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Posted: June 21st, 2018, 6:48pm UTC
Conspiracy theory is rife in the Arab world, I have no numbers to back this up, but I think more than half the people I sit down with believe there ...
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Posted: September 23rd, 2017, 12:00am UTC
Mount Lebanon - Jabal Lebnan - Le Mont Liban
Summer of 1991
My new friend Rabie' and myself were very close in age, his father said ...
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Posted: September 23rd, 2017, 12:00am UTC
Mount Lebanon - Jabal Lebnan - Le Mont Liban
Summer of 1991
My new friend Rabie' and myself were very close in age, his father said ...
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Posted: June 2nd, 2017, 9:00am UTC
Beirut
Summer of 1991
It was another summer vacation, this time my father promised it will be different. I was a young kid and ...
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Posted: July 2nd, 2016, 7:51am UTC
Every once in a while, especially in Ramadan, I like to take my car through Amman, in Arabic we call it"
سلي صيامك
Meaning ...
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Posted: December 8th, 2015, 9:27am UTC
This article was earmarked for publication under a nom de plume, however, the publisher had a change of heart and I decided that I should publish it on my blog...
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Posted: December 8th, 2015, 9:27am UTC
Today was just one of those days that has to be recorded, I don't know why, but it has to be recorded.
First I took my baby daughter to ...
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Posted: December 8th, 2015, 9:27am UTC
Today was just one of those days that has to be recorded, I don't know why, but it has to be recorded.
First I took my baby daughter to ...
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Posted: November 20th, 2015, 7:30am UTC
This post was written for Stick and Rudder Blog
There is a a certain "je ne sais quoi" about Middle Eastern Aviation, Who is the largest operator of the ...
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Posted: August 29th, 2014, 6:38am UTC
I really waited before I wrote this because I couldn't believe we had reached the end of the story, but apparently we have. A few days ago, the Jordanian Lower ...
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Posted: June 18th, 2014, 12:06am UTC
A moment to be captured was presented to me and I couldn't help but capture it.
Climbing in the skies over the river Rhine (Rhein), I could ...
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Posted: April 26th, 2014, 12:13am UTC
There was a day when a domain name was a simple exercise of national identity, if you were a commercial enterprise you chose .com, otherwise you could be .net for ...
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Posted: April 18th, 2014, 4:25pm UTC
Liverpool Football Club have achieved a level of comfort on the top of the table that I don't recall in my history with the club that goes back 18 years! ...
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Posted: April 12th, 2014, 3:56am UTC
It is a matter of fact that Nigeria is growing at an exponential rate, and it has just been announced that the country has become the continent's largest economy. ...
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Posted: October 26th, 2013, 5:25am UTC
Sometimes when you get up crazy early in the morning, you can't help but think that its one of the downs of being a pilot. An early flight's annoyance is ...
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Posted: August 15th, 2013, 10:36pm UTC
If the world was a fair place, India, the world's second most populous country, should be the world's second largest economy, and the second largest by area. However, it is ...
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Posted: August 4th, 2013, 8:30am UTC
To continue our series on questions to be answered by yours truly, I have picked up a question to delve on this week.
Is there a reverse ...
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Posted: August 1st, 2013, 9:11pm UTC
I was reading with great interest the news about the formation of "The Green Party of Jordan," and I was really tempted to contact those in charge and ...
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Posted: July 26th, 2013, 11:51pm UTC
This week was quite interactive for me, finally! My website and my blog have been getting more correspondence lately, and I have to say I am delighted.
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Posted: July 24th, 2013, 9:55pm UTC
Every pilot has their own list of top questions they get asked whenever people know they are pilots. I have received my fair share of those questions and I wish ...
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Posted: July 22nd, 2013, 11:53pm UTC
Once in awhile, you run into an out of copyright book that you haven't heard of before and that is worth reading, this time the book was 14,000 Miles Through ...
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Posted: July 14th, 2013, 8:48am UTC
For some reason I keep insisting on blogging and writing, although this blog has proven time and again that consistency is not my strongest virtue, but something always itches me ...
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Posted: March 19th, 2013, 5:50am UTC
The unspeakable has happened, an interviewer went rouge and published a series of attacks by King Abdullah on so many fronts that for a few seconds, I checked to see ...
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Posted: March 3rd, 2013, 11:27pm UTC
Jordan is the only country I know that voluntarily reduces duty on cigarettes. Recently, lobbyists for the tobacco industry sat with government officials to reduce duty on cigarettes, citing ...
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Posted: March 1st, 2013, 9:31pm UTC
I have spent a great deal of my free time trying to explore new areas while travelling, yet I haven't found a land so underutilized as Jordan's nature reserves. At the ...
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Posted: February 27th, 2013, 9:00pm UTC
This sight is familiar to me and many of my colleagues around the world. The moment before you leave the hotel is bittersweet to me, I enjoy exploring the ...
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Posted: February 25th, 2013, 10:32am UTC
Once upon a time, I used to write. I enjoyed it, it relaxed me and I got a couple of pieces published. They were my pride and joy and I ...
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Posted: February 9th, 2013, 5:00am UTC
I have tried to maintain an objective stance when it comes to the politics of Jordan. There are mainly two clear schools of thought when it comes to the situation ...
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Posted: April 24th, 2012, 8:01pm UTC
In the fall of 2011, I had the opportunity to visit Gaudi's Magnum opus along with a number of his most prominent work (at least according to the guidebook we bought) ...
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Posted: September 7th, 2011, 1:49am UTC
It has been a while since I read Allegory. When I picked up The Alchemist I tried to leave all notions of grandeur and all prior propaganda aside, I tried ...
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Posted: August 31st, 2011, 10:20am UTC
I am proud to announce the most visited page on my website is: (drumroll please...)Things To Do Before I die. The page with the least personal content and the ...
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Posted: August 26th, 2011, 8:19am UTC
There was a point in time not so long ago when supersonic flight was thought to be decades into the future, as a pilot and an aviation enthusiast I thought ...
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Posted: August 24th, 2011, 11:27pm UTC
Royal Jordanian's identity and company culture has gone through a lot in its 48 years, the place it ended up in is neither the best of places, nor the worst. ...
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Posted: August 18th, 2011, 11:07pm UTC
I picked up a book in the gift shop of The Leela Mumbai, a hotel famous (maybe infamous) for accommodating airline crew and its proximity to the airport doesn't ...
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Posted: August 17th, 2011, 9:05am UTC
A week ago I was considering shutting this blog once and for all, mainly because I lacked the time and the energy, but before I took it down, I wanted ...
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Posted: August 12th, 2011, 1:23am UTC
It made my day, the governmental approval for the creation of "Jordanian Pilots Union." My dear colleagues worked tirelessly in the past weeks and months to ...
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Posted: April 4th, 2010, 4:58am UTC
For those of you who follow my blog, all 3 of you, I'm honestly announcing I'm back, there comes a point in everyone's life where you are just overwhelmed with ...
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Posted: January 10th, 2010, 9:32am UTC
Since my effort of putting "Radi Radi" on my blog seemed to boost my search visibility, and since I am changing my facebook page and many other pages of mine ...
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Posted: January 8th, 2010, 9:57am UTC
My laptop is busted, and I could fix it, but I won't. Instead I am trying to live with the internet, only without sound. It seemed quite simple at first....
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