Headlines of the local media today are all about the King’s meeting with members of the press where he stated, in a very direct manner, what many have been waiting to hear: “In Jordan there will be no detention of any journalist for carrying out his/her duty…Detention of journalists is prohibited. I do not see [...]

Memory is a strange thing. The things the mind chooses to remember and things it chooses to forget. And all of memory is a series of fragments; just pieces we put together or pull apart. Some times we retain them like an archived video, and we can play a moment like a scene, recalling every [...]

…a local Jordanian newspaper dared to wonder… Honestly, it’s too embarrassing to even translate.

Thursday, November 6th, 2008. Downtown Amman. 3:18pm. Enjoy your weekend everyone!

Apologies for the technical difficulties that took this site offline for the past 24 hours. I think it’s time for a new theme, and a wordpress upgrade to go with it!

Although I doubt many on this side of the ocean are staying up all night to watch this moment in history, I’ve decided to give in to my political tendencies and monitor how this election all comes together. Who knows. Maybe four years from now this blog won’t be around. At least I’ll get to [...]

Shot somewhere in Madaba yesterday afternoon… Abu Mahjoob

It’s been a long journey, not only for Americans or their presidential candidates, but for the world as well. It’s been like some sort of global competition to see who will become the next president of the world – and in a way that may be more true than false. It’s been the costliest election [...]