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Month: March 2005

  • Marcel Khalifeh: An artist, his politics and his (annoying) audience

    The man is truly a pioneer. He and his troupe of musicians, including his two sons, are talented artists and accomplished musicians. No doubt about it: Marcel Khalifeh must be one of the greatest Arab musicians today. I am not into Arabic music at all actually. But I have attended most of Khlifeh’s concerts in…

  • It’s spring time again.. Get connected!

    TELECOM | Are we witnessing a new blooming of Jordan’s telecommunication market? Ahmad Humeid surveys the scene The hills are green and the birds are singing. It’s Jordan’s beautiful springtime! The warmth of the sun is not only helping the flowers bloom. It’s also breathing new life into Jordan’s telecommunication sector. Whether it’s the effect…

  • Rachid Taha Rocks the Casbah in Amman

    See a video clip here.. Call it rock, call it punk, call it Rai. I call it an amazing clash! Rachid Taha’s concert in Amman yesterday night was amazing. The house (Al Hussein Cultural Center) was chock full. The light went down and the band moved onto the stage. The lute (or is it a…

  • Tales of nudists and nerds: what our IT industry could learn from Silicon Valley

    Here’s what’s ‘wrong’ with Jordan’s IT scene: there’s not enough weird people in it! Even the young computer science graduates who join our IT companies are not weird enough. In fact most of them are not weird at all. What does weirdness got to do with it? Everything. Take Bill Gates for example, then show…

  • Branding the Cedar Revolution

    Remarkable images have been coming out of Beirut of the past few weeks. Yesterday the Lebanese opposition parties managed to get another huge turnout. Today, the Hizbollah led pro-Syrian rally was even bigger (between “a few hundred thousand” to a million people were on the street, depending on who you want to be believe). We…

  • Fastlink soft-launches new site, designed by SYNTAX 🙂

    I am happy to break the news here. Fastlink today turned on the switch on a brand new website. for a soft launch. This new site was fully architected and designed by SYNTAX. It is one of the most sophisticated and systematic projects we have ever worked on. The team behind the project (apart from…

  • Jordan Times Weekender to be published Thursdays

    The Jordan Times has today announced that, by popular demand, will start publishing the Weekender supplement on Thursday instead of Friday. My articles, which regularly appear on 360east are published in that supplement. The whole idea is that the Weekender is supposed to help people spend a better weekend, so getting it on Thursday should…

  • Got headache? Maybe it’s that flickering screen!

    PC | Ahmad Humeid’s has a tip for a more stable image on your computer screen If using your computer is giving you’re a headache, there’s a good chance you’re simply a victim of a flickering monitor. The problem of screen flicker is yet another proof that PC technology is simply mediocre. Technically, there is…