I am curious why Naseem Tarawneh has never mentioned this in his blog, but I was excited to read this month's issue of Jordan Business where our friend blogger talked to the prominant American writer and researcher John Esposito about his latest ground breaking book "Who Speaks for Islam?" which is an analytical description and discussion of six year survey by the Gallup Organization between 2001... [read more]

I was thrilled to find a very important book that I was looking forward to read while visiting Virgin Stores in City Mall. The book is "The Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace" by Avi Shlaim who is a prominant Israeli historian and expert in Middle East affairs.     The book was published in a summarised 20 episode series in Al-Sharq Al Awsat last year. By reading... [read more]

The following post should be read with this post from Naseem Tarawneh   I was just strating to energize my brain cells to write about a phenomenon I have long observed in the Jordanian blogs, when I read Nassems' fantastic post about the same issue entitled "Jordanian bloggers and blogging about the issues that really matter". The brilliant post and the lively debates in Naseem's blog form... [read more]

It is 1:00 Thursday morning and I have just finishing a task that should be submitted tomorrow morning. In fact this the 4th night in a row that I have to work late. Out of the blue came a glimpse of memory of my teenage years when some of the songs I used to like and adore echoed in my mind. I know that the main percentage of the readers of this blog are young (in their 20s) so most of them have... [read more]