Some “Iraqi” bloggers are pissed off because they were subject to interrogation and detention for long hours at Queen Alia’s Airport-Amman before being denied entry to the country and having to go back to where they came from. Some went as far as saying that they’re used to mild discrimination by Jordanians, adding that this […]
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Tomorrow was declared a national holiday so that Jordanians will be able to go out and elect their favorite candidates.
This is my first municipal elections (actually my first elections, period), and although I don’t understand why do we need to take an entire day off inorder to vote I have welcomed the unexpected holiday with […]
Like normal beauty pageants are not bad enough, now we have beauty pageants for veiled women!
Wearing bikinis or covered from head to toe what’s the difference really? beauty is still measured by height and limited to a certain age. It still requires the knowledge of more than one language, as if speaking a second language […]
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 […]
When I was a child, I was taught that religions are very different from each other; shameless comparisons were made and repeated over the years claiming that all other religions are just the opposite of everything my religion is. If mine is merciful, then other religions are sadistic. If mine respects women, then other religions […]
Two teachers tied up a 2nd or 3rd grade female student and took turns in beating her, in one of Amman’s school. The teachers tied her up to the safety net of a window, and had another student watch her being tortured, perhaps to learn a lesson. Read the full story here (in Arabic)
But not […]
As homosexuality in the Arab world is beginning to crawl out of the closet, Islamic authorities are up for a new challenge to clarify Islam’s stand on the issue and direct the audiences to behave in a politically correct way that doesn’t contradict with the Islamic teachings.
Two years ago, a gay wedding in the […]
Man handed prison term for molesting his daughters By Rana Husseini
AMMAN — The Criminal Court has sentenced a 50-year-old Arab national to nine years and eight months in prison after convicting him of molesting his two daughters for the past 14 years.The defendant, who was arrested in January 2006, was convicted of molesting his […]
I’ve been thinking about this ever since I landed in Jordan: Should Jordanians abroad come back home? Does Jordan need them, do they need Jordan? Where is home? We have an Arabic proverb that says being poor in your country makes you a stranger, and being rich anywhere else makes you feel home. I partially […]
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