tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59866682024-03-23T14:53:04.016-05:00Arab ChatterDiscusses & engages writings about the Arab people culture, religion & Politics.Neo-Liberal, secular & very occidental. Seeks the common good in all pluralistic societies. Supports globalization, free market economy & shibboleth. Look inside the blog for engaging articles, helpful hints and timely adviceHatem Abunimehhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10089501384107746137noreply@blogger.comBlogger120125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986668.post-19859723696842113762010-03-17T13:02:00.001-05:002010-03-17T13:05:27.652-05:00Crazy & random thoughtsI feel more lonely when I'm around people than when I'm sitting by myself.I don't like to say anything unless whatever I'm saying will have some benefit of some sort.I fully understand the world but it doesn't want to understand me.I like to read the fine print in every text to make sure that every word is fully comprehensible.I have lots of family members, people I know from distant past but I Hatem Abunimehhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10089501384107746137noreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986668.post-56100772825401367152010-02-02T21:15:00.002-06:002010-02-02T22:01:29.809-06:00Decent Housing For Decent LivingAccording to this http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=23698 published report in the Jordan times, the government represented by the minister of public works is proposing new scheme for the decent housing for decent living project to make it better than the way it is being currently handled.The scheme entails that the house loan pay back period would be extended from 20 to 30 years, the limit imposedHatem Abunimehhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10089501384107746137noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986668.post-89939557772822385672010-01-31T17:03:00.002-06:002010-01-31T17:13:06.310-06:00King's Interview with Fareed ZakariaIn his interview with Fareed Zakaria, King Abdullah stressed that strengthening of the middle class would be a definite plus for the future of Jordan, he didn't exactly use these words but I understood it to mean that way from watching the taped interview. As far as I'm concerned there is no clear definition of what is a middle class in Jordan supposed to mean, over the past few years Hatem Abunimehhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10089501384107746137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986668.post-31699400885171502142010-01-28T13:05:00.002-06:002010-01-28T13:10:38.064-06:00Obama SpeechLast night President Obama delivered his first stste of the union speech, he didn't mention anything about the Arabs or the Palestinian issue, the speech was mainly about his domestic agenda for the United States, it included issues like health care, jobs, deficit, Tax cuts, and other highly ambitious programs. I'm not really concerned so much about the speech, I'm more concerned about the Hatem Abunimehhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10089501384107746137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986668.post-19985176793272776962010-01-26T12:14:00.001-06:002010-01-26T12:15:45.658-06:0050 Postives/ Negatives about JordanI can't believe that I'm joining this charade but nevertheless here we go. My list will include a combination of both positives and negatives. 1) Not being able to find change even for one Dinar 2) Not being able to find public bathroom in downtown after the Husseini Mosque bathrooms close around 9:00pm 3) Watching people and shops in down town 4) Discovering one souq inside another souq inside Hatem Abunimehhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10089501384107746137noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986668.post-37849785189907958022010-01-13T09:27:00.001-06:002010-01-13T09:31:30.090-06:00And Justice for allyou all must by now have heard about the Court of Cassation decision to make the notorious press and publication law apply to the electronic media in the same fashion it applies to all other media. Therefore, all the news websites are now subject to the judgment of the watchful eyes of those in charge of enforcing that law. The exemption clause is rescinded, the honey moon period expired, it isHatem Abunimehhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10089501384107746137noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986668.post-17208166481308320182010-01-12T22:02:00.002-06:002010-01-12T22:12:10.342-06:00SuicideWhat is going on in Jordan?! People are killing themselves left and right, so far six people commited suicide since the start of the new year, that is an average of one suicide every other day.Is the life in Jordan getting so intolerable to the point where people find no way out other than kill themselves. Many years ago,While I was growing up in Jordan the suicide phenomenon back then was a Hatem Abunimehhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10089501384107746137noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986668.post-40050347353419426082009-11-26T18:53:00.002-06:002009-11-26T19:27:06.390-06:00Impolite PeopleWhile in Amman during the summer months everytime I go to the bank someone parks their car immediately behind my car totally preventing me from getting out of my parking spot until they come back and move their car, sometimes I had to wait five minutes other times I waited for as long as twent minutes. When I go downtown and go to the market for shopping someone usually park their car parallel toHatem Abunimehhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10089501384107746137noreply@blogger.com42tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986668.post-9330174757321663182009-11-22T06:41:00.003-06:002009-11-22T07:24:58.470-06:00Orange SucksI take it back, Orange doesn't suck it is the suckiest Internet provider in Jordan.Five months of going back and forth to their offices in various parts of the city, I finally managed to suspend the service order.Actually, there was never any service since I never got connected since my initial application for service, but some how they got tired of me coming back time and time again to check on Hatem Abunimehhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10089501384107746137noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986668.post-23127491669964389242009-11-20T13:35:00.003-06:002012-03-03T14:05:05.024-06:00Hatem Abunimehhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10089501384107746137noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986668.post-62403995655323571772008-11-14T14:23:00.002-06:002008-11-14T14:31:05.736-06:00More Financial woeshttp://www.jordan-business.net/magazine/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=278&Itemid=40أستاذ مروانبدي اعلق على المقابلة تاعت مدير البنك المركزي، يا زلمه ما جاوب ولا على سؤال من ألأسئله الي انت سألته إياها، مع انه ربنا الله الواحد يحكي دينه، اسئلتك كانت جامده وفي الصميم، بس شو الفايده، كل الجوابات كانت لا تمت بصله لأي سؤال. ممكن يعني انك تلخص كل اجوبته بجمله واحده وهي انه كل Hatem Abunimehhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10089501384107746137noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986668.post-89535144952198054462008-10-16T09:38:00.000-05:002008-10-16T09:40:39.252-05:00تحليل حاتم للأزمه الماليهقضية ألأزمه الماليه يا إخوان انه في مصاري كثير لرب العزه ومن كثر ما في مصاري بطلو يلاقو ظايل في ناس بدها تستقرض مصاري. يعني كل واحد فينا مش بس استقرض مصاري كفايه، راح كمان واستقرض زياده شويه فوق قدرته على السداد، حتى في ناس كثير استقرضت مبالغ مش رايحيين عمرهم يقدرو يسددوها حتى لو الله اعطاهم طولة العمر. هذا من ناحيه الناس، بس من ناحية البنوك لسه في مصاري كثير وبدنا كمان ناس تيجي تستقرض لأنه البنكHatem Abunimehhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10089501384107746137noreply@blogger.com212tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986668.post-56759989635567072532008-08-28T16:18:00.001-05:002008-08-28T16:19:28.372-05:00Nits & LiceI know that its gross and disgusting and it sends chills down your spine when you hear about it, but hey according to Alghad Jordanian daily http://www.alghad.jo/?news=356152 more than half of our school children are infested with this pesky insect that invades the person's head and settles in there very comfortably until it gets properly treated with appropriate shampoo, combing, and eradicationHatem Abunimehhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10089501384107746137noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986668.post-39460231039024215902008-08-22T13:10:00.001-05:002008-08-22T13:10:48.253-05:00Messenger of Allah Unites usI don’t think that the demands made by Kurt Westergaard, the Danish cartoonist, in this report appearing in the Jordan Times today, August 22, 08. http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=10225; were very highly outrageous ones.The prisoners at Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba where they have been held since their capture made similar demands and were accommodated. They demanded that the food that they eat Hatem Abunimehhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10089501384107746137noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986668.post-66760688325716760182008-08-16T23:04:00.001-05:002008-08-16T23:08:41.728-05:00Danish cartoonist story revisitedLast month I argued on this blog http://thearabobserver.blogspot.com/2008/07/lets-sue-people-around-world-hurraaay.html that it was okay to sue the Danish cartoonist in the Jordanian courts irrespective of the out come of the law suit. Less than one month after wards we learn in this report http://www.arabianbusiness.com/527794-cartoonist-ready-for-blasphemy-trial-in-jordan that the cartoonist isHatem Abunimehhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10089501384107746137noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986668.post-75690080287762380832008-08-15T21:52:00.002-05:002008-08-15T21:55:24.429-05:00Hate MailFollowing is a hate mail I received today:Anonymous has left a comment : I hate all Arabs. They are evil. They have no reason to live in America, in fact, they have no right to live at all! They are not God's children, they're the Devil's children. They're the ones who caused the 9/11 tragedy. You have to be a brainless idiot to believe Arabs are not evil. They should be killed, murdered, Hatem Abunimehhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10089501384107746137noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986668.post-4801854327540067302008-08-12T13:13:00.001-05:002008-08-12T13:13:47.410-05:00Citizen Journalism and me.I recently learned that the comments that I leave on other people's blogs, stories published in the main stream media, or any comment I leave on any Internet website is classified as a form of citizen Journalism.When I learned that I said to myself holy cow I'm and have been a citizen journalist all along and I don't even know about it.And this comes at a time when I started thinking seriously Hatem Abunimehhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10089501384107746137noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986668.post-66168809546320637662008-08-11T15:12:00.000-05:002008-08-11T15:13:28.154-05:00Clarion CallI don’t know whether it was a fluke, aberration or what. Soon after my last blog about Jordanian bloggers not blogging any more, or not as often as they should be blogging. Jordanian bloggers started showing up one after another. Basem was one of the bloggers that didn’t blog about anything since he got married. I’m not sure that marriage is a cause for not blogging as Samer returned to blogging Hatem Abunimehhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10089501384107746137noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986668.post-39557944408861618382008-08-07T22:52:00.000-05:002008-08-07T22:53:10.411-05:00why they don't blog?I can name at least 50 individual listed in the right hand side of Jordan Blogs page that don't blog at all, and another 15 to 20 other individuals that rarely blog and when they do blog it is usually about something of very little value to anyone on the list. I'm mind full of the presence of millions of blogs in cyber space that are read by no one other than the blogger, yet I'm exclusively Hatem Abunimehhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10089501384107746137noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986668.post-37477721298272168392008-08-05T15:09:00.002-05:002008-08-05T15:16:21.429-05:00Contemporary slave wageshttp://www.arabianbusiness.com/526698-kuwait-sets-new-minimum-wageThis report about the salaries paid to the cleaners put me in a state of depression and gave me a bitter taste in my mouth. I mean how can someone especially with a family is expected to continue living after all of the living expenses are deducted out of his check nets only 8 Kuwaiti Dinars a month. This translates into less than Hatem Abunimehhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10089501384107746137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986668.post-51818076934407312762008-05-19T10:48:00.001-05:002008-05-19T10:49:28.001-05:00Jordan Business Magazinehttp://www.jordan-business.net/magazine/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=241&Itemid=40This is by far the best business report that has been produced by Jordan Business since its inception. Three cheers to Ms. Zaina Steityeh on her succinct reporting. I have been reading Jordan Business from the very first issue until now, while some of the previous business reports were Hatem Abunimehhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10089501384107746137noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986668.post-40758497821090203322008-04-28T13:46:00.000-05:002008-04-28T13:47:34.401-05:00Arabs & US electionsThere is a strong evidence in the media circles suggesting that an Arab American engineer, real-estate developer, and a political activist of Syrian origins named Tony Rezko may end up being the primary cause of ending the democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s chances of becoming president, he may even end up being the main cause of ending Obama’s political career altogether—and--gettingHatem Abunimehhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10089501384107746137noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986668.post-40138260521363918142008-04-25T12:22:00.000-05:002008-04-25T12:23:14.621-05:00What do you want to be?!I spent my entire adult life working in management, was I destined to be a manager all of my life?! I don’t know and no body else knows but that is what it is and that is where it stands right now.But is it possible that at a time when I’m nearing my retirement age still doesn’t know what I really want to be!! I guess by now at this advanced stage in my life it is almost too late to even think Hatem Abunimehhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10089501384107746137noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986668.post-40748398468408199062008-04-24T11:10:00.002-05:002008-04-24T11:15:08.852-05:00Internet StrikeOh those urge to splurge:I think that at the very least the only punishment the people who comply with the call for a strike will get is a verbal counseling or warning from their supervisors for not calling their employers to inform them about their absence and not showing up for work, and at the very most a letter of warning placed in their personal file for failing to come to work. They may Hatem Abunimehhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10089501384107746137noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986668.post-3073634146130189282008-03-11T23:17:00.000-05:002008-03-11T23:18:50.980-05:00Drive Safely.....Blog about JordanLet us face it the whole country is running out of options in terms of what to do about those ongoing never ending day in and day out traffic accidents. They pleaded, beseeched, installed cameras, exhorted, threatened and imposed hefty fines to no avail. People continue with their good old driving habits, accidents continue, and fatalities and injuries get added up to the long list of the ream ofHatem Abunimehhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10089501384107746137noreply@blogger.com36