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If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’ll go visit Uncle Bassam in Tulkarem after I obtain a Tasreeh (an Israeli pass permit) and when The Bridge is open, OK Dad?” My elder son, Noor said.
Noor [...]
Early last century, the biggest threat to the Hejaz Railway was Britain’s T.E. Lawrence and his camel-mounted Arab rebels, who sabotaged the desert track to attack trains packed with Turkish soldiers.
Today, a lack of passengers and improved highways may kill off the Hejaz Train once and for all, a quiet demise for a train that [...]
Over a week ago, tens of thousands of people attended what they thought to be the biggest Palestinian wedding ever, in addition to the huge media coverage. A mass wedding ceremony sponsored by the Islamic Jihad organization in the Gaza Strip, 222 Gazan couples got married in Gaza city on Friday, 22 July 2005. But [...]
In my to-do-list, I always wanted to meet some/all of Jordan Bloggers, and that wish came true last night. On top of that, it was more pleasant to have Ethan Zuckerman from Global Voice attending and sponsoring this meeting.
Having said that, you can imagine how interesting it was. Starting from the place we meet at, [...]
Pop singer and a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Ricky Martin during his visit to the Art Center of the Noor al-Hussein Foundation in Amman - Jordan (July 24, 2005). Martin, who was a guest-of-honour at the Arab Children Congress, met participants from the Arab Children Congress and toured creative workshops.
Photo: A Palestinian girl puts a Palestinian [...]
The latest survey by the Pew Global Attitudes Project, called Islamic Extremism: Common Concern for Muslim and Western Publics and conducted among more than 17,000 people in 17 countries this spring, finds that while many Muslims believe that radical Islam poses a threat (to Americans and Westerns), there are differing opinions as to its causes. [...]
Jordan’s Ministry of Culture rejected Islamists’ requests to ban two Arab women singers from entering Jordan because of their allegedly provocative videos.
Culture Minister Amin Mahmoud rejected the request by the Islamic Movement to prohibit Egyptian singer - Ruby and Lebanese singer - Maria from participating in a local festivals.
The Jordanian Islamists cited moral and ethical [...]
Summer is the festival season in Arab countries, or at least in those countries where tourism represents a considerable percentage of national income, such as Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, some of the Gulf States, Tunisia and Morocco. A quick glance at the events scheduled in some of the Arab countries reveals, for example, that this summer [...]
It’s been 5 days now in Jordan. Very peaceful time, waking up late, and enjoying the figs served out from my bedroom window as you can see
As usual, every night, few of our relatives comes to visit us and of course ask us “when are we going to have lunch” with them? This [...]
A novel Saddam Hussein reportedly finished writing a day before the U-S-led war in Iraq began will be published next week. The book includes a dedication from his daughter which reads: “to the one who taught us all the great values.”
Saddam Hussein’s family will publish next week a novel written by the ousted Iraqi leader [...]
The Jordan River, where Jesus was reportedly baptized, is now just an extra-large toilet.
Jordan River threatened by dams and sewage
By Ibon Villelabeitia, Fri Jun 24, 9:08 AM ET
Reuters
The Jordan River, where Christians believe Jesus was baptized, is heavily polluted with sewage and is in danger of drying up after decades of conflict and intense agricultural [...]
(Guardian) Saudi women cannot drive, but apparently they can fly.
A Saudi woman who recently obtained her pilot’s license in Jordan said Thursday she has been hired by a private aviation company to fly commercial planes.
Although proud of her career, Capt. Hanadi Zakaria al-Hindi said she expects an angry reaction when she arrives back in Saudi [...]
A couple of weeks ago, the news headlines mentioned lightly the new “Israel, Arabs agreement to save Dead Sea:“
Jordan , Israel and the Palestinian Authority said they had agreed terms for a feasibility study on transferring water from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea, to save the world’s lowest sea from vanishing.
The two-year study, [...]
It’s not only in our blood, it’s even in our hair styles. That is Politics!
I don’t recall attending any festival, shows, conferences, even business workshops around the Arab world, without having a touch of politics in it. It seems that we are born with a destiny to live a daily political cyclone. Is it a [...]
Here’s some good news from the Jordan: Israel, Iran, Syria, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Palestine Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Algeria, Jordan and many other countries from around the globe (click below graph for a list of other countries), need no “Open SESAME magic” to be able to cooperate on an advanced scientific project.
In [...]
The good news:
Gulf Finance House (Bahrain) Unveiled the concept and vision of its latest project - Jordan Gate & Royal Village - the US$1 billion Royal Metropolis in Jordan.
Jordan Gate - the first phase of the Royal Metropolis project - will be a futuristic development comprising two high-rise towers connected by a multi-storey podium. [...]
Saudi Arabia received the lowest rating on women’s freedom in a new survey released at the World Economic Forum 2005 - Jordan.
The survey, conducted by the Freedom House, is the first comparative assessment of women’s rights in 17 nations in the Middle East and North Africa.
It found a “substantial deficit of women’s rights … Women [...]
The Jordanian Committee for the International Petra Beauty Festival has announced that it will present Lebanese singer Haifa Wahbi with the �Beauty and Arts� Award. The festival will take place in Amman Jordan at the end of May and will feature the latest trends in fashion and hairstyles for women.
Haifa was nominated for the prestigious [...]
Russia’s Federal Security service said today it foiled planned terror attacks ahead of Victory in Europe celebrations, discovering a truck packed with more than a ton of explosives and a cache of poisons allegedly intended for chemical attacks.
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