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24 Hour Party People

Proving that when you’re on a roll, you just don’t stop, MC Omar Offendum swings down to Bahrain for the party of the century

Above all, be a Roman my son

The spirit of Ben Hur lives on in the northern Jordanian city of Jerash – and NOX dons the armour, grabs a spear and tries to jump on a chariot

Top 10 Middle East Hotels to avoid

It’s now tourist season, most of us will be spending some time in one of the region’s 32 million hotels. But, trust us, it might be better to avoid these…

Fighting colours

The Jordanian army is learning the fundamentals of hand-to-hand combat from the masters of martial arts

Top Ten Ways to Survive Baghdad

It may have seemed but the 2003 invasion of Iraq has created a situation even more desperate than the one it replaced,

In Chicago, no one can hear you scream

The one thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. But after a flurry of iditotic, clichéd press, Arab punk band Al-Thawra might just disagree

Yeast is East

Having been a war photographer and an airline owner, Mazen Hajjar adds another boys’ own career to his CV – beer maker

Captain’s log

Captain Abu Raed is the first Jordanian feature-length movie in half a century – and writer and director Amin Matalqa gives his account of getting it in the can

Qubic feat

Jordan isn’t exactly on the hip-hop map. Or any musical map. But with talent, connections and a high-speed modem, E-Qube and MC Maze may just be about to change that

War is a four letter word

David Rees’s brilliant, bruising and bleep-ridden comic strip Get Your War On is as old as the War on terror itself. With the bombs falling in Iraq, there’s no real sign it will ever let up