The miserable statement for regulating Arab satellite media announced by the Arab information ministers at their "exceptional" recent meeting in Cairo caused a wave of negative reactions from many journalists, intellectuals and human rights institutions and media organizations in the Arab world. This united refusal of the document provided an ironic model for the Arab writers and journalists being... [read more]

No, this title is not a phrase in a typical Jordanian soap opera, but a very concerned observation about the 40 day silence of one of the best Jordanian bloggers, the one and only Khalaf. The last post by Khalaf, author of the famous "What's up in Jordan?" blog was on January 12th where he discussed in his typical sracastic and well articulated post the phenomenon of abandoned infants in Jordan... [read more]