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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 10:10pm MDT by joladies
Nermeen Murad’s thoughtful tribute to Mahmoud Darwish in the Jordan Times yesterday reminded me of how I first heard of him. If I remember correctly, one of his earlier poems ... -
Posted: August 19th, 2008, 10:05pm MDT by joladies
Nermeen Murad’s thoughtful tribute to Mahmoud Darwish in the Jordan Times yesterday reminded me of how I first heard of him. If I remember correctly, one of his earlier ... -
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 12:15pm MDT by joladies
It was with a sigh of relief that I read in today's Jordan Times that a clean up campaign is to take place in Aqaba ... for long I have ... -
Posted: August 16th, 2008, 2:07am MDT by joladies
Sitting on the balcony of a friend's house at the end of Rainbow Street this evening set me to thinking how the lives of residents can be changed when an ... -
Posted: August 16th, 2008, 3:52pm MDT by joladies
Words are the refuge at times like these when life seems to mean so little to so many holding the strings of our existence over the abyss.Just when ... -
Posted: August 11th, 2008, 9:49pm MDT by joladies
I felt like a kid on a picnic as I unexpectedly accompanied hubby on a tour of Kerak and Tafila with a trip to Petra added for good measure. ... -
Posted: August 10th, 2008, 3:04pm MDT by joladies
I can’t keep up with all the new places and buildings in Amman, but I am learning to accept that changes are taking place daily in our city. One new ... -
Posted: August 10th, 2008, 2:45pm MDT by joladies
A few questions and answers that may be of interest -Q: Can you drive a white number plated car with a foreign driving licence?A: NOQ: If ... -
Posted: July 31st, 2008, 12:51pm MDT by joladies
Views from Ras an Naqub, Southern JordanIn today's Jordan Times an article talks about placing a 'green belt' along the 'desert' highway;hmmm! But ... -
Posted: July 29th, 2008, 12:04pm MDT by joladies
People grow wearyyear in and year outjustifying their existencesince 1948;living and breathingan air and space denied,pollutedwith racism and hatredso decried!And ... -
Posted: July 27th, 2008, 1:37pm MDT by joladies
11/7/2008Press ReleaseThe Palestine Youth Orchestra: Concert Tour July/ August 2008Palestine, Jordan and SyriaThe Edward Said National Conservatory of Music in Palestine is preparing for the ... -
Posted: July 26th, 2008, 12:35pm MDT by joladies
"As the saga in Gaza continues, the noose of occupation broadensdeceivingly deepening, tightening its grip on the land of Palestineinviolate ...yet grows smaller still;and no-one notices ... -
Posted: July 23rd, 2008, 3:02pm MDT by joladies
My mother-in-law, Um Muwaffaq, lies at home at the end of her life with her family around her and it took me back so many years to when I first ... -
Posted: July 21st, 2008, 9:51pm MDT by joladies
Desert police on patrol in Wadi Rum - photos by JThe other evening my husband and I were talking about Avi Shlaim’s book, Lion of Jordan, ... -
Posted: July 19th, 2008, 6:07pm MDT by joladies
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 ... -
Posted: July 16th, 2008, 10:40pm MDT by joladies
I have been thinking a lot lately about the stories of the sales of government land. It seems to me that we have to push forward with the times and ... -
Posted: July 14th, 2008, 6:24pm MDT by joladies
Having just written a blog about the waste of water at the new circle and underpass at the end of Mecca Street it was interesting to read the following letter ... -
Posted: July 12th, 2008, 10:42pm MDT by joladies
Went on a visit recently and met up with these wonderful creatures ....a moment ... -
Posted: July 11th, 2008, 3:11pm MDT by joladies
Gaza Fulbright scholars denied access to Israel meet US visa officials at Gaza borderJordan Times 11 July 2008EREZ CROSSING, Gaza Strip (AP) - US visa officials ... -
Posted: July 10th, 2008, 5:22pm MDT by joladies
It is marvellous that the Jordan Festival has started in such a successful way. But I am a bit apprehensive after reading in the Jordan Times that the audience in ... -
Posted: July 8th, 2008, 8:53pm MDT by joladies
Driving along from Carrefour to the 8th circle I noticed a huge new water feature - 3 large and long waterfalls. Having done a nice job with the trees and ... -
Posted: July 7th, 2008, 12:38am MDT by joladies
Two little Iraqi girls with one thing in common - they have both been injured by American munitions. One has a leg that may have to be amputated and the ... -
Posted: July 5th, 2008, 4:41pm MDT by joladies
When you make a statement to the police your personal details go at the top. If you are a victim or a witness, the offender's lawyer can take a copy ... -
Posted: July 2nd, 2008, 12:04pm MDT by joladies
'Drum beats of war' like we are hearing now from the great leaders of the free world, have a habit of bringing out the most creative of writing .... whether ... -
Posted: June 30th, 2008, 2:12am MDT by joladies
In Jordan, as everywhere, people have been struggling with the surge in basic food prices over the past year. In fact it has taken this global food crisis to shift ... -
Posted: June 30th, 2008, 8:30pm MDT by joladies
We had breakfast late this morning ….. 9.30am ….. but it was a treat, as son and daughter joined us for the usual banter and hilarity that sends the Palestine ... -
Posted: June 25th, 2008, 7:14pm MDT by joladies
I always fear for workmen perched at great heights and doing the most dangerous things. Are there any safety regulations around? This poor guy has been working for ... -
Posted: June 25th, 2008, 4:03pm MDT by joladies
I was looking through my Zain mobile bill and noticed that we have to pay the General Sales Tax of 16% and a Special Sales Tax of 4%. Would someone ... -
Posted: June 23rd, 2008, 10:12pm MDT by joladies
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 ... -
Posted: June 22nd, 2008, 6:39pm MDT by joladies
The town of Ajloun with the Qal'at ar Rabad on the hilltopWent up into the hills of Anjara yesterday; a spectacular place that overlooked al Qal'at ar ... -
Posted: June 21st, 2008, 4:41pm MDT by joladies
I was talking to a farmer from the north of the Jordan Valley at the Souq al Ard (Farmer's Market) this morning. He was selling organic lemons. I don't know ... -
Posted: June 17th, 2008, 7:18pm MDT by joladies
I have difficulty understanding the logic of certain regulations in Jordan. I think many of them exist in order to confuse lines of responsibility because the judicial system is underdeveloped ... -
Posted: June 17th, 2008, 5:05pm MDT by joladies
Strange set of cirumstances presented themselves this morning ... while reading the news on the internet. Found a link to the issue of the Canadian genocide of indigenous tribal people ... -
Posted: June 16th, 2008, 6:29pm MDT by joladies
Our Jordan Times seems to print stories without any in-depth research or questions. The story about the finding of the first church in Rihab near Mafraq was taken up all ... -
Posted: June 15th, 2008, 4:26pm MDT by joladies
So the Natural Resources Authority finally got their way! Copper mining is a’comin, having been blocked successfully for the previous decade by the RSCN, concerned about the environmental threats ... -
Posted: June 13th, 2008, 1:31am MDT by joladies
“A fee paid to an agent or employee for transacting a piece of business or performing a service” is a definition of 'commission' in my dictionary. My father made his ... -
Posted: June 13th, 2008, 11:12pm MDT by joladies
Time for something else other than politics ... and what better than the TED blog for a bit of inspiration ... and hope. Check out anthropologist Wade Davis on the ... -
Posted: June 13th, 2008, 3:31pm MDT by joladies
Is this Bush’s last stand for his neocon foreign policy, as he dances with wolves in Italy, in Europe, the ‘old’? Complaining at the 'misinformation and propaganda’ about the United ... -
Posted: June 13th, 2008, 2:34pm MDT by joladies
A sense of pride overwhelmed me when I saw the picture in the Al Ghad newspaper on the breakfast table of Mustafa Salameh standing on top of Mount Everest holding ... -
Posted: June 12th, 2008, 4:08pm MDT by joladies
Along the Desert HighwayOriginally uploaded by jojournals Back in 2006 I took this photo proudly announcing the entrance to a village along the ... -
Posted: June 11th, 2008, 8:18pm MDT by joladies
I wonder how the traffic police deal with the herds of sheep wandering down the middle of the roads? Do they come under any law? Can tickets be ... -
Posted: June 11th, 2008, 12:22pm MDT by joladies
I was reminded of fellow blogger T's post about the tons of plastic that litter the countryside, when I returned from a trip to Aqaba recently. Just on ... -
Posted: June 10th, 2008, 5:12pm MDT by joladies
Graduation day for those whose physical bodies do not match their mental abilities! It is very uplifting to see these children without limbs or their bodies so distorted they cannot ... -
Posted: June 10th, 2008, 9:05am MDT by joladies
I have a dream, that The Fulbright Seven will come to symbolise all that is wrong with American/Israeli policy in the Middle East ….and that those with principles (okay, ... -
Posted: June 8th, 2008, 7:39pm MDT by joladies
As all these buildings rise high into the air I wonder what good will they be for Jordan? How is the water going to get to these edifices and how ... -
Posted: June 7th, 2008, 6:45pm MDT by joladies
SEVEN tons of plastic bags used by Carrefour each week! What an amazing figure, the mind just boggles at the thought of these mountains of plastic going through the chain ... -
Posted: June 7th, 2008, 2:10pm MDT by joladies
‘Breakfast is ready’, I shouted out to Hubby pottering about the house in preparation for a trip down south. Breakfast, that wonderful start to the day that nurtures the soul ... -
Posted: June 5th, 2008, 2:08pm MDT by joladies
Ok, so the news is horrible as usual. With Mr Obama being defensive about his 'Israel' policy claiming that the security of Israel is sacrosant and non negotiable and that ... -
Posted: June 4th, 2008, 1:05pm MDT by joladies
With all the talk about a world food crisis, and the sudden scrambling of world leaders to find a way out of the bureaucratic maze they have been living ... -
Posted: June 2nd, 2008, 12:42am MDT by joladies
It is great to see that the seven Fulbright scholars from Gaza have had their scholarships reinstated. The power of the media and internet has certainly made Israel look bad ... -
Posted: June 2nd, 2008, 1:37pm MDT by joladies
Yesterday’s Jordan Times reports another instance of a father signing a pledge to guarantee the safety of his daughter, and she, a young mother of a toddler, is stabbed to ... -
Posted: June 1st, 2008, 10:40pm MDT by joladies
The latest space shuttle to blast off on Saturday was carrying toilet parts to the international space station. That’s something to ponder considering there are millions of people living on ... -
Posted: May 31st, 2008, 8:34pm MDT by joladies
On this last day of May I have a comment about Al Nakbeh before it fades for another year. Israel has celebrated its 60th birthday, and Palestine has mourned the ... -
Posted: May 30th, 2008, 6:06pm MDT by joladies
Seven aspiring students in Gaza have been told by the US State Department that they cannot take up their Fulbright scholarships to study in the USA as Israel will not ... -
Posted: May 28th, 2008, 6:41pm MDT by joladies
Orphanages, schools, charitible societies, homes, chicken farms, cement factories, the list just goes on and on and all these and more have been subject to the Israeli Defence (?) Forces ... -
Posted: May 28th, 2008, 6:16pm MDT by joladies
From demolishing legitimate businesses such as this one to the ultimate act of evil of demanding the demolition of an orphanage in Hebron, Israel has excelled itself in ... -
Posted: May 26th, 2008, 11:58pm MDT by joladies
How do we improve the driving habits here in Jordan???? There is an endless list but to start I think it is important that the roads are well marked as ... -
Posted: May 24th, 2008, 3:54pm MDT by joladies
Words cannot express adequately the diabolical state of mind of Bush and his cohorts in that axis of evil known as the Quartet. Ah, I hear you say, but an ... -
Posted: May 24th, 2008, 12:15pm MDT by joladies
It's good to know that we now have a law to counter the plague of society - any society - that has to cope with 'family' violence, or domestic ... -
Posted: May 21st, 2008, 3:06pm MDT by joladies
A dear friend of ours was diagnosed with cancer 8 months ago. She has been through a 7 hour operation, chemotherapy, radiation, feeling ill and all the terrible reactions you ... -
Posted: May 19th, 2008, 3:56pm MDT by joladies
A friend has cancer and has to go up to the King Hussein Cancer Centre for her treatments. There are always so many sad stories but this one really touched ... -
Posted: May 15th, 2008, 12:23pm MDT by joladies
Today we wear black; as we solemnly mark the 60 years of the nakbeh (the catastrophe) in Palestine; and lest we forget the basis on which the State of ... -
Posted: May 12th, 2008, 3:03pm MDT by joladies
Beirut .... that unfathomable yet beautiful city, home to my son for the time being, is driving me crazy. Just when things were going so well for ... -
Posted: May 11th, 2008, 5:27pm MDT by joladies
In today's Jordan Times a 'man has been charged with premeditated murder of his younger sister' and also 'the victim's father, mother and sibling of complicity in premeditated murder in ... -
Posted: May 9th, 2008, 11:46am MDT by joladies
Having just spent two weeks assidiously sorting out rubbish for recycling, I find it so difficult just throwing everything in the trash can here. Paper, cardboard and certain ... -
Posted: May 4th, 2008, 3:03pm MDT by joladies
She took my hand on the day I arrived and stayed close to me.She introduced me to her family who were now my family.She taught me her language ... -
Posted: May 1st, 2008, 3:08pm MDT by joladies
The other day in a five star hotel I heard a tourist ask for a map of Amman. The man at the front desk politely apologized that ... -
Posted: April 20th, 2008, 5:05pm MDT by joladies
Ode to Azraq Wetlands by JIt was a hot murky morning the day we arrived in Azraqand it was only April ... -
Posted: April 20th, 2008, 12:57pm MDT by joladies
The following article appeared in today's Jordan Times. Well said ... and enough said. Time for action to put right a terrible wrong. JRight to life is ... -
Posted: April 18th, 2008, 8:49pm MDT by joladies
I came across infotainment in today’s newspaper. The word is new to me and not in any dictionary that I own. Google didn’t recognize it either, but surprisingly, when I ... -
Posted: April 13th, 2008, 12:25pm MDT by joladies
I had to go to the Ministry of Interior yesterday to get an official letter officially guaranteeing a form officially stamped by and signed by a head of department at ... -
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 7:18pm MDT by joladies
Yesterday I saw the film, Knowledge is the Beginning/West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. What a marvelous portrayal of the sequence of events that made real the dream of two men, the late ... -
Posted: April 9th, 2008, 4:33pm MDT by joladies
According to the Jordan Times today one can just go out and commit murder and get set free if you are 'in a fit of fury'. I think I will ... -
Posted: April 8th, 2008, 9:36pm MDT by joladies
'Oh gawd' …. I sighed, as I read the daily news and my heart sank."What" cries hubby from the bedroom, "the world's in a mess again?"And all I ... -
Posted: April 6th, 2008, 7:17pm MDT by joladies
The furor about the Dutch film ‘Fitna” by Geert Wilders seems to have been short lived and, more importantly, non-violent. The lack of sensitivity which provokes anger and the right ... -
Posted: April 6th, 2008, 4:15pm MDT by joladies
How do we count the cost of war? Both human and financial burdens face a country at war. 'The Three Trillion Dollar War' by Joseph Stiglitz & Linda Bilmes is ... -
Posted: April 2nd, 2008, 2:09am MDT by joladies
WELL! This evening I collected a British guest from the same hotel I mentioned in the previous blog (s