For Jordan, it's 'Remember, remembr the 9th of November'!

From the heart of Amman's hotels, a tragedy remembered by Jordanians and the world, 6 years on.

"Immediately as it was past midnight a flow of tweets started pouring into my timeline remembering a day that will stay in the memory of all Jordanians living either in Jordan or abroad. A day when the phone lines were jammed because everyone wanted to make sure that their loved ones were ok."

"It was an ever-present fear, a vague and unidentified feeling that something could and would happen. Why not? Terrorism was running rogue through the region, especially with the war on Iraq and the whole mess it created, so it seemed like just a matter of time before it knocked on our front door, and the theory didn’t take much time to prove valid."

"One of the worst things that a Bahraini can do these days is log in to Twitter first thing in the morning. Actually, that in itself is okay, but if you search for the #Bahrain hashtag, consider your whole day screwed!"

" 'Pffff... what about this UNESCO thing?' he exhales smoke noisily as he repeats my question back at me.

'I dunno... congratulations I guess.' I venture, shivering against the wind."

"It is often said that the Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is aging and suffering from a wide range of sicknesses. Algerians mock him as a Micky Mouse president; he is short and old and there are many videos and images on the Internet of his face pasted to a dancing baby or cartoon character..."