Jordan's Free Voices

Saturday, July 19, 2008 - Posts

• Two Years later… Yaqubian building

  As I was flicking through my pictures, I found those two… they were taken two years ago in the heart of Cairo… I was fascinated with the idea of a non-fiction fiction… and even though it was my least day in Cairo, I made it a mission to find out if the Read More... Posted 19-07-2008 10:19 from Driven by Curiosity... | 0 Comments Filed under Books

• The Foreign-Born Candidate

  After all the smears and innuendo about Obama's being insufficiently "American", this ( ht ) is too ironic: Senator McCain was born in 1936 in the Canal Zone to U.S. citizen parents. The Canal Zone was territory controlled by the United States, but it Read More... Posted 19-07-2008 05:41 from Philosophy, et cetera | 0 Comments Filed under politics - electoral

• Idol Dilemma?

  Do we have an Idol problem, or is it that our popular idols reflect our problems? Do environment and time make specific idols relevant? Or, maybe it is the environment which is responsible for the rise of a special kind of idols? My hunch says it is the Read More... Posted 19-07-2008 11:42 from Jordan, I will be back... | 0 Comments Filed under Misc.

• فطاير بطاطا و بازيلا- Potato and Peas Pies

  Read More... Posted 19-07-2008 07:21 from Mimi Cooks | 0 Comments Filed under video, Vegetarian, Dough, Cooking Video, Middle Eastern Food, Easy Recipe, اكل عربي, بازيلا, عجينه, كل نباتي, وصفة, لذيذ, طبخّ, فطاير بالبطاطا

• A Personal Note

  If I’m violating some kind of blog etiquette by injecting my personal life into this posting, I apologize. I haven’t written for some weeks, not because I was away, but because I had family here for our 50th Wedding Anniversary. For some it has been 20 Read More... Posted 19-07-2008 05:07 from Jordan Journals | 0 Comments

• Jones Cup Champions: JORDAN, again and again!

  Jordan National Basketball Team made it again this year and won the Jones Cup 2008, winning over the United States Basketball Team in the Final game, as Jordan also won the championship of this basketball tournament last year 2007! Winning over USA (the Read More... Posted 19-07-2008 03:48 from Rani the Brainy | 0 Comments Filed under Jordan, Sports

• Monk Metal

  Here’s an offbeat news bit for you: Heavy metal monk in second album At first glance, Cesare Bonizzi looks like the archetypal Capuchin monk - round-faced, stout, with twinkling eyes and a long flowing white beard. But beneath his robes beats a Read More... Posted 19-07-2008 03:05 from Tololy's Box | 0 Comments Filed under Bizarro