Month: November 2007

  • Please tell me who to vote for in the 5th district

    OK.. I have not blogged about the elections. I have left that to other, much more capable bloggers. Election day is 15 minutes away and I still have not decided who I should elect tomorrow. I spent some time looking at election ads and posters. I even followed some of the election coverage in the…

  • BOBS interview: Die Zeit

    I’ve been interviewed by Germany’s super quality queen of newspapers, Die Zeit, about blogs, cross cultural dialogue and freedom of expression. Some of what I said made into their article about the BOBS [Achtung Baby, link is in German] Read these related posts on 360east: Best of the Blogs.. the jury deliberations are over Best…

  • Best of the Blogs 2007: The power of Black and White in “White Russia”..

    The ceremony is over and the winners of The BOBS have been announced. Xenia Awimova, a 23-year-old aspiring photojournalist who lives and works in the Belarusian capital of Minsk runs “Foto-Griffoneurei” (literally translated as “Photo-Maniac”). Her collections of photos chronicle her live and that of her home city. “In Belarus there are not many independent…

  • Best of the Blogs.. the jury deliberations are over

    After 8 hours of being looked up in a conference room at the Deutsche Welle’s Berlin headquarters, The BOBS deliberation art finally over. And the winners are.. Oh.. Wait.. I can’t tell you yet. There is an “embargo” on the results until tomorrow’s awards ceremony at the Museum of Communication in Berlin. The discussions of…

  • Apple’s Europe/Middle East pricing policy STINKS

    I was tempted to buy an iPhone from Germany (as it was launched here a couple of days ago). But I won’t do it. The damn thing costs 399 Euros here which translates in 582 US$. That’s 40% more than the 399 US$ it costs in the US. I have never understood Apple’s pricing policy…

  • In Berlin, finding the best blog of the world 😉 (ahem, ahem)

    After a grueling 15 hour trip from Amman to Berlin, I am finally here in the good old German capital. Why? Because I am a jury member of the BOBS, Best of the Blogs award, the global blogging competition organized by Deutsche Welle, I still can’t believe that I am traveling again, as I just…

  • My incredible Doha hotel room hunting adventures!

    I arrived in Doha earlier this evening with no hotel reservation. My over-optimism and a stupid misunderstanding on my part led to that. For the past 48 hours my staff, our travel agencies and our business partners in Qatar have been trying, in vain, to find me a reasonably priced hotel room. I decided to…

  • Amman Art attack: Meeting Points 5

    Makan is back with another Meeting Points contemporary arts festival. Cool poster too. I simply dumped the the schedule below (sorry for the lousy formatting) for your benefit. The schedule can be downloaded here. schedule sunday 4 – 11 – 2007 7:00 pm Amal Kenawy. Cairo… Eating Me Inside. Al Balad Theatre 8:30 pm Kamilya…

  • The Matrix is run by Jordanian tax men!

    Check it out on ikbis Read these related posts on 360east: iToot vs. iBaloo6 tag Check out the Jordanian Family on The Simpsons The Jordanian blogosphere: growth and change Amazing project: Greening the Jordanian Desert Amman has a new mayor: Omar Maani

  • Tech.Connect: A new start for tech entrepreneurship in Jordan?

    When you’ve lived long enough in Jordan, you realize that the country is a “museum” not just of archeological sites, but also all kinds of “amazing initiatives”. When an initiative ends up in the museum it means it is dead. Jordan comes up with a cool initiative, then somehow it manages to get stifled/mismanaged/turned into…