There is something quite ludicrous if not downright ironic about these miniature protests against AFP for publishing a story last month about an “attack” on the King’s motorcade. These protests consist largely of crowds organized and led by parliamentarian Yahya Saud – this much is obvious – and last month these thugs stormed the AFP [...]

Image Source: New York Times The events of last Friday have been refresher course disenchantment. To be honest, the event itself may have gone “unnoticed” had there not been so many journalists there to document the event, and had many of them not been beaten, which has caused much of the ruckus in the aftermath. [...]

One of things that is perhaps the most difficult thing to explain to a non-Jordanian about Jordan, is regional relativity. To the average Jordanian, relativity is engrained in us. From birth, from parents, from relatives, from friends, from peers, from the government, from our leaders, from school books, and so on and so forth. From [...]