Two years ago I was excited to read about the the first-ever Youth Smoking Prevention City in the Middle East which was to be established here in Jordan. I don’t know what kind of role is it playing in changing the status of smoking in Jordan, I’m not even sure it’s been established. In 2003 [...]
Archive for March, 2007
On Jordan’s Smoke Status
31Mar07This Month’s Art of Quitting
30Mar07Just Foreign Policy together with Jewish Voice for Peace are planning to deliver to the US Senate - particularly the Democratic presidential candidates - a petition against cluster bombs.
Millions of unexploded cluster “bomblets” were left scattered over southern Lebanon after Israel withdrew last summer. Lebanese civilians, particularly children, have been killed and maimed by these [...]
Mawal Falastine “Palestine Blues”, a documentry Palestinian film by Nida Sonnokrot will be screened tomorrow Friday 30th of March 2007 at 7:00 pm at Al-Balad Theater. For more details pleas visit Network of Arab Cineblues or contact The Royal Film Commission on +962 6 464 22 66.
Hat tip to Jazarah!
I have something at 6 tomorrow [...]
Please Go Home
28Mar07And donate expenses to poor people, fix a school, mend an old government building, widen a street, send someone to school or don’t but just please go home. I, as an Arab citizen appreciate your concern and the effort you’re making to discuss Palestine and Iraq but you know what, it’s getting old and pointless [...]
Captivity Banned from Billboards
27Mar07Billboards promoting the new movie Captivity were taken down in LA. The pictures were described as “shocking” and “disturbing” by people who caused the ban. Interesting, do you think these are shocking:
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This is a followup to this post. In the torturing, unbelievably annoying way of the Insider I’ll try to tell you what happened last night…
Why was Khaled surprised in this picture?
No clue. He looks startled in all the pictures.
Our meeting started at 6:00 PM and here’s the list of attendees:
1- Khaled (Palforce)
2- Khalidah
3- Oula [...]
It’s almost 12 AM now so I’ll leave you with a few pictures just to warm up. And to make The Insider and Inside Edition green with envy (BTW, I’m so sick of their Anna Nicole’s after-death coverage), here’s your special peek-a-boo into the night that was:
Why was Khaled surprised in this picture?
Who is this [...]
معظم القصص بالأردن بتبدأ بنÙس الجملة: “مرة وأنا بتاكسي..” وهذا Øال قصتنا.
مرة وأنا بتاكسي ولّا ÙÙŠ بنت زي Øالاتي هيك طولها شبر ونص بدها التاكسي يمرّرها، كنّا طالعين من الصويÙية ورايØين جهة ال السيÙواي، المهم التاكسي وقّÙلها عشان تمر مش لانّه Ù…Øترم لا Ø³Ù…Ø Ø§Ù„Ù„Ù‡ بس لانّه ما خلّتلو مجال. ومرّت المسكينة والØمدلله انّه سمع [...]
Khaled
adel, I Three Dots, Ali MetalHead, Waleed, G [...]
Anne Pham, Geronimo Cristobal
الختيار, Shaden, bambam
john, Dave, kinzi