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The 80′s refusing to leave: Shmeisani and the death of Ammani human-scale urban modernity 3 Mar 2013 | 03:40 pm
Even as Amman is today starting to rediscover its old downtown, and its old neighborhoods like Jabal Amman's First Circle and Rainbow Street and Jabal Al Luweibdeh, the blocks of Shmeisani are undergo...
Why Facebook is more important than Google now 14 Oct 2012 | 10:03 pm
If Google would disappear off the face of the earth tomorrow: I will use Bing for search. I will use my Yahoo Mail or Outlook.com for email. My company email also depends on GMail but I guess we can j...
Once upon a time HM King Abdullah II commented on a blog 9 Sep 2012 | 11:14 pm
It was just four years ago that HM King Abdullah II commented on The Black Iris, the well known Jordanian blog. You can see His Majesty’s comment here. In that comment the King said: “We are a country...
More from IFA and the future of TV: dual viewer screens, the war of 3D glasses and magic remotes 7 Sep 2012 | 10:24 pm
My previous post from my trip to the IFA consumer electronics show was all about OLED and 4K and what LG, who invited me to the show, were promising consumers for the years ahead in the field of TV. B...
55″ OLED TVs and 84″ 4K screens: the next evolutions of TV are here 2 Sep 2012 | 02:49 pm
Trips to the local electronic superstores in Amman will be a frustrating experience for me in the coming few years. Why? Because I seen the future of TV screens at the Berlin’s IFA consumer electronic...
The best of IFA 2012: Jordan’s tech reporters uncover the show’s best kept secret 31 Aug 2012 | 07:41 pm
Forget about 84” screens with 4K resolution.. Forget about OLED and true blacks. Forget about 3D with active glasses, passive glasses and no glasses. Forget about tablets, smartphones and super thin l...
Why am I joining the Jordan Internet Blackout 28 Aug 2012 | 12:08 pm
For the past decade and a half, a large part of my belief in Jordan as a homeland has been based on the fact that we had a free uncensored internet (yes I know about the Arabtimes.com exception, but l...
Internet freedom in Jordan: the beginning of the end? 31 Jul 2012 | 06:54 pm
Whenever journalists, investors or ordinary people ask me: why has Jordan been able to shine in the region in the field of technology, web business and web content, one of my standard answers has alwa...
Oh harsh and gentle Amman, when will you smile? 18 Jul 2012 | 02:32 pm
A story about love and life in Amman unfolds on an outdoor screen on an unusually hot summer evening. Behind that very screen, the lights from thousands of windows glimmer. It is there, on those hills...
my new year’s book buying binge 2 Jan 2012 | 09:54 pm
Looks like Prime Books at Baraka Mall is doing a clearance sale. I was lured into the store by a “50% off” sign. I walked out with so many books, a shop assistant had to actually help carry them to th...
