accurate ranker of blogs, has published its “State of the Blogosphere” for 2008. Some of the findings are pretty interesting when it comes to global blogging: The majority of global bloggers are male… Around half of the world’s bloggers are from the US but I’m not sure [...]

Of all the things Jordanians tend to talk about, it is simply interesting to see the global financial crisis rank first in coffee-house conversations. Some are arguing that this is the “end of America”, while others are looking at it from a more personal perspective: how will something that is so global affect Jordanians? Will [...]

There haven’t been many political films coming out of these days, so I was pretty intrigued by the very story of Battle in Seattle, which details the rather infamous demonstrations during the World Trade Organization’s ministerial conference in Seattle, circa 1999. If you were alive in any shape or form and followed the news, these [...]

I was shocked to discover that two journalists at the Jordan Times went missing during the Eid holiday while in Lebanon. AMMAN – The search continued on Wednesday for The Jordan Times editor and reporter Taylor Luck, 23, and freelance writer Holli Chmela, 27, who went missing during a vacation in Lebanon during the Eid [...]

The film that began shooting only 10 days after the 2006 July War between Israel and Lebanon, has made its rounds this past year through the various film festivals. Nevertheless, it has yet to reach its potential here in the Middle East, which is unfortunate for such a powerful film. Native Lebanese filmmaker, Philippe Aractingi, [...]