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global water issues are staggering. In excess of 1 billion people—about four times the population of the United States—lack access to clean, safe water, and 6,000 people die each day because of water-related illnesses. The situation is particularly...
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The Arab states are responsible for less than 5 percent of the world’s total carbon emissions, but according to the Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED),...
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“A fair, effective and ambitious deal” regarding climate change is what Queen Rania and Princess Haya of Jordan have asked to be targeted in Copenhagen’s...
made popular Dec 8 2009
I don’t care if it is rooted in culture or religion something has to be done about the barbaric practice of “honour killings”. There is absolutely no...
made popular Dec 7 2009
The Hashamite Monarch of Jordan is one the most collaborationist regimes in the history of the Arabs. Even the current Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas and...
made popular Dec 5 2009
The Swiss have voted for their referendum, and the vote has decided against the building of Islamic Minarets in Switzerland. Middle Eastern press called it a racist...
made popular Dec 4 2009
I believe that yesterday I was pretty successful in proving that Jordanians DO have some degree of humor (despite the grumpy faces they are best known for :) ). And...
made popular Nov 28 2009
I thought I’d write down my thoughts for Adha Eid, to brief you all on how Jordanian citizens are celebrating it, or not celebrating it. But before briefing you up,...
made popular Nov 27 2009
I have finally read some news that actually made me smile : )
Jordan’s dams are filled with more water than what they had at this time of the year last year due to...
made popular Nov 26 2009
According to Maysara Malas, secretary general of the National Committee for Prisoners in Israel, 27 Jordanian prisoners in Israeli prisons had started a hunger strike...
made popular Nov 24 2009
There have been recent calls to Jordanian authorities from The National Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) to study the reported cases of police violence.
“Violence...
made popular Nov 20 2009
New disclosures about war crimes committed by British army in Iraq are out. A British soldier named Donald Payne revealed some of the crimes committed by the British...
made popular Nov 19 2009
Palestinian Olives: Support the best in the business.
Jordan signed a peace agreement with Israel in 1994. And although its relations are a little more than a decade...
made popular Nov 17 2009
Rioting was going on and off for the last couple of days in Al-Tafayleh neighborhood in Eastern Amman. Riots were triggered by the death of a 20-year-old man who was...
made popular Nov 16 2009
Stability was rediscovered once again in AlTafayleh neighborhood in Eastern Amman after riots reportedly caused injuries among anti-riots police forces and cases of...
made popular Nov 12 2009
Rioting has been going on and off for the last couple of days in al Tafayleh neighborhood in eastern Amman. Riots were triggered after the death of a 20-year-old man...
made popular Nov 10 2009
Discovered cases of infection with H1N1 virus in Jordan are increasing drastically in number; approximating a number of around 100 cases a day. Strategies of dealing...
made popular Nov 2 2009
Clashes between Palestinians and Israeli forces were renewed on Sunday when Israeli troops forcefully entered the mosque and attacked worshippers by beating them,...
made popular Oct 28 2009
Discovered cases of infection with H1N1 virus in Jordan are increasing drastically in number; approximating a number of around 100 cases a day. Strategies of dealing...
made popular Oct 27 2009
A new tactic of thuggish Arab dictators and their even more thuggish secret police is to hire plain-clothed thugs to go out and beat up dissidents and then the regime...
made popular Oct 27 2009
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