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A Jordanian court has ruled that Internet sites should adhere to the print & publications(Media) laws that governs the work of print media. As a consequence all the penalties that are extended by this law will be applicable to anyone that is posting anything on the internet.
The reasoning for this stems [...]

Still haven’t fully processed the idea, but to some extent I think the idea of limiting the population is not because the whole earth won’t be able to provide for its population. It is the problem that in current circumstances the chance of over consumption and providing for the population through national resources is a [...]

Just happened to be reading al-rai(yeah its a rare occurrence since i always somehow end up cursing that bloody so called doc of econ) and stumble upon this, an article that says that the travel agent association has decided that they will not be showing the prices for their packages because it promotes fair [...]

Are things quiet now ? well they shouldn’t be.
About a week ago or so there was a campaign by kinzi to send letters, messages, and write posts denouncing “honor” killings.
As usual, I didn’t participate (atleast not visibly) but i like to observer and think about what was said, suggested, and how things transpired afterward. One [...]

This the obligatory – not really- post about everything that caught my eye since the last post or in this case i preferred to not discuss until things were a bit more quit.
So since the end of last year, the main topic on everyone’s mouth is Gaza. while i didn’t have the energy or the [...]

It certainly weird to express your wishes of a happy new year with a question mark, but that’s what this year promises to be and the world didn’t lose a single precious second to let us know. Being away from everything for the past few days, like always, I made it a point to be [...]

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Too many kondara (shoe) posts, but seriously for such a slow president he certainly showed some impressive agility ! Maybe he would have survived Nam if he didn’t skip. Anyways that’s not what was going on in my head for this post but i’ll probably be making other slight detours along the way, lately [...]

Well during the eid, since I had to stay in town for the holidays because the schedules didn’t quite align I decided to take it easy. So on one of those nice days we decided to head down to Ma’in, the hot springs that are touted as the best kept secret of jordan. Now I [...]

Just some random articles and posts that i came across lately that made me think a bit.
First Islamic Inscription May solve the Qur’an question
They found an early Arabic script with diacriticals, the significance of this discovery is that it was well thought off that diacriticals were developed after the Quran was transcribed but given this [...]

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Housing Tax’s in Jordan are a bit stupid. so when you for instance sell a house you have to pay a tax on it right ? so there comes a process where someone from the DLS (department of land and survey) to inspect the apartment/house and estimate the price that it should [...]