Folks, I know that those of us who are still sane have been massively affected by the “Messenger of Allah Unites Us” campaign in Jordan that is boycotting Danish products. Suddenly, Lurpak, our favorite butter is no longer sold in stores, and I know, I know, we were all shocked to our core when we [...]

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. According [...]

Egyptian female judges can’t be alone CAIRO — Egyptian women must not sit as judges because it would be against Islamic law or Sharia as they would have to spend time alone with men, a male Egyptian judge was quoted as saying Saturday. [source] That was back in March, 2007. This week, comes this lovely [...]

Brought to you by JPA President, Tareq Momani, in a Jordan Times article: …But Jordan Press Association President Tareq Momani disagreed with the results of RWB’s index. He said Jordan stands at a position of “relative freedom of press”, explaining that on a scale of one to one hundred, the Kingdom would be around the [...]

…Waiters at several coffee shops in the capital said the popularity of argileh increases “greatly” in Ramadan. “Demand on argileh triples in Ramadan. Some young people who come to the Ramadan tents order argileh just to try it,” one waiter in a neighbourhood in west Amman told The Jordan Times. But Bassem Hijjawi, director of [...]

I don’t know anymore. I would say it’s a sad day, but I can’t remember one that wasn’t. Long story short, the Jordanian government is going on, what can best be described as, an anti-online free speech jihad. A decision has been made to monitor websites (most likely including the rising popularity of blogs) and [...]

One-fifth of Americans can’t find their own country on a map? A Miss Teen USA contestant tells us why… And to think that once upon a time, American educational institutions were hotbeds for political dissent. Suffice to say, students protesting the war on Iraq in the same manner their grandparent’s did in the 60′s, is, [...]

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before… Nancy held a press conference a few hours before her concert at the Radisson Sass in Amman, Jordan. As she was talking about her participation in the Jerash Festival and everything was going as planned, an Israeli Journalist from ‘ Yadiot Ahranot’ newspaper disrupted and asked Ajram [...]