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Today is Blog Action Day and the global conversation this year is about poverty, so I thought it would be relevant to discuss poverty in Jordan. There are naturally a million angles to tackle. We could talk about the UN Human Development report and Jordan’s relatively impressive rankings. We could

“The time for action has never been more urgent - rising food prices have plunged 100 million more people into poverty, and the economic slowdown risks eroding political support for development,” HM Queen Rania Al-Abdullah. This morning, the taxi driver who gave me a ride to work tuned in to one

…and this could go on indefinitely. Until further notice, if you need to reach me you can always send an email or contact me using the blog contact form.

Technorati, the Internet’s blogging search engine and most accurate ranker of blogs, has published its “State of the Blogosphere” for 2008. Some of the findings are pretty interesting when it comes to global blogging: The majority of global bloggers are male… Around half of the world’s bloggers are from the US but

Even though there is an Arabic micro-blogging service called Watwet that is very similar to Twitter in functionality, a lot of Arab users have chosen to use Twitter instead, maybe because it has mostly become the international poster child for micro-blogging, or because most of their friends already use it

A few weeks ago, a reader sent me an interesting message. Working as a sales representative in a local publishing house she asked one of the company’s writers why they didn’t have/start a blog. The response has been playing in my head for some time: “because I’m not going to

I actually just realized that i did not post photos from my last trip to Damascus, May '08. Here you go >>

Utterli, نظام وتطبيق ويب من فئة انظمة التدوين المُصغر والعاجل Micro-blogging مثل Twitter, Pownce واخرين حيث تسمح لك بنشر مدونات صغيرة وسريعة كخواطر تشارك بها من يريد كلما توفرت لك. طبعاً, هذا النوع من المواقع اخذ في التكاثر ورغم ان Utterli ليس جديد بحد ذاته إلا انه دائم التجديد مما

Berberus is a new blog aggregator that was recently launched to cover blogs from the Maghreb region. The name is an obvious reference to the region and its roots. The site also says it references the existence of a form of berberism (free man) in every blogger who aspires to

Yup, its been 3 years since I started this place. 3 years. 3 lovely years. I really really hope. That in 30 years I'll be still here writing to you, my darling readers. Because I really do love this place. I'm so thankful that 3 years ago I stumbled on a blog, And found myself starting my