Author’s Note: This is, unfortunately, my 14th post on Fouad Al Farhan’s detention by Saudi authorities; 11th in the series of day-counting. So I felt it only appropriate to say a few words to mark the sad occasion. I think most of these posts pass unnoticed by most of my readers, and indeed most people […]

As I now enter my fourth year of blogging I thought it would be appropriate to do a bit of spring cleaning; an evaluation with the purpose of improving both the Black Iris and my blogging capacity. While I hate surveys and trust them even less, I do appreciate honesty. So I wanted to open […]

Earlier today I spoke at the United Nations University in Amman, in a conference entitled “Media in the New Global World Order: Media, Economy & Development”. The conference focused a great deal on leadership in the media sector, specifically with regards to economic reporting. The session I was asked to speak in concerned the challenge […]

Radio Al Balad on Saturday sent a letter of apology to the Lower House for reading a comment on air deemed insulting to the Chamber of Deputies and called for allowing the station to resume broadcasting sessions, which were halted last week. In the letter, addressed to Lower House Speaker Abdul Hadi Majali, Radio Al […]

Ninety: The latitude of the North Pole and the South Pole.
Ninety: The number of minutes in a football (soccer) match.
Ninety: The number of Psalms credited to Moses
Ninety: The year Ptolemy, Greek mathematician, is born.
Ninety: The number of days Saudi blogger Fouad Farhan has been stuck in jail as of today. He is yet to be […]

No one liked the last Lower House but this one is just acting retarded these days. AmmanNet, which is now Radio Al-Balad, has been banned from broadcasting the Lower House of Parliament sessions because apparently they’ve insulted MP’s. Apparently the “insult” came by way of a comment posted by a reader on January 29th.
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Eighty One: Year Roman Emperor Titus dies
Eighty One: Number of provinces in Turkey
Eighty One: Number of stanzas in the Tao te Ching
Eighty One: The number of days Saudi blogger Fouad Farhan has been stuck in jail as of today. He is yet to be charged.
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Foreign Policy’s Editor-in-chief, Moisés Naím, wrote an interesting article in The Times the other day about Fidel Castro’s blog. While the article delves into the political and economic future of Cuba, which interested me as a writer and student, there is perhaps a different angle to the story that interested me as a blogger. It […]

I’ve been following this story since early February and waiting to see if and when Mourtada would be charged by the Moroccan government for creating a Facebook profile of Morocco’s Crown Prince. I had initially thought he would eventually be let go for such a silly thing, since it wasn’t like he was blogging about […]

This officially makes it the longest running blog on Queen Zein Al-Sharaf Street. So to celebrate, I will spare people any required reading or lengthy speeches this time around. Suffice to say, my third year of blogging was by far the coolest, as it was the first year spent on blogging about Jordan while IN […]

Seventy: Number of souls that went down to Egypt to begin the Hebrew’s Egyptian exile (Genesis 46:27)
Seventy: Approximate year the building of Rome’s Colosseum began.
Seventy: Years of marriage representing the platinum wedding anniversary.
Seventy: The number of days Saudi blogger Fouad Farhan has been stuck in jail as of today. He is yet to be charged.
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Sixty Six: The number of hot dogs eaten by World record holder Joey Chestnut in 15 minutes at the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Championships in 2007.
Sixty Six: Noah Webster completed his American Dictionary of the English Language 1825 at age 66
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Sixty Five: The code for international direct dial phone calls to Singapore.
Sixty Five: The year Emperor Nero kills his pregnant wife, Poppea Sabina, with a kick to the stomach.
Sixty Five: The number of days Saudi blogger Fouad Farhan has been stuck in jail as of today. He is yet to be charged.
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Sixty Four: The maximum number of strokes in any Chinese character
Sixty Four: The amount of crayons in the popular Crayola 64 pack
Sixty Four: In chess or checkers, the total number of black and white squares on the game board.
Sixty Four: The number of days Saudi blogger Fouad Farhan has been stuck in jail as of […]

Sixty Three: The year Augustus Octavius Caesar, the first Roman Emperor, was born.
Sixty Three: The atomic number of europium.
Sixty Three: The number of days Saudi blogger Fouad Farhan has been stuck in jail as of today. He is yet to be charged.
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Sixty Two: The atomic number of samarium
Sixty Two: Age of David Ben-Gurion upon becoming Israel’s 1st Prime Minister
Sixty Two: The number of days Saudi blogger Fouad Farhan has been stuck in jail as of today. He is yet to be charged.
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We Are All Fouads

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