The names of the 57 victims of the 2005 Amman bombing remembered  We have got into the habit of collecting a poster from all the pla...

There's a wall in our house slowly being covered with posters. We like neat poster art, and they're from places and artists tha...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) There comes a time when some form of reality has to intrude into writing novels, usually when you feel s...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I first met Jordanian blogger, trouble maker and Converse-loving spectacle rack Roba Al-Assi at the inaugura...

Lynch smiled. ‘Do you actually like her? She doesn’t seem your type.’ ‘That’s none of your business.’ He leaned forward, his smile fad...

Now! Buy the book Jordan's bookstores didn't want you to see! Thanks to the embargo busting online superheroes at Jordanian...

Many years ago, in 2005, I was proud to be one of the sponsors an artshow called 'Into the light', which protested the Amman bom...

I thought long and hard before posting this, but I think there are some issues around it that really strike to the heart of our region ...

Image via Wikipedia As I shared over on the Olives blog last night my debut novel, Olives - A Violent Romance, is not to be ava...

Image via Wikipedia The Expat Women's Book Club meets regularly at Paul Café in Jumeirah's Mercato shopping mall and had dec...

Image via Wikipedia I flew to Jordan this week to speak and also gave a workshop on digital communications at the MediaME Digital ...

It's an odd feeling, there's a strange finality sending my novel Olives to the printers. I've sent dozens of magazines, year...

Image by vial3tt3r via Flickr Actually writing a book is easy as pie. You just take 75-100,000 words or so and put them down on paper. The...

Image via Wikipedia "A Facebook group on the conflict between the army and Fatah Al Islam in Lebanon grew a membership of 8,000 in a...

Image via Wikipedia Daoud stood. ‘Have you ever seen an olive tree, Paul? Come with me, I’ll show you our little grove of olives we keep her...

Image by APAAME via Flickr Aisha took us downhill into a leafy avenue of fine old houses before she gestured, her wooden bangles clacking. ...

Channel 4 DJ Neil 'Jay' Grayson asked what there was to do in Jordan. And here's an answer. It's not necessarily the answer...

Uncelebrated by the region's English language media, a spat of some considerable proportions has been going on in Jordan, where the Jord...

Gulf News carried a series of spreads today marking 'Al Nakba', which is Arabic for 'the catastrophe', the Palestinian day ...

I do hope you remember the story of Jordanian expatriate blogger Husain (Who-Sane) and his father, who was so appallingly treated in an Amma...