If this blog were a child it would be starting the first grade. Isn’t that something? As I enter the seventh year of blogging, I can’t help but reflect for a moment. Not on the past, but the present. There were times when it seemed writing about the issues that I consider to be important [...]

I think, for the most part, the non-Arab world may never quite understand the connection Arabs have to Egypt. While the orientalist tendency has always been to lump everyone in this region in to one group, there is a failure to recognize the intricacies that weave in to the social fabric that blankets the Arab [...]

In the midst of all the chaos that is the American media punditry circle struggling to cover Egypt’s uprising, there’s Jon Stewart and the Daily Show doing a better job at putting things in their proper context. Or, at the very least, putting a smile on one’s face. Here are a couple of clips from [...]

I admit, it has become increasingly difficult to read Jordan these days. Even when you live here the mood of the street shifts subtly that it is difficult to grasp on to it. The excitement over the revolution in Egypt has quieted down, but far from dead. Very far. There is no doubt that Egypt [...]

This is an interesting piece of news today that is both strange and unverified so you’ll have to take it at the normal face value of news stories in the Kingdom. Jordan’s largest e-newspaper, AmmonNews, is claiming that it was essentially hacked by “unknown sources” last night after it published a statement of demands made [...]

I wanted to thank everyone who, in the past three days, sent my family and I condolences on the passing of my dear mother. Specifically those who visited, called, sent an SMS, emailed, sent me a tweet, messaged me on Facebook or left a comment on my wall (there are just too many forms of [...]

There is going to be a great deal of political analysis regarding HM King Abdullah’s appointment of Marouf Al Bakhit as the new Prime Minister of Jordan and the subsequent and relatively expected exit of Samir Rifai. When it comes to Jordan, such analysis is not only expect an hour after an appointment, but analysts [...]