I just got through the fifth and final season of HBO’s The Wire and this may be as good as television gets. While it never got the ratings it deserved, the critics were all over this show for its realistic portrayal of life on the streets of Baltimore. For those who haven’t yet seen it, […]

Everyone’s been talking about that Obama speech, but Jon Stewart, everyone’s favorite Jew, gauges all three speeches made to “Oy! Pac” (AIPAC), the most powerful American-Israeli lobby in the US, and points out some pretty funny and blatantly obvious observations:

h/t: sabbah

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Oh. My. God.

I am blown away by this series’ writers and producers who have an uncanny way of storytelling that is perhaps light years beyond what any other show on TV has been producing. Nothing is lost in the story, everything finds a way to tie itself together, which is an enormous task considering the […]

I came down with the flu for what I believe was the past 3 days. In between sleeping a lot, drinking orange juice a lot, and staying in bed with my laptop trying to do some writing, I discovered the HBO series Rome. The show runs for only two seasons and it chronicles one of […]

Bab il-7ara was a big hit this year during Ramadan, and in fact people still seem to be talking about it in Jordan. I’ll admit right off the bat that I was too busy to watch more than 4 or 5 whole episodes but I found it astonishing to see the wide spectrum of people […]

A lot of people have been talking about this around town lately, since Laylat il-Qadr, but only recently did I get to watch it:

“It was an emotionally charged scene worthy of an Oprah Winfrey show when a mother and son who had been parted for 25 years were reunited on live TV. However the American […]

Let me make this clear right off the bat. I don’t watch much TV. Ever since I got back to Jordan I’ve been avoiding it like the plague. Don’t get me wrong, I have a TV in my room but it is dedicated solely to movie watching, which I do plenty of. But no actual […]

somewhere…in the corner of a very dark room…my childhood has curled itself into the fetal position while rapidly sucking its thumb.
Despite the sad realities of Israeli occupation, you would think Hamas would give its own country’s kids a chance at a childhood instead of a monochrome world view.

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