Archive for December, 2008

Let me be honest right off the bat. I have never been a Jean-Claude Van Damme fan nor a fan of the pseudo-action flicks genre in general. Nevertheless, the “Muscles From Brussels” is worshiped in Jordan and that’s the only way I would ever discover that Van Damme has actually continued to make movies after [...]

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There’s an article today in the Jordan Times attempting to articulate the predicament many Jordanians have found themselves in this year: the rising price of Jordanian sheep. There has been a noticeable price difference between the local variety and the international variety coming mainly from Australia, and that difference is related the rising prices of [...]

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Truly a spectacular city. Historical. Cultural. Alive and breathing. Walking through La Rambla I thought to myself, here is a street that has defined this city. It’s filled with cafe seats, florists, artists, human statues and festive lights. But it’s just a street. Yet, it’s a street that helps drive the tourism wheels of the [...]

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So I’m here in Barcelona for the next 48 hours and I was lucky enough to attend the 14th Nokia World event. Less than an hour ago Nokia released it’s N97, probably, from the looks and specs of it, the most powerful device in the world. I’m actually blogging this from my N95 and it’s [...]

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I. AMMAN – The Criminal Court has sentenced a 21-year-old man to seven-and-a-half-years in prison for murdering his married sister in Jerash in January. …After the family went to sleep, the defendant interrogated his sister and asked her about her whereabouts during the time she was gone from her husband’s house, but she refused to [...]

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