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“Nothing is popularly held to be better than a dry martini, but worse than sand in the bed sheets. A poor man has it, a rich man needs it, and ...
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The Stanford prison experiment always fascinated me. It is a notorious experiment that took place over 40 years ago, in which a Stanford psychologist Philip Zimbardo turned the university’s department into ...
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“We ought then to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its anterior state and the cause of the one which is to follow. Given for ...
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Recently I have become really interested in philosophy. My knowledge of the subject is still very modest, but I like how it makes you question everything and most importantly how ...
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Jordan is a country which boasts of its freedom of religion quite openly. Christians have a quota in the parliament and there are churches quietly nestled in many corners around ...
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Posted: June 6th, 2012, 7:34pm UTC by farah654
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It’s been a frustrating couple of days for those keeping up with women’s rights in Jordan. The news about a 19-year-old who was exonerated after raping a 14-year-old girl in ...
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Forget all the politics for a while. Forget all the news about acquitting people so corrupt, that giving back 700 million JD back while keeping their god-knows-how-expensive Dabouq mansion is ...
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The government is considering applying a censorship on pornographic websites. For me, I find the whole idea of internet censorship ridiculous to begin with unless you’re using it to protect small ...
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“Now, there’s one thing you might have noticed I don’t complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? ...
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It seems that my posts have been reduced to tweets, but I felt like I needed to elaborate more on this topic as much as it infuriated me. A friend ...
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Posted: May 12th, 2011, 12:12am UTC by farah654
“The clear discrepancy between the king’s directives to the seven prime ministers he had entrusted to form governments in his twelve years of power—and the actual record of reform completed ...
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Haven’t written about Jordanian politics in quite some time, although it’s one of my favourite subjects on this blog. Reading this article made me want to write something about the Novemeber ...
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The people are so nice. This city’s great and I’m lovvvvving it! At some points, I wondered if I had made the right choice of picking this city and the ...
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It seriously bugs me how there are no movie theatres that show movies in their original language. Everything is dubbed into German. And I can’t download torrents or so as ...
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So my plans to blog daily about life in Germany have failed miserably. I started writing a travel diary but that lasted, what, two weeks? Ah well. Here is a ...
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I just cracked up while reading this essay by Mark Twain entitled “The Awful German Language”. I like languages so taking German courses at the university wasn’t too much of ...
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Sitting outside enjoying the cool Ammani breeze we have not experienced for a while, I realize I am really going to miss this place.You see next week, I will shipping ...
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Posted: July 8th, 2010, 1:54am UTC by farah654
Events in this country have ceased to surprise me. Few are the things that can still infuriate me. A survival mechanism, most probably, as otherwise I would have developed suicidal ...
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Reading this NY-Times article and this article by Ahmad Humeid brought this issue to mind, one that is extremely annoying, but I think after all these years we all found ...
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I don’t know whose brilliant idea this originally was, but someone on Twitter started posting their #Top50Jo or the top reasons they love Jordan, and it took off. Even Queen ...
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What’s been happening in Jordan for the past month has been truly unprecedented. Hummam al Balawi, a Jordanian informant pulled off the worst attack against the CIA in over 25 ...
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Ah registration. Ever since my first semester, it’s always been a stressful event. Despite there being an online system, students always have to try to register as soon as possible ...
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While the decision to dissolve the parliament about two weeks ago was met with pure joy and relief, the appointment of a new prime minister was met with either disappointment ...
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Yesterday I went to the second night of the Amman Comedy Festival that was organized by the Greater Amman Municipality and it was a great show! First of all, just ...
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City Light Hack is a project that was performed by the IEEE student branch in GJU in 30/10/2009 and was deemed a truly successful project, the first of its kind ...
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Reading the comments on this article, I had a hard time controlling my blood pressure. The article discusses sexual harassment against women and how it is still present in Ramadan. ...
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Ok so it seems a lot of people are entering this supposedly lucrative business of network or multilevel marketing, namely this company called Quest. If you’ve been approached, probably one ...
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The Black Iris is trying to make a campaign or a social experiment to see if we can do something other than complain, and I am more than happy to ...