Muslim women: protesting the right to cover your neck in sport

Iranian women's football team pioneers the rights of women to keep their necks off the (goal) line by hiding them; Going back in time with a very modern phenomenon's aid - Twitter- in Jordan; What's going on with Kuwait's internet; and recalling Dr. Death and the medical experience's inevitable experience with death.

Kabobfest [2]

FIFA: Control, Women’s Bodies & The Soccer Field

"On June 3rd the Iranian Womens National Soccer Team was disqualified minutes before their Olympic qualifier match with Jordan. The rationale was that the full-body tracksuits and matching caps seen here were a violation of FIFA’s uniform code."

Sleepless in Amman [3]

GOOD OLD DAYS JO!

For those that speak the language of Twitter, and care to remember their memory lane and favorite haunts in Jordan: "....So I figured I would bring them into my Sleepless Blog, here is a list of my favorite “#GoodOldDaysJO” Tweets, do you have any Good Old Days Jo moments you’d like to share?"

His n Hers Q8 [4]

Kuwait Internet: Fast Vs Quantity #Q8cap

"So Kuwaiti blogs and internet users are creating this campaign to stop ISPs from capping the internet usage. I got some points regarding the internet and how it is used."

Hareega [5]

Life and Death and Dying and the Journey with Dr. Death

A newly qualified doctor shares her experience with medical journeys that may end in death, reminding us of the specter of Death in the '90s in the aptly name Dr. Death-- that doctor gone off the rails and killing patience in his charge. "A doctor in America is killing his patients" is all what I remember from watching the news on Jordan TV sometime in the early 1990s. It was a horror story. The doctor's name was Dr. Kevorkian but he was called Dr. Death." "Death has become part of my daily life since I decided to become a doctor. I remember my first patient who died, the first corpse I saw in anatomy class, the first freshly-dead body dissected in the forensic medicine course."