Finally!

I’ve been covering developments in getting Amman and Jordan mapped electronically for a few years now, at one point even suggesting that we as users just do it ourselves!

This whole GPS maps and navigation business in Jordan was being held up for over a year by what seems to be [...]

For the past two years, the subject of Amman has been unavoidable for me. Not only do I live in this city, but I’ve also been, with my company SYNTAX, involved in the first big branding effort this city has undertaken. I am overdosed on Amman! The branding project has been completed but writing about [...]

It’s been a long time in the making, but now its here.

Never before has Amman’s story been presented to its citizens and guest so vividly and comprehensively. It’s still a work in progress that Ammanis and their guest will complete in the coming months and years. I am talking about the Amman Centennial website, branded [...]

A couple of weeks ago, as I was driving up from Ras AL Ein to the the 3rd Circle, I noticed something interesting on the street. Apparently this is the first prototype of Amman’s new bus shelters. I stopped the car, then waited (quite a bit) for the two ladies sitting there to get on [...]

Will we be riding a modern metro and bus system that takes us across Amman with comfort and ease?

Any serious discussion about Amman and its problems is bound to hit upon the issue of transport. Wether we’re complaining about the increasing occurrence of traffic jams, how Amman has turned into a car city, how we [...]

Monocle’s Tyler Brule shares a thought on the Invest Iraq conference held in London a couple of days ago:

FT.com / Columnists / Tyler Brûlé – Between Iraq and a marketplace:
I couldn’t see any indication of where the Iraqi leadership was heading next, but I imagine their global tour has quite a bit to do with [...]