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Queen Rania: It begins!
13Aug08Jordan’s Creative Community
15Jun08JOCR8 is a new online initiative to support art and connect creative people in Jordan.
Anyone can build a portfolio on Jocr8. Among creative Jordanians who have portfolios on the Website are Ala’a Dadan , Faridon Abida and Rami Al-Ramahi.
JoCr8 is a portal to connect visual communicators in Jordan. This includes everyone who practices any of [...]
Yesterday I was interviewed on Watan (Arabic for home country) FM’s Shabab (Arabic for youth). Watan is a new Jordanian radio station that started broadcasting in October, 2006; Watan FM broadcasts both political news and entertainment in Arabic.
The subject of the interview was blogging, the interesting phenomena which started in the Arab World only a [...]
I’m sick of detergents commercials, especially laundry detergents. Why? because they always involve a mother doing her family’s laundry, sometimes kids’ laundry and sometimes her successful husband’s white “dishdasha”. When is this gonna change? the stereotyping of women as housewives in commercials, who’s biggest dilemma is pleasing their husbands and making his clothes whiter than [...]
Beautiful
12Apr07“So You Think You Can Dance” is one of my favorite TV shows. Not that it matters but 8 months ago, TV didn’t even exist in my life, now I have favorite shows. This clip from Youtube is a contemporary dancing routine and the song playing is “Calling You” by Celine Dion. It’s by far [...]
This post is a reply to Bashir Goth’s article in which he linked to my post about Fair and Lovely’s TV commercials
First of all, I’d like to say that the title itself is really interesting, the article is more about sexualizing women everywhere than Islam and white skin; Goth talked about African women, women [...]
Al-Jazeera’s 10 Years on Air
05Nov06After nagging for almost two months now finally Al-Jazeera channel was added to the selection of 12 TV channels we’re allowed to watch at the dorm, we have/had Al-Arabiya (because they might have listened to me and replaced it with AJ) but I could never watch it for some reason, I think got addicted to [...]
It’s good to know that reason still exists.
London Fashion Week will no longer receive crucial funding from Mayor Ken Livingstone unless it bans “stick thin” models, his officials said today.
The London Development Agency has provided the twice-yearly event with £620,000 over the last three years and is about to enter talks with organisers over future [...]
Terrorism Has NO Religion
07Sep06I first saw the campaign on mbc2. I followed their link www.noterror.info and really liked what I saw. Their slogan is “Terrorism Has No Religion” and they focus especially on terrorism in Iraq. Please spread the word if you believe in what they believe.
Our message: To reveal the true and ample doctrines of Islam, and [...]
By Naseem Tarawnah
The word ‘peace’ has never seemed further from the recent realities that have gripped the region. Instead, the word ‘conflict’ seems to dominate the undertones of every blogger who’s been keeping track of the developments in Palestine; and even ‘conflict’ feels like a euphemism these days.
Fayyad at Kabobfest looks at “today’s word…root cause”, [...]
Mikael Pittam, Dave
Shaden, bambam
Shaden, morning dew, Farah, loolt
irulz, coconut, An American in France, The Opinion of the Common Human, Bill [...]
المشكلجي, Qwaider قويدر