It’s rather fascinating – sprinkled lightly with some historic irony – that the Arab world has immersed itself in another infatuation: Turkish leader Erdogan. His stance on Israel’s war on Gaza last year, as highlighted in his famed World Economic Forum lashing out made quite an impression during a highly emotional time for Arabs in [...]

As many people know by now, Prime Minister Samir Rifai held a meeting with a few bloggers, a meeting that I was invited to. This meeting seems to be referred to by almost everyone as a “secret” meeting. So secret that everyone who calls it a “secret” meeting found out about it from Al Ghad [...]

AP PHOTO – A Bedouin family is seen eating the traditional meal of Mensaf (meat, rice and yoghurt) inside their tent in Al- Jafr area, south of Amman. What a great photo. To read more about flying saucers in Jafr of a different kind…

“The political trust is gone….Economically, we were better off in trade and in movement before my father signed the peace treaty” – King Abdullah on relations between Israel and Jordan. In a The Wall Street Journal interview, King Abdullah offered a rebuke of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, charging that his policy of building homes [...]

How many times have you gone shopping for groceries only to find a red-plated government car parked outside? At the cinema? At malls? In various places where you would least expect a red-plated number to be? I only have two hands, but suffice to say my personal count is, at this point, immeasurable. Obviously, this [...]

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 [...]

AP PHOTO – A Jordanian man looks at clothes inside a lingerie shop at a shopping mall in Amman, Jordan. Jordanians, like the rest of the world, celebrate Valentine’s Day in the 14th of February every year.

As many probably know or have read by now, many of the Tawjihi results that were released yesterday were indeed false, due to, what is being reported by the Ministry of Education, as a technical error. The issue was naturally brushed aside as just a normal error that is simply no big deal. It probably [...]