Best of the Rest: Choosing not to Choose
An excellent piece by Raghda Butros, on being an ‘Arab Christian Muslim Secular Jordanian Palestinian citizen of the world’: When …
Category Archives: Jordan
Arab-Americans: De Facto Counter-Terror Targets
A chilling account of the use of ordinary Arab-Americans as test cases in counter-terrorism initiatives at a grassroots level: The …
The Third Intifada
It is erupting on all sides and the bitter irony of the involvement of Lebanese forces in silencing pro-Palestinian protesters …
Jordan, Rentierism and Reform
A rather interesting document courtesy of Marwan Muasher of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, A Decade of Struggling Reform Efforts in Jordan: …
The Brothers Hajjaj
…Are creating much awesomeness through their challenging cartoons: Jordanian brothers Osama and Emad (better known as Mahjoob) have covered topics …
The Revolution of the Youth
Or is it? Although today’s workshop ‘Arab Youth Politics: Challenges and Aspirations’ primarily aimed to gage the involvement of the …
A Childhood Lost
Or gained? Amer Daboub’s animated short ponders the question of technology and the young (and perhaps not-so-young) beautifully: According to …
Jordanian Protests
Continue in earnest. Spanning four successive Fridays the protests have ended more or less peaceably. Comprising of Islamist and Leftist parties, …
Palestine Papers: Day II
And the revelations continue to pour forth. On the agenda is refugees: of the 7.2 million scattered worldwide, the number …
When Education Becomes Abuse
As a mathsphobe, the following brings back memories of the seedlings of numerical terror being sown: It is beyond deplorable …
