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The debate that has been raging on both here in Jordan, and what I can safely assume the rest of the Arab World, regarding western military intervention has been ...
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Posted: September 3rd, 2013, 5:41pm UTC by Nas
This piece of news caught my attention today: In 2012, around 30 ICT firms, including gaming and content development companies, closed their offices and left the Kingdom…The government’s intention ...
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Posted: August 28th, 2013, 8:02pm UTC by Nas
Looking back at yesterday’s municipal elections, there’s very little one can offer by way of analysis but these are just random snippets of my personal observations. The same electoral ...
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Posted: August 26th, 2013, 5:00pm UTC by Nas
It seems every time elections role around, the so-called public “debate” tends to center on whether to vote or not. In an Arab Spring context, Jordanian elections have faced ...
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Posted: May 19th, 2013, 6:18pm UTC by Nas
In the context of endless rounds of violence on university campuses throughout the Kingdom in recent weeks, the Minister of Higher Education has reportedly proposed a plan to “stomp ...
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Posted: March 20th, 2013, 2:57am UTC by Nas
In the past 48 hours, the lengthy article published in The Atlantic, based on various interviews conducted with HM King Abdullah, has been making the media rounds. (For those who ...
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Posted: January 3rd, 2013, 4:15pm UTC by Nas
In the past few weeks and months it has grown increasingly difficult to understand where Jordan is going. For anyone relying on western media they would be inclined to think ...
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Posted: December 18th, 2012, 8:04pm UTC by Nas
It’s been awhile since I’ve written anything on the black iris and that’s largely due to being a bit jaded with the political scene of the country. So, instead, the ...
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Posted: October 24th, 2012, 11:38am UTC by Nas
“For those who want additional reforms or want to develop the Elections Law, they can work from under the Dome of Parliament and through the ballot boxes, which are the ...
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Posted: October 23rd, 2012, 8:03pm UTC by Nas
By now, most of the world has become well aware of an alleged terror plot driven by 11 Jordanians, which sought to target key places throughout the Capital. At a ...
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I cannot say I am surprised at the news of the royal seal approving amendments to the press and publications law. There was, deep down, a part of me who ...
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Photo Courtesy of: Jordan Open Source Association Once upon a time, the Jordanian government thought that censoring the Internet was actually a bad thing. In fact, the government felt that ...
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Today, amendments to the Press and Publications law will be coming out of committee and on to the Lower House floor for a discussion and a probable vote. All signs ...
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Posted: August 27th, 2012, 7:51pm UTC by Nas
This is a subject that, I admit, I have avoided writing about like the plague, and for good reason. After months of witnessing a group absurdly demanding the government actually ...
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Posted: July 10th, 2012, 5:57pm UTC by Nas
“Indeed, brother: the law is now above everyone!!” Jordan has always had a casual relationship when it comes to the application of the law, and both the state and the ...
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Posted: July 8th, 2012, 6:28pm UTC by Nas
There are no words I can conjure to appropriately describe my lack of enthusiasm for our parliament and its members. A chamber that is filled with people who have ...
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Posted: May 1st, 2012, 3:46pm UTC by Nas
Try as I might, there are things in Jordan that I cannot fully comprehend, and will often times shock me. The state of the country’s young population is one ...
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Posted: April 29th, 2012, 8:58am UTC by Nas
Still trying to wrap my head around the Khasawneh resignation and despite all the heated rhetoric being thrown around in the press, and the attacks being launched upon ...
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Posted: April 25th, 2012, 9:09pm UTC by Nas
The state of Jordanian parliament today reminds me of the Dead Sea. It’s the lowest point on Earth, it’s a body of water where nothing can survive, and it ...
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Posted: April 2nd, 2012, 9:53pm UTC by Nas
After some limited so-called public outrage over moves by Parliament to amend the Passport law to grant themselves permanent diplomatic passports – along with royal family members, senators, royal ...
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Posted: March 25th, 2012, 12:50am UTC by Nas
Every now and then, we all need a break, and I certainly needed one. Especially from the bubble that is social media, where one day you wake up and ...
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Posted: February 21st, 2012, 12:13am UTC by Nas
“God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our ...
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 9:09pm UTC by Nas
The headline came as no shock. Jordan is the fifth most militarized nation in the world according to the 2010 BICC Global Military Index. Only Israel, Singapore, Syria and Russia are ...
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Posted: January 29th, 2012, 3:50pm UTC by Nas
An 18 year old Jordanian burned a picture of the King a few weeks back during a protest, and has since been sentenced to two years by a military ...
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Posted: January 19th, 2012, 3:40pm UTC by Nas
The Centre for Strategic Studies polled 1,950 Jordanians on the state of the country, and the results were quite interesting. I won’t go in to the gritty details ...
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Posted: January 19th, 2012, 2:45pm UTC by Nas
Last Tuesday, upon flipping through a hardcopy issue of Al Ghad newspaper, I fell upon a strange article, which, loosely translated, was titled: “Kissinger: Deaf is he who ...
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Posted: January 15th, 2012, 1:49am UTC by Nas
I thought these images were quite interesting and worth posting up. While the Baptism site is considered one of Jordan’s national treasures, and rightly so, to say nothing of ...
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Posted: January 10th, 2012, 5:02pm UTC by Nas
As an adjective, “pop” is typically defined as something that is sudden in nature; a phenomenon in a sense. It is often short-lived, but its transient shelf-life can last ...
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Posted: January 4th, 2012, 10:32pm UTC by Nas
image courtesy of tareeq
I’ve always felt that the pillar that tends to hold a country together is it’s justice system. Ours, while better ...
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Posted: January 3rd, 2012, 5:39pm UTC by Nas
As the year draws to a close, I’ve been forcing myself these past few days to reflect on the events of the last 12 months. It’s ...
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Posted: December 8th, 2011, 9:33am UTC by Nas
Lands registered in the HM King Abdullah’s name. It’s been an issue that is often talked about, just not in any documented fashion. Few in media want to touch ...
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Posted: November 14th, 2011, 10:00pm UTC by Nas
September 6th, 1977: Jordan’s King Hussein holds a press conference in Paris, France.
Every year, HM King Hussein is quietly remembered on the day that ...
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Posted: October 31st, 2011, 7:42pm UTC by Nas
Q: If you look five years down the line, do you see yourself relinquishing some power to the parliament?
“Probably sooner. We haven’t ...
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Posted: October 27th, 2011, 3:30pm UTC by Nas
Since I haven’t published a Thursday Feel Good post for nearly a year now (and that should tell you something about our state of affairs) I thought this would ...
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Posted: October 10th, 2011, 4:23pm UTC by Nas
REUTERS: A Jordanian supporter of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad holds his picture as she shouts slogans against Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan during a protest against Turkish intervention in ...
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Posted: October 9th, 2011, 6:38pm UTC by Nas
Senators have been forced to quit and ministers have handed in their foreign passports to their respective embassies. This has all been part of the latest constitutional amendment taking ...
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Posted: October 8th, 2011, 11:48pm UTC by Nas
Stumbling on two articles today, I couldn’t help but note the connection.
Documents that have recently surfaced prove that Shell oil company worked ...
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Posted: October 6th, 2011, 6:23pm UTC by Nas
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
nuff said.
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Posted: October 3rd, 2011, 8:13pm UTC by Nas
I’m here in Tunisia for the next four days at the third Arab Bloggers meeting, which has brought together what I think are some of the most significant digital ...
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7iber’s Hashtag Debates are returning tomorrow at Makan House in Jabal Luwebideh and the issue of the moment will be Jordan’s constitutional reforms. This is a discussion I’ve ...
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“I think my best way to describe my view toward Israel is my increasing frustration because they’re sticking their head in the sand and pretending that there’s ...
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This is quite an interesting story that’s been developing this week. Faris Sharaf, the now former governor of the Central Bank, handed in his resignation earlier this week ...
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I cannot recall the last time I saw a protest anywhere near the US embassy in Amman. Those familiar with it know that it is essentially a fortress ...
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If there was ever a story that just refused to die, this would be it. Just when we thought casinogate had found some resolution with PM Bakhit being ...
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Posted: September 9th, 2011, 6:54pm UTC by Nas
When it comes to documentaries, there’s a lot one has come to expect of Morgan Spurlock. The ability to take an idea that most of us have all thought ...
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Posted: September 8th, 2011, 9:07pm UTC by Nas
Yesterday, a group of Jordanian bloggers (mostly tweeps) were invited to have a discussion with Foreign Minister, Nasser Judeh. The meeting was informal and some of what was said ...
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Posted: September 7th, 2011, 8:13pm UTC by Nas
RETUERS: Jordan fans hold pictures of Jordan’s King Abdullah during their 2014 World Cup Asian zone qualifying soccer match against China in Amman September 6, 2011.
This ...
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Posted: August 22nd, 2011, 5:25pm UTC by Nas
The Arab Spring has had it’s ups and downs. What began with a man lighting a single match in Tunisia, has spread throughout the region like a wildfire, leaving ...
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Posted: August 20th, 2011, 8:45pm UTC by Nas
In the past week or so, much of the political sphere has been abuzz with the proposed constitutional reforms that come out of several months of deliberation by an ...
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Posted: June 28th, 2011, 6:20pm UTC by Nas
This ongoing story about the so-called “casino deal” has just been one mess after the other, and it just doesn’t seem to want to go away. In 2007, ...
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Posted: June 18th, 2011, 6:01pm UTC by Nas
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Posted: June 17th, 2011, 12:49am UTC by Nas
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Posted: June 15th, 2011, 6:46pm UTC by Nas
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Posted: June 9th, 2011, 5:12pm UTC by Nas
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Posted: May 29th, 2011, 8:00pm UTC by Nas
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Posted: May 25th, 2011, 11:23pm UTC by Nas
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Posted: May 25th, 2011, 10:03pm UTC by Nas
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Posted: April 5th, 2011, 5:11pm UTC by Nas
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Posted: March 31st, 2011, 3:57pm UTC by Nas
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Posted: March 29th, 2011, 2:11am UTC by Nas
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Posted: March 29th, 2011, 10:53pm UTC by Nas
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Posted: March 26th, 2011, 2:15am UTC by Nas
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Posted: March 12th, 2011, 10:33pm UTC by Nas
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Posted: March 10th, 2011, 5:29pm UTC by Nas
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Posted: February 20th, 2011, 2:12pm UTC by Nas
If this blog were a child it would be starting the first grade. Isn’t that something?
As I enter the seventh year of blogging, I can’t help ...
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Posted: February 13th, 2011, 8:32pm UTC by Nas
I think, for the most part, the non-Arab world may never quite understand the connection Arabs have to Egypt. While the orientalist tendency has always been to lump everyone ...
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Posted: February 9th, 2011, 11:35am UTC by Nas
In the midst of all the chaos that is the American media punditry circle struggling to cover Egypt’s uprising, there’s Jon Stewart and the Daily Show doing a better ...
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Posted: February 7th, 2011, 10:10am UTC by Nas
I admit, it has become increasingly difficult to read Jordan these days. Even when you live here the mood of the street shifts subtly that it is difficult to ...
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Posted: February 6th, 2011, 8:59pm UTC by Nas
This is an interesting piece of news today that is both strange and unverified so you’ll have to take it at the normal face value of news stories in ...
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Posted: February 3rd, 2011, 5:58pm UTC by Nas
I wanted to thank everyone who, in the past three days, sent my family and I condolences on the passing of my dear mother. Specifically those who visited, called, ...
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Posted: February 2nd, 2011, 7:34pm UTC by Nas
There is going to be a great deal of political analysis regarding HM King Abdullah’s appointment of Marouf Al Bakhit as the new Prime Minister of Jordan and ...
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Posted: January 27th, 2011, 7:30pm UTC by Nas
Jordanian cartoonist Emad Hajjaj has done some interesting work recently on the various political developments in the Arab world that have dominated the news this past month or ...
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Posted: January 27th, 2011, 12:40pm UTC by Nas
REUTERS: Abu Mohammad, an 83-year-old Palestinian refugee, speaks to Reuters TV at Al Hussein Palestinian refugee camp in Amman January 25, 2011. A proposal by Palestinian negotiators to exclude ...
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Posted: January 24th, 2011, 6:47pm UTC by Nas
Reform in Jordan has always been an uneasy path. It is, in most cases, a ludicrous dance consisting of one step forward and three steps backwards, often times in ...
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