Work travel and blogging don't mix well. Twitter's expectation of 140 characters seems much more manageable, so my social networking was mostly limited to tweeting while in the land of the Pharoahs (Egypt) and neighboring Jordan. Media there give many different perspectives: on TV, Al Jazeera English competes well the BBC and CNN International and for printed news, the Daily News Egypt and the Jordan Times provide local news in English. The big controversy in Egypt was the culling of all 300,000 pigs that are raised and eaten by its minority Christian population. Financial devastation takes a deadly turn as well. US politics regularly makes it in the news such as this analysis of US-Arab relations inAl-Ahram. On a lighter cultural note, hip-hop hits the streets of Helwan. Jordanians get ready for the Pope's visit and contemplate the significance of social networking.(View from Umm Qais in northern tip of Jordan)
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