A flying robot..

An his creator..

..are coming to Amman!!

Go Nagai, the man behind Grendizer is coming to Amman and giving two lectures.

7 October at 11 am at the Princess Sumaya University
8 October at the Royal Film Commission.

This is fantastic. Details here.

When I blogged about Grendizer five years ago, the amount of comments I got was overwhelming. [...]

UPDATED: I had a very friendly chat with the Jordan Times Editor in Chief (who was totally unhappy about what happened with me on Twitter). Obviously, The Jordan Times does not condone the blocking of users from their service nor the style of the communication that was used by the person working on their Twitter [...]

And they even created a video to celebrate the change..

When I blogged about Google’s new Arabic Q&A service a while ago, I received a comment from Wael Ghonim, Google’s MENA Product and Marketing man, noting with interest the issue I (and others) raised about the service’s name “Egabat”. Now, after surveying the community [...]

A Facebook update by my friend Bilal Hijjawi inspired this “360east imitation”
Click to enlarge a little bit

Earlier this year, SYNTAX delivered the brand guidelines of the new Amman Brand to the Greater Municipality of Amman, which was the final delivery of a project that kept us totally immersed in Amman, its history, its people and its character for well over year. It was an intensive process of discovery, research, conceptualization, writing, [...]

Two months ago, my family moved house. Our satellite dish was left on the roof of the old house. Since the move, we’ve been living without a dish, resulting in a purely video-on-demand lifestyle.

So how important is TV for you and your kids? And what happens when conventional satellite TV is absent?

Every family is different, [...]

Dubai Metro by Gulf News

Arabs are car crazed. This is one generalization that is safe to make.
And Arab elites, are big car crazed. That’s another generalization safe to make.

No wonder that public transport systems across the Arab world have not really evolved since the 1960s. Increasingly fueled by easy oil money, and increasingly alienated from [...]