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	<title>The Black Iris of Jordan</title>
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		<title>Palestinian Cartoons At The Balad Theater</title>
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Yesterday was the opening of gallery showcasing the work of the very young Palestinian cartoonist, Mohammad Sabaaneh, at the Balad Theater. His caricatures are pretty interesting, and some were even an eye-opener for me. One of the main differences in his work from all others, was the way he attempts to capture the Palestinian street. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.black-iris.com/2008/05/12/palestinian-cartoons-at-the-balad-theater/</link>
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		<title>Re.trac.tion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post. Is carefully worded. Because words. Still matter.  
They put you in a small room. Very small. No cell phone. No keys. Just walls. They send a soldier every now and then. He pretends to be your friend. He asks stupid questions. You give him stupid answers. They wait for you to get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.black-iris.com/2008/05/12/retraction/</link>
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		<title>Romantisizing Nasrallah</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the US, it really doesn&#8217;t feel like fall until network TV stations begin to air their fall season line up, and all our favorite shows come back on the air. That&#8217;s when you know fall has really begun. Similarly, in the Middle East, we know it&#8217;s summer when conflicts in the region begin to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.black-iris.com/2008/05/11/romantisizing-nasrallah/</link>
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		<title>Refacing Government Tender</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who says artists don&#8217;t do political messages? Or maybe it was just boredom. Check out the series on flickr. Here are some favorites:

Emo Lincoln

&#8220;300&#8243; Jackson

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		<title>Has Jordan Banned Al Nakba Commemorations!?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know how true this is&#8230;
Jordanian authorities have banned all events marking the &#8220;Nakba,&#8221; or Catastrophe, as Arabs refer to the creation of Israel 60 years ago. Several pro-Palestinian groups and Jordanian opposition parties has been planning to hold a rally in Amman on Friday.
But the authorities informed the organizers of the decision to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.black-iris.com/2008/05/10/has-jordan-banned-al-nakba-commemorations/</link>
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		<title>Movie Reviews &#124; Three Stories From Amman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night, three Jordanian short films were presented at the Balad Theater. Butterfly by Mohammad Hushki is a tale of a testosterone-ridden male and this two friends, who&#8217;s out to take his revenge on a cabdriver who molested his girlfriend. Fragile by Ahmad Amin brings together a day in the lives of five different people, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.black-iris.com/2008/05/09/movie-reviews-three-stories-from-amman/</link>
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		<title>The Orange Juice Murders (Of Irbid)</title>
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AMMAN (AFP) — A teenage woman was jailed for 15 years in Jordan on Wednesday for murdering her parents and two brothers by poisoning their orange juice, a court official said.
Hana al-Shamali, 19, was sentenced to prison and hard labour for the February killings in the city of Irbid, north of the Jordanian capital Amman, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.black-iris.com/2008/05/08/the-orange-juice-murders-of-irbid/</link>
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		<title>You Gotta Love Amerikans</title>
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		<title>Movie Review &#124; Iron Man</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nearly 45 years after his creation, Iron Man has come to the silver screen. I went to the early screening at Grand Cinema last night in eager anticipation for the first blockbuster movie of the season and thankfully, I wasn&#8217;t disappointed. The story begins as all good first superhero movies do, with the origins. Tony [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.black-iris.com/2008/05/07/movie-review-iron-man/</link>
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		<title>Blog About Palestine Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in. Are you?

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		<title>Shut Up And Take It!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jordanian security arrested three activists for distributing leaflets calling for a general strike to protest food prices and government policies that fail to help the poor, activists said on Sunday.
Khalid Kalaldeh, head of the leftist &#8220;Social Jordanian Movement&#8221;, told Reuters the arrests took place on Saturday when members of his small group handed out leaflets [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.black-iris.com/2008/05/06/shut-up-and-take-it/</link>
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		<title>Burma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[15,000
22,000

&#8230;and that&#8217;s all I have to say about that

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		<title>Speed Kills &#038; So Does Culture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past few months, there has been a campaign, if not a movement, to combat speeding cars and traffic accidents. From the Hikmet-related campaigns of mid-January, to the nation-wide campaign following the Jerash-road bus crash, to the introduction of tough traffic laws and their subsequent legislative rejection a few weeks later. Lately, we’ve seen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.black-iris.com/2008/05/05/speed-kills-so-does-culture/</link>
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		<title>More On Jordan&#8217;s Press Freedom Development Or Lack Thereof</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know it might feel a bit redundant after the past few days of picking on the subject extensively, but today there seems to be an overkill of news on our favorite topic.
First, a new study.
Around 46 per cent of the Kingdom’s journalists believe that the status of press freedoms did not change last year, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.black-iris.com/2008/05/04/more-on-jordans-press-freedom-development-or-lack-thereof/</link>
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		<title>World Press Freedom Day 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s not much for me to say that hasn&#8217;t already been said on the Black Iris before. So I will spare everyone the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.black-iris.com/2008/05/03/world-press-freedom-day-2008/</link>
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		<title>Tighter Media Controls? You Gotta Be Kiddin Me!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;flow my tears, the policeman said&#8230;
A study released on Thursday revealed that though many Jordanians support media freedoms, a majority support government restrictions when it comes to destabilising issues.
In the study, performed by WorldPublicOpinion.org and supported and coordinated by the Centre for Strategic Studies at the University of Jordan, 78 per cent of respondents agreed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.black-iris.com/2008/05/02/tighter-media-controls-you-gotta-be-kiddin-me/</link>
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		<title>Happy Labor Day Jordan!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In order to prevent unemployment rates from rising in Jordan, we have to create 80,000 jobs annually, or, in other words, a job every seven minutes,&#8221;. These words were recently spoken by HM Queen Rania at the opening of a conference in Amman on unemployment. 
I always found labor day in Jordan to be a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.black-iris.com/2008/05/01/happy-labor-day-jordan-2/</link>
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		<title>What Is Making You Read This Very Post Title Right Now?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nadine is a coworker. One of the few that compel me to come into work on some days. She is young, a mother, a wife and a woman who doesn&#8217;t take crap from anyone, and God forbid you should have the misfortune of crossing her one day.
With that in mind. 
Today she tells me in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.black-iris.com/2008/04/30/what-is-making-you-read-this-very-post-title-right-now/</link>
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		<title>Queen Rania&#8217;s Latest YouTube Video &#038; Jordan&#8217;s Working Women</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HM Queen Rania&#8217;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&#8217;ve come along way, and that&#8217;s an accomplishment that deserves to be highlighted because there are many women who have broken [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.black-iris.com/2008/04/28/queen-ranias-latest-youtube-video-jordans-working-women/</link>
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		<title>True</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The computer is a moron.&#8221;
        - Peter Drucker
          American management writer (1909 - 2005)

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		<title>Happy Easter Jordan!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To all Jordanian Christians, a happy Easter to you! The great thing about Easter this year, is that Safeway is selling those delicious Cadbury yolk eggs that you can usually only get in North America. But with a price tag of 1 dinar each, I think I&#8217;ll have to wait till Ramadan!

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		<link>http://www.black-iris.com/2008/04/27/happy-easter-jordan/</link>
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		<title>Learning From The Future In The Present</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.black-iris.com/2008/04/27/learning-from-the-future-in-the-present/</link>
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		<title>One Hundred Thirty Seven &#124; Fouad Farhan Is Free</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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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		<link>http://www.black-iris.com/2008/04/26/one-hundred-thirty-seven-fouad-farhan-is-free/</link>
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		<title>Dubai</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Watch 7iber dot com tomorrow for some interesting posts and a bit of live blogging.
My 6am Wake Up Call&#8230;

Purpose&#8230;

More Purpose&#8230;

The One and Only&#8230;


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		<title>Delicious Pickings &#124; Facebook Jog, Flickr Donuts &#038; The Colbert Bump</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.black-iris.com/2008/04/20/delicious-pickings-facebook-jog-flickr-donuts-the-colbert-bump/</link>
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		<title>A Sliver Of Humanity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I came upon this picture it, for some reason, captivated me. I sat staring at it for a good 5 minutes, soaking in this moment, this sliver of humanity. Those moments are rare these days, amidst the anger, frustration; the mob, the maddening crowd. We forget some times in the midst of all that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.black-iris.com/2008/04/20/a-sliver-of-humanity/</link>
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		<title>The Dawn Of New Media Storytelling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Besides varying artwork and font selections as well as hardcover or soft cover choices, I would argue little has changed in the publishing world during the past century when it comes to books (at least presentation-wise). But now, Penguin, one of the biggest publishers in the world, has started, what we might call, a web [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.black-iris.com/2008/04/19/the-dawn-of-new-media-storytelling/</link>
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		<title>Musical Charts Meme</title>
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		<title>The Last Thing He Ever Saw</title>
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A video grab shows the last frame of Reuters cameraman Fadel Shana before he was fatally wounded by an Israeli shell whilst working in the Gaza Strip April 16, 2008. Shana, a 23-year-old Palestinian, died after he stepped from his vehicle, apparently to film Israeli forces positioned several hundred metres (yards) away. Soundman, Wafa Abu [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.black-iris.com/2008/04/17/the-last-thing-he-ever-saw/</link>
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		<title>George Bush Gets His Revenge On Jon Stewart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After 7 years of getting slammed by Jon Stewart on the Daily Show, Bush gets his revenge on &#8220;the funny man&#8221;.



Will Ferrell as Bush w/Jon Stewart on FunnyOrDie.com
[via: Huffington Post]

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