Remember when HM King Abdullah said that journalists wouldn’t be jailed any more? Well they can still be sued. As many know by now, Khalid Mahadin was just sued by the Lower House of Parliament for “slander” after publishing an article on Kheberni.com entitled, “For God’s Sake, Abdullah”, where he criticized members of Parliament. To [...]

Palestinian officials and analysts have linked the incident to the Jerusalem municipality’s eviction orders of more than 1,500 Palestinians living in some 180 houses in the East Jerusalem suburb of Silwan area. It will become the largest mass expulsion of Palestinians since the Israeli occupation in the 1967 war. [source We’ve been hearing this for [...]

A main headline today, as most of you might know already, is the opening of a trial for two Jordanian men who are accused of plotting to kill an Israeli business man who runs a QIZ factory in Irbid. The two men were not able to go through with it, but not before security forces [...]

An Arab man sat near the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City. Photo: Baz Ratner/Reuters [NYT] Waiting. If this picture doesn’t personify the Palestinian experience, I don’t know what does.

The other day I received an invitation to a meeting with the Prime Minister only a few hours before the meeting was actually held. Apparently, the point was for “electronic news sites” as our government loves to call them, to have a chat with Prime Minister Nader Dahabi. The post-meeting analysis was a brilliant review [...]

International markets took a huge plunge yesterday, with the Dow Jones hitting its lowest point since 1997. Everywhere, even here in Jordan, people are feeling the financial pinch. Jobs are being lost and those who still have them are fighting to keep them. Salary raises are almost out of the question. Except in the Jordan [...]

17% believe the government resorts to giving financial incentives to win journalists’ support, while 7% said giving information to particular journalists is a means the government uses to obtain their support…In addition, 49% of opinion leaders in the media sector were subjected to soft containment methods, the study showed…Of the polled journalists, 43% said they [...]

There’s no doubt about it, the talk of the town, if not the country this past weekend, has been about the “bad” weather, which in dry Jordan is actually considered good weather by the majority. Rain has been avoiding this little Kingdom like a kid avoids asparagus. Watching those meteorological reports these past few weeks [...]