It’s that time of year again. Building on past attempts to find the best Internet Service Provider (ISP) in Jordan, this year I’m faced with the same old decision: which operator to go with? Little has really happened on the development side in the ISP sector, with the exception perhaps of Kulacom and Mada entering [...]

The art of kissing ass, otherwise known as il-mujamaleh or haz dannab or maseh joukh, is not an exclusive art to the Jordanian landscape, but rather a worldwide occurrence. However, when it comes to Jordan, it is indeed elevated to an art form. Why? I have my theories. One of which is based on what [...]

I’ve had, what is arguably, one of the longest two weeks of my life. Excessively jet lagged, to say the very least. After a week in the US for a whirlwind tour that left me sleepless and physically drained, I jetted from San Francisco to New York to Amman and then Beirut, all in the [...]

Monday, March 15th 9am: I’m currently on a trip to the US this week, both to Washington DC and to San Francisco that is geared towards journalists and citizen journalists. The “social media tour” is essentially a schedule of meetings with the US State Department and the White House, being exposed to how the Obama [...]

I just wanted to write a quick post to thank all the Jordanian netizens that joined us online yesterday in support of a censorship-free Internet in Jordan on World Against Cyber Censorship Day. The issue of censorship itself is not an easy issue and it’s one that most Jordanians, including bloggers and various other active [...]

“More and more states are enacting or considering repressive laws pertaining to the Web, or are applying those that already exist, which is the case with Jordan” – Reporters Without Borders, Internet Enemies Report, March 12th 2010 While Jordan didn’t make this year’s Internet Enemies list, to join the likes of fellow Arab nations such [...]

Dear Jordanian Bloggers and Tweeps. March 12th is the World Day Against Cyber Censorship, which has been organized by the French-based organization, Reporters Without Borders (RWB) for a few years now. RWB will also be releasing their annual “Internet Enemies” list, which compiles the names of governments that have unfriendly cyber policies – and most [...]

My eyes expanded ten-fold early this morning upon reading this late-breaking news that four individuals have been detained on corruption charges related to the very controversial Jordan Petroleum Refinery Company. Normally this kind of news might fly under the radar with the expectation that those detained will likely be low-level employees, but upon reading the [...]