Ahmad Humeid
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 12:36am MDT by Humeid
Found this video experiment on ikbis.com. Quite an intriguing interpretation of Amman by night. You might want to leave a comment for the maker of this video, Rafique Nasereddin, on ... -
Posted: August 19th, 2008, 3:25pm MDT by Humeid
What an amazing ride for ikbis.com over the past 8 weeks! The site’s traffic has shot up. We’re talking about a many-fold growth which necessitated the addition of new servers ... -
Posted: August 17th, 2008, 2:27am MDT by Humeid
7iber.com, the Jordanian citizen journalism web site has posted an article with pictures and an audio interview about a broken side walk in Jabal Amman. This damage was caused by ... -
Posted: August 13th, 2008, 11:07pm MDT by Humeid
Photosynth is the best thing to have the Microsoft name on it in history!... -
Posted: August 13th, 2008, 12:57pm MDT by Humeid
Has anyone else noted this? For a whole week now Alexa’s data has not been updated. It’s stuck on August 6, 2008. I;ve searched the blogosphere for posts about this ... -
Posted: August 11th, 2008, 2:52pm MDT by Humeid
I am not someone who likes poetry a lot. But the power of meaning when he says “Grass on a stone” is just earth shattering. See my previous post for ... -
Posted: August 10th, 2008, 1:55am MDT by Humeid
Picture from 7iber.com Larger billboards on the sides of Amman’s buildings are occasionally becoming displays for dramatic typographic interventions. Here, type becomes the defining feature of facade. Letterforms are on ... -
Posted: August 9th, 2008, 2:18am MDT by Humeid
“On This Earth” We have on this earth what makes life worth living: April’s hesitation, the aroma of bread at dawn, a woman’s point of view about men, the works ... -
Posted: August 3rd, 2008, 11:40am MDT by Humeid
If you followed the news about Jordan’s high school exams (Tawjihi), you would have noticed that: a. Girls have done much better than boys. The top marks are totally dominated ... -
Posted: August 2nd, 2008, 1:31am MDT by Humeid
Amman is definitely a city that has started a journey of self (re)discovery. A city that has exploded in all directions over the past decades, is finally finding time to ... -
Posted: July 31st, 2008, 1:06am MDT by Humeid
On Wednesday night I attended Ruba Saqr, Zulaikha Aburisha and Zeina Azouqa’s “3 Women Only” performance at Al Hussein Park. Within the first ten minutes of the show, I was ... -
Posted: July 27th, 2008, 11:52pm MDT by Humeid
If the poor Ottomans only knew! They could have controlled the Arab lands till this day with just a bunch of dubbed soap operas. But, as history would have it, ... -
Posted: July 27th, 2008, 4:33pm MDT by Humeid
What happens when corporate committees start “art directing”..... -
Posted: July 26th, 2008, 1:13am MDT by Humeid
Tucked away in one of the harder to notice alleys of Zara Center in Amman, I found the poster above and the shop it advertised: Unnecessary Necessity (say that 10 ... -
Posted: July 26th, 2008, 11:22pm MDT by Humeid
i am at roba and musa’s wedding. While everyone is dancing to arabo-pop beats i am siting at the far end of the party live blogging. Just to prove a ... -
Posted: July 25th, 2008, 12:05am MDT by Humeid
This would make a great anti-smoking campaign. “Sing and dance instead of sucking on that cigarette”. The Tobacco Factory (or ‘Masna’ al-Dukhan’, Arabic: the Factory of Smoke), one of Amman’s ... -
Posted: July 25th, 2008, 11:27pm MDT by Humeid
Deconstructivist architecture meets modern Arabic typography in this facade of a new restaurant that will open on Amman’s Mecca street! This building has caught my attention for the first time ... -
Posted: July 25th, 2008, 11:13pm MDT by Humeid
The contrast cannot be greater. Two villas on the western edge of Amman. Two totally different styles of architecture. I say “styles” because both are rather large houses and share ... -
Posted: July 25th, 2008, 10:50pm MDT by Humeid
The blog posts have been piling up in my brain. The potentially bloggable photos have been crowding my camera phone. It’s been 10 days since my last blog post and ... -
Posted: July 16th, 2008, 2:12pm MDT by Humeid
Now this is an interesting ad. Beituna, an investment company is announcing that the biggest, already constructed mall and commercial center is it’s own Beituna City on Yarmouk Street, beyond ... -
Posted: July 12th, 2008, 12:25pm MDT by Humeid
The people of this Japanese town have to compost all their food waste and sort their trash into 34 different bins (see below) at their community’s “zero waste” center. No ... -
Posted: July 11th, 2008, 10:14pm MDT by Humeid
This is so disappointing. Although Jordan is one of only 3 Arab countries who will, later this year, get the iPhone officially, Jordan did not make onto the long list ... -
Posted: July 5th, 2008, 4:49pm MDT by Humeid
Almost 40 years ago, a 14 year old Beatles fan snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room with a tape recorder. He convinced the star to do an interview about peace. ... -
Posted: July 4th, 2008, 12:41am MDT by Humeid
Flash video performance on my PowerBook G4 was really bad over the past few months. Maybe because my hard disk is always almost full.. Or maybe because I really need ... -
Posted: July 3rd, 2008, 12:50am MDT by Humeid
How lucky are we in Amman to get the newest Pixar movie just a few days after its release in America? I went to see Wall.e today with two of ... -
Posted: July 3rd, 2008, 11:59pm MDT by Humeid
The cool guys at SpinBits in Dubai have hosted TootCorp’s Karim Arafat on the their Spin Show podcast, to talk about the Arabian web and mobile scene and the story ... -
Posted: July 2nd, 2008, 1:26am MDT by Humeid
Over the past few days, the boycott of the Jordan Festival, lead by some of Jordan professional associations, has, reportedly, caused a number of Arab singers to cancel their participation. ... -
Posted: June 30th, 2008, 2:16am MDT by Humeid
Wi-tribe, Amman’s new Wimax ISP, who were the subject of a previous post on 360east, called me today. They read the post, found my number and called. I am happy ... -
Posted: June 30th, 2008, 1:51am MDT by Humeid
You might remember my post from a couple of week back, about how horrible my Zain Jordan phone line has become. The problem with dropped calls, repeatedly getting network errors ... -
Posted: June 30th, 2008, 12:37am MDT by Humeid
Sha3teely finally provides THE music video for Yazan Rousan’s “Gally: Errukhas”. The song itself is pretty hilarious. Now it has a fitting video to go with it, shot in one ... -
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 12:20am MDT by Humeid
I just read this in the New York Times: Obama Will Make Visits to Middle East and Europe – NYTimes.com: Mr. Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, will visit Jordan, Israel, ... -
Posted: June 27th, 2008, 1:48am MDT by Humeid
Yes it’s true. Bill Gates is leaving Microsoft to devote his time to charitable work in his foundation. I am not a Microsoft fan, but I just have to say ... -
Posted: June 26th, 2008, 11:54pm MDT by Humeid
Come on.. admit it. You want to get in touch with your inner blogger Well, this Saturday, the 28th of June 2008, you can. Thanks to Sha3shaboneh: a joint project ... -
Posted: June 24th, 2008, 12:42am MDT by Humeid
Just as I was forgetting about the (still unresolved) Steorn fiasco, two things had to remind me of the story today. Long time readers of this blog may remember my ... -
Posted: June 23rd, 2008, 1:34pm MDT by Humeid
My normal TV consumption for the past 5 years has been something like half an hour PER MONTH. For the past few weeks I’ve been watching ALL the European football ... -
Posted: June 23rd, 2008, 11:08am MDT by Humeid
A new Wimax-only operator has gone live in Amman. Wi-tribe revealed their service today after a rather large press and outdoor teaser ad campaign, under the headline “we networked the ... -
Posted: June 17th, 2008, 12:38pm MDT by Humeid
I have to dial numbers three times to get a connection. Ring tone suddenly drops off Every other call drops off What is happening? This started a few days ago. ... -
Posted: June 17th, 2008, 12:34pm MDT by Humeid
More stuff like this on Ikbis.com’s Ground Zero.... -
Posted: June 11th, 2008, 10:42am MDT by Humeid
I am usually the first to complain about my ISP’s internet speed. But today I have good news. I noticed my browsing was zippier over the past two days. So ... -
Posted: June 9th, 2008, 12:02am MDT by Humeid
First of all, let me share with you how I followed the keynote speech at Apple WWDC 2008: 1. I watched part of this live web video show, hosted by ... -
Posted: June 9th, 2008, 12:33pm MDT by Humeid
3G iPhone? Touchscreen Mac or PDA? A special Mac for developers? A new .mac service? Errr, The end of global warming? The rumors are raging like CRAZY. We’re now less ... -
Posted: June 7th, 2008, 1:29am MDT by Humeid
I have an ADSL line from Orange. A bit past midnight the web started acting crazy. Most pages don’t load. Some do very slowly. Is anyone facing the same problem?... -
Posted: June 4th, 2008, 12:41pm MDT by Humeid
This is a part of a jam-packed, lively breakout session of the Global Media Forum yesterday, entitled “Terrorists Online”. It was moderated by Yassin Musharbash, Editor, SPIEGEL-ONLINE. The panel consisted ... -
Posted: June 4th, 2008, 12:14pm MDT by Humeid
This is a part of a jam-packed, lively breakout session of the Global Media Forum yesterday, entitled “Terrorists Online”. It was moderated by Yassin Musharbash, Editor, SPIEGEL-ONLINE. The panel consisted ... -
Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 12:34pm MDT by Humeid
The employee choir of Deutsche Welle sings a South American song at the Global Media Forum dinner yesterday.... -
Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 12:17pm MDT by Humeid
For those of you interested in the media aspect of the Arab-Israeli conflict, it might be worth it to check out the session “Reading between the lies – Perception and ... -
Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 10:34am MDT by Humeid
The Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum, kicked off yesterday in Bonn, Germany. After a couple of welcoming speeches by the director of Deutsche Welle and a local minister, Shirin Ebadi ... -
Posted: June 2nd, 2008, 5:03pm MDT by Humeid
Aref Hijjawi (bald guy in the middle), who is a familiar name to those of us who listened to the BBC Arabic service in the last decade. He is now ... -
Posted: June 2nd, 2008, 12:16pm MDT by Humeid
Arrived in Frankfurt yesterday noon. Then in Bonn yesterday night. I will be blogging and sharing pictures and videos from the conference whenever I can. The Forum has just started ... -
Posted: May 31st, 2008, 1:19am MDT by Humeid
Thank goodness for conference trailers.. Very convenient. Media in Peace Building and Conflict Prevention. That’s the theme of the first edition of this conference. Not an easy topic at a ... -
Posted: May 28th, 2008, 12:40am MDT by Humeid
Judging by what I overhear sales people at electronics store tell potential customers, I concluded that many people out there are totally clueless about the whole High Definition TV (HDTV), ... -
Posted: May 27th, 2008, 1:24am MDT by Humeid
Today I spent an hour at Smart Buy hunting for a flat screen TV for our office’s meeting room. I was looking at screens 40-50 inch in size. My hunt ... -
Posted: May 27th, 2008, 2:09pm MDT by Humeid
Can’t wait to watch this crazy movie. I have a bit of a reputation of being a Machead myself. Between working and non-working Macs we have seven of them at ... -
Posted: May 27th, 2008, 10:23am MDT by Humeid
This ad above popped up in Facebook this morning. A farm for sale. The ad is in Arabic. What this means is that Facebook is starting to make money from ... -
Posted: May 26th, 2008, 1:04pm MDT by Humeid
Mike, Mohammad and the Mosquito are at it again!... -
Posted: May 21st, 2008, 2:07am MDT by Humeid
At the First Bra Store, you can look at bras, read about bras and even buy bras. But its not an ordinary lingerie store we’re talking about here. It the ... -
Posted: May 20th, 2008, 1:36am MDT by Humeid
Coming REAL SOON now! Only on ikbis.com.... -
Posted: May 17th, 2008, 12:29am MDT by Humeid
10 visual illusions in 2 minutes!... -
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 9:16pm MDT by Humeid
Apple Insider has just reported that Orange will be offering the 3G iPhone in Europe, Africa and the Middle East (including Jordan, which was named in an iPhone deal for ... -
Posted: May 14th, 2008, 3:23pm MDT by Humeid
OK people. We are looking for both senior and junior project coordinators. At the Big Name ad agency you’re working at, they probably call you ‘client servicing’ or ‘account executive’. ... -
Posted: May 14th, 2008, 2:12pm MDT by Humeid
HM Queen Rania is surely following up on what’s happening in the Jordanian web scene! In her recent interview in Jordan Business magazine, she talked, among other issues, about the ... -
Posted: May 12th, 2008, 1:38am MDT by Humeid
It took almost two years of work by international and Jordanian experts. It is a document of almost 400 pages. And it was delivered by Mayor Omar Maani to HM ... -
Posted: May 12th, 2008, 9:03am MDT by Humeid
Yesterday night, the Ikbis.com team launched a new version of the home page. This new edition starts to reflect Ikbis’s evolved thinking and some of our new strategies, which will ... -
Posted: May 11th, 2008, 11:27pm MDT by Humeid
We truly live in a dangerous time. Never before in my generation’s time has the world been so full of hateful propaganda, fear and mutual suspicion. What is scary is ... -
Posted: May 10th, 2008, 12:38am MDT by Humeid
Yesterday, Saturday, I decided to finally start my ‘project’ of documenting the old shop and office signs of downtown Amman. I parked my car at the top end of a ... -
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 10:43pm MDT by Humeid
I have been promising myself for at leas the last 7 years to start photographic the old signs of downtown Amman. But I never got around to doing that. The ... -
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 10:15pm MDT by Humeid
Moving car + Nokia N95 + Dirty windscreen + Amazing Sky + Amman’s streets = THIS. I share these picture of a breathtaking drive home this evening, as the came ... -
Posted: May 7th, 2008, 12:20am MDT by Humeid
Have you seen this? I’m calling it Amman’s biggest painting (prove me wrong if you know a bigger one). The wall of the Radisson SAS hotel has been undergoing a ... -
Posted: May 6th, 2008, 1:10am MDT by Humeid
Vodafone is bringing the iPhone to Egypt. I just read this in Apple Insider: AppleInsider | Vodafone inks deal with Apple to sell iPhone in ten countries: Vodafone, the world’s ... -
Posted: April 30th, 2008, 10:35am MDT by Humeid
Wherever you look in Amman you see half done stuff. Everything is incomplete. City Mall is an investment of tens of millions of Dinars. Some pretty amazing shops inside. It ... -
Posted: April 29th, 2008, 11:29pm MDT by Humeid
[click to enlarge] This caught my eye! Graffiti on a wall near the exit from Wadi Saqra Street to the 3rd Circle. Amman’s graffiti has, so far, consisted of text ... -
Posted: April 28th, 2008, 12:24am MDT by Humeid
The new lights of Rainbow Street are on! I just came back from a quick 30 minute visit to the street. I wanted to check out the street’s new developments ... -
Posted: April 26th, 2008, 1:20am MDT by Humeid
After a quick visi