To Heaven with Diana!: A Study of Jordan of Saxony and Diana D'Andalo with a Translation of the Letters of Jordan
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Amman - The Jordanian government on Thursday rejected Israel's latest offer to temporarily freeze settlement activity in the West Bank excluding East Jerusalem, which Israel seized from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East war. The unilateral Israeli plan...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Amman - Turkish President Abdullah Gul and his wife will pay three-day state visit to Jordan from December 1 at the invitation of King Abdullah II and Queen Rania, the royal court announced Thursday. The Jordanian and Turkish leaders will have talks ...
Al Ahram Weekly (Free subscription) | yesterday
In Amman, Oula Farawati looks at King Abdullah's decision to dissolve parliament
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Jim Hopkins: Dodgy science gets us all off the hook - Environment - NZ Herald News As Madoff was to money, these cons are to climate . They've given sackcloth and ashes such a bad name no one will want to wear it. Because we now know all this hand- wringing, finger-pointing, cringing, wimpish, guilt-inducing "We're to blame and it's killing the planet" palaver, embraced as a new religion...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Amman - Arab stock markets rebounded this week, buoyed bya strong performance on Wall Street and encouraging reports about the US economy, financial analysts said Friday. However, they noticed that the modest gains reflected hesitation by investors t...
Airline News & Opinions (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Emirates based in United Arab Emirates is offering additional flight to Amman. The additional flight to Amman with Emirates will be effective as from 1st December 2009. The additional flight to Amman will be operated by the Airbus A330 of Emirates. Emirates also proposes an additional flight to Doha. Source: Emirates Source: BangaloreAviation For more information on Air [...]
My Right Word (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
( DPA ) reports from Amman: The Jordanian government Thursday rejected Israel’s latest [^] offer to temporarily freeze settlement activity in the West Bank excluding East Jerusalem, which Israel seized from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East war. TransJordan, this is CisJordan speaking. If you want to play poker, you've got to put something in the pot. How about some territories? That way, with a...
baithak (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Prof. Lazrag’s assertion cannot be refuted. In Islam the hijab is not a pillar of faith. “Nowhere in the Quran is there an indication that the veil is a condition of a woman’s acceptance of her faith.” She constantly draws on her interview with Muslim women to make her point and to demonstrate the havoc religious bigotry and ignorance have caused in the lives of Muslim women....
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Since 9/11, it's become part of the received wisdom that we in the West have got to pay more attention to the attitudes of Muslims in the Middle East and central Asia. Terrorist attacks may end with bombs and guns. But they begin with propaganda and conspiracy theories. Yet when the opportunity comes to actually have Muslim voices piped into our homes, our media and political elites get cold feet....
Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Do you notice that the Israeli-centric standards of the New York Times even influence its non-political sections? Look at this case for Jordan: "But treat Amman as a mere way station between destinations and you miss discovering what is perhaps the most pleasant city in the Middle East. Calling a place “pleasant” may seem like faint praise, but in Amman pleasant covers areas like religious...
Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
" He is followed by Iran's Supreme Leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, King Abdullah II of Jordan and Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan." How accurate or credible is this list which puts the King of Jordan in the "most influential" category. Just ask yourselves: do you know of any Muslim anywhere in the world who considers the King of Jordan influential in her/his life? Enough...
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Traditionally courted by Jordan's Islamists, the poor Jabal al-Nathif neighbourhood of Amman has discovered that there are alternative bodies willing to provide much-needed social services
On the Wilder Side (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
On November 23, 2009 , Dhoruba Bin Wahad, a former U.S. political prisoner and leader of the Black Panther Party, and Naji Mujahid, a student-activist from Washington D.C. were on a tourist bus enroute from Amman, Jordan to the West Bank of occupied Palestine. Both had been invited to attend a conference on political detention [...]
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Please help us spread the word. Dhoruba bin-Wahad and Naji Fenwick have been prevented from entering Palestine (11-23-09). They were going to attend a political Prisoner conference. They are asking for our support by contacting the US Embassy and anyone else we can think of that can help. Below is a sample letter for sending an email to the US Embassy in Amman, Jordan
Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Cartoonist: Emad Hajjaj Source: Al-Ghad, Jordan, November 24, 2009 ... November 25, 2009, 1:52 pm
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