Month: May 2008

  • Check out the new Ikbis.com homepage

    Yesterday night, the Ikbis.com team launched a new version of the home page. This new edition starts to reflect Ikbis’s evolved thinking and some of our new strategies, which will start to become more apparent in the coming months. Expect to see more cool contests from Ikbis, which will encourage people produce great videos and…

  • Will religion destroy the world.. or heal it? McCain’s crazy pastor vs. Karen Armstrong’s sanity

    We truly live in a dangerous time. Never before in my generation’s time has the world been so full of hateful propaganda, fear and mutual suspicion. What is scary is that extremists, absolutists and outright fanatics from all cultures and all quarters seem to have won the upper hand right now. Yet at the same…

  • Amman’s old downtown signs are gone! (but I managed to photograph a few)

    Yesterday, Saturday, I decided to finally start my ‘project’ of documenting the old shop and office signs of downtown Amman. I parked my car at the top end of a staircase leading down from Jabal Amman to Basman street. I started taking some pictures, then my camera’s battery died. I bought a pack of batteries…

  • When did Amman’s shop signs loose their beautiful lettering

    I have been promising myself for at leas the last 7 years to start photographic the old signs of downtown Amman. But I never got around to doing that. The beautiful old signs of Amman are disappearing fast. The shops that one day used to be proud establishments have closed. The doctors and the lawyers…

  • Shooting Amman’s crazy sky

    Moving car + Nokia N95 + Dirty windscreen + Amazing Sky + Amman’s streets = THIS. I share these picture of a breathtaking drive home this evening, as the came from my camera phone. Un-cropped, unedited. Read these related posts on 360east: Scooters in Amman.. Tata Botata’s crazy t-shirts! Is anyone in Amman having an…

  • Color on a wall: Amman’s biggest painting..

    Have you seen this? I’m calling it Amman’s biggest painting (prove me wrong if you know a bigger one). The wall of the Radisson SAS hotel has been undergoing a transformation for the past few weeks. The work is by owl-obsessed artist Rima Malallah, who also happens to run the Love on a Bike shop…

  • Will Egypt become the first official Arab iPhone country?

    Vodafone is bringing the iPhone to Egypt. I just read this in Apple Insider: AppleInsider | Vodafone inks deal with Apple to sell iPhone in ten countries: Vodafone, the world’s largest mobile phone company in dollar sales, announced Tuesday that it has reached an agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone in ten of its…