Asking The Right Questions: If you had 20 seconds of a policy maker’s time, on the world stage, what question would you ask? How would you ask it? What words would you choose?

Me, not paying attention

Maher wondering why his glorious Mac keeps crashing. Omar is a PC guy.
On the night before…

Cheap seafood

The “Old” […]

So we just landed about an hour ago here in Sharm El-Sheik, for the World Economic Forum. I’m going to try and blog as much as possible, with the Black Iris being reserved for more personal posts and misadventures (which people complain I don’t do enough of) while 7iber will become home base for some […]

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. - Walt Whitman
Well today is World Press Freedom Day, and there’s not much for me to say that hasn’t already been said on the Black Iris before. So I will spare everyone the […]

HM Queen Rania’s latest YouTube video attempts to showcase the evolution of women, specifically in Jordan. It presents a series of jobs and/or roles that women have taken on in the Kingdom.

I agree that we’ve come along way, and that’s an accomplishment that deserves to be highlighted because there are many women who have broken […]

Apologies for the non-blogging status lately, as well as the failed promise to do some live blogging from my Dubai trip due to technical difficulties. However, I’ve written a feature on 7iber about everything we did at the Learning From The Future workshop in Dubai these past few days, which I hope satisfies the curious […]

One Hundred Thirty Seven: The number of days Saudi blogger Fouad Farhan was stuck in jail without being charged.
Today, he is free.
- Forty
- Fifty
- Sixty One
- Sixty Two
- Sixty Three
- Sixty Four
- Sixty Five
- Sixty Six
- Seventy
- Eighty One
- Ninety
- One Hundred
- One Hundred Fifteen
We Are All Fouads

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Watch 7iber dot com tomorrow for some interesting posts and a bit of live blogging.
My 6am Wake Up Call…

Purpose…

More Purpose…

The One and Only…

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A few of my delicious pickings from the past few days. Pay particular attention to the more new-media-meets-real-world articles on Facebook and Flickr. I really found those interesting. Makes the world feel a bit smaller than it is.
Staring Contest: An Italian man was given a suspended jail sentence for staring too intensely at a […]

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Sometimes, when I read up on developments in Dubai, I get the feeling it’s a city that consists of a giant tub of money. Just a casual glance at some recent news might lead you to that conclusion:
- A Dubai-based Arab company has become the first ever in the world to charter a space craft […]

It’s been about 10 days or so, and HM Queen Rania’s first YouTube video has received over 1 million views and over 3,500 comments thus far. Today, she takes some time to give her early reaction to all the feedback.

[h/t: Nina]

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With the Arab blogosphere growing as rapidly as it is, it’s really tough enough keeping up to date with the new blogs that come out in Jordan, let alone follow blogs happening outside our own borders. And this premise is in itself strange. The Internet is meant to be border less. The geography and politics […]

Arabian Business published its 100 Most Influential Arabs list, and only 3 Jordanians made the cut. Wadah Khanfar, who runs Al Jazeera (all of it) at only 38 years old, is ranked 8th, while Fadi Ghandour of Aramex ranks 82. Emad Hajjaj however, is a new entry on the list, and now ranks 43, with […]

Despite my own daily rounds of the online world, I unfortunately missed an important event that took place a few weeks back on March 12th, and I’m kind of disappointed in myself. But I suppose, it’s better late than never, right? Well, apparently, on March 12th, a very interesting initiative took place, as Reporters Without […]

Here’s a selection of my delicious pickings for this week:
Hilary Death Watch Update: Hilary drops from 12% to a 9% chance of winning the Democratic nomination on Slate’s Death Watch. From Barack endorsements and superdelegates lead, Slate boils down what went wrong for Hilary this past week.
USA 2008: The Great Depression: Food stamps are the […]

“The US military bases and the presence of around 150,000 American soldiers in Iraq have made the United States one of the neighbouring states in the region.” - Prince Hassan, in a seminar on “Armament and Security in the Middle East” on Tuesday. [source]
The Prince also said he said he doesn’t expect US troops to […]