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Monday, June 23, 2008 - Posts

• Ministry of Health detects 20 cases of Homosexuality in Jordan

  The first thing that got on my mind when I read this headline in the local papers (Only 20!), man I see more at my gym in one day. The Ministry of Health has issued that it has detected only 20 homosexual cases in Jordan and that this is not a common Read More... Posted 23-06-2008 11:48 from Ali | 0 Comments

• Freedom

  Read More... Posted 23-06-2008 11:30 from Sanitary Measures | 0 Comments Filed under Jordan, Photography, Photograph

• God doesn't take that much trouble over the formation of a man who

  "God doesn't take that much trouble over the formation of a man who..." That is a beautiful line, isn't it? The second part continues within the context of the story in ' The Pillars of the Earth ' to explain how the guy with all that history of pain Read More... Posted 23-06-2008 10:22 from The Arab Observer | 0 Comments

• Live Blogging From … Heaven

  We are house-sitting for friends right now in a breathtakingly beautiful place. A lovely home with a pool, surrounded by wild wooded hills untouched by humanity; so far removed our cell-phones don't even work! Deer roam as commonly as cars. Foxes, opossums Read More... Posted 23-06-2008 02:30 from my treasure | 0 Comments

• Hummus: The Rap

  I’m loving GoRemy Tags: hummus, goremy, comedy, video Read More... Posted 23-06-2008 11:31 from Jad's thoughts | 0 Comments Filed under video, Videos, comedy, goremy, hummus

• protecting our ancient sites from vandals

  Should we have concerts and other events at our antiquity sites? It was a great experience to sit in the theatre downtown the other evening but have we counted the cost of tons of equipment brought into sites that need protection? Petra, Jerash, the Amman Read More... Posted 23-06-2008 09:12 from Jordan Journals | 0 Comments

• My Selection for Jordan's 30 influential people 2008

  Jordan Business Magazine is yet aiming to identify the 30 most influential people in Jordan (apart from the Royal Family) and for this purpose have designed a good voting system. The results should apear in the July edition. Here is my own list of the Read More... Posted 23-06-2008 07:36 from Jordan Watch | 0 Comments Filed under Jordan Economy, Political Reform

• Ten Books that Shaped the World

  I would like to share with you this fascinating speech by Dr Ismail Serageldin, the Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and the former vice president of the World Bank for Water and Environment. Dr Serageldin is a phenomenal person with an encyclopedic Read More... Posted 23-06-2008 07:16 from Jordan Watch | 0 Comments Filed under Education, Books and Literature

• Survey for Ammanites

  My cousin Basem has a project and has very, very nicely asked me to post this little, teeny, weeny 3-question survey for him. If you live in Amman, please take half a minute to fill it out. It won't take much of your time, I promise! Thanks! http://www.makesurvey.net/cgi-bin/survey.dll/30FCA3C7140A4412B9DE5F35BCB3A68 Read More... Posted 23-06-2008 06:42 from And Far Away | 0 Comments

• تعريب الفكرة

  في الشهور القليلة الماضية عادت إلي فكرة الكتابة باللغة العربية و التي كانت تراودني في فترات متقطعة سابقة. فأنا في البداية كنت أكتب القصص القصيرة و القصص البوليسية (في إطار التأثر بأجواء روايات أجاثا كريستي التي كانت شقيقتي تملك الكثير منها) بالعربية فقط Read More... Posted 23-06-2008 05:14 from Tololy's Box | 0 Comments Filed under Arabic

• "الصحة" ترصد 20 مثليا جنسيا في المملكة

  Read More... Posted 23-06-2008 03:04 from The Arab Observer | 0 Comments

• Which Lost Character are you?

  Which Lost Character Are You? More on Lost . Created by BuddyTV I am going to cheat my way to get a "Jack" Character. I always wanted to be a doctor :s although I faint when I see Blood, but wth! oh Juliet is a doctor too..right? a Nurse? :s PS : Juliet Read More... Posted 23-06-2008 02:40 from M For Mystery | 0 Comments

• FIFA through the ages

  Since the Euro Cup is not the freshest subject right now, lets take a minute to commemorate the various designs of the FIFA World Cup instead. One of the reasons I came to love design so much is because it manages to sort of portray a decade. The colors, Read More... Posted 23-06-2008 02:29 from And Far Away | 0 Comments

• Cause you know, there’s no one from home to support

  When did so many people start rooting for Spain? Sarah is espanaaaaaaaa... Oraib is Spain "We Are Still The Championsssssssssss ." Ola is glad that Spain won because they deserved it, and realized how much Italy SUCKS. Zeina is only stating facts :P and Read More... Posted 23-06-2008 01:25 from And Far Away | 0 Comments

• Girls: Italy is out of Euro 2008

  Italy is kicked out of Euro 2008 after their deserved loss against the Great Spanish Team, Spain made it right finally and won Italy in their (Friday 13) in their Bad luck day: 22 June, as they have lost the quarter final game in this day three times Read More... Posted 23-06-2008 12:29 from Rani the Brainy | Rani Dababneh | 0 Comments Filed under Sports, Soccer, Analysis, LOL