Picture by Samah Arafat Construction of a new wall on Jebel al Qal3a continues as opposition mounts against the gentrification of the area. If interested in helping with creative resistance to this project, please contact us.

Date: 26 Apr 2009. Location: The Abdali project construction area behind Ministry of Industry and Trade. Just off Al-Ameen St. Alyafawi I have a baby dream that each child riding an automobile in Jordan actually sits down safely. Most frequently, they’d be at the rear seat area, not sitting, between the 2 front seats, probably.

 مريم أبوعدس   تقشعر الأبدان لسماع قصة الطفل يزن. فمن المؤلم معرفة أنه تم تحمل هذا الكم الهائل من الظلم من قبل طفل أعزل في ربيعه الخامس. اما الأ صعب من ذلك، فهو اكتشاف أنه يوجد بيننا أمثلة حيه لأشخاص لديهم القدرة على إزهاق أرواح أطفالهم بهذه الهجمية أكثرما لفت انتباهي في هذه القصة هي.

Alyafawi We find it very common to see a large proportion of inhabitants in London, New York and other major Western world cities frantically reading away whatever reading material they’d laid their hands on while in transport from A to B, whether in the train, bus or other moving vehicle. While waiting at the traffic.

Nadine Touqan Given the rise in tragic situations with women and youth, and the desperate behaviour of men, women and society in general – all leading to the demise of the family unit and our human values, it’s probably high time to up the ante. This country is way too small to be falling apart.

Photo Courtesy: Laith Majali  

By Iraatus The new political reform “road map” being prepared by Political Development minister, Mousa Ma’aytah, has one huge fallacy as if the minister, who is a staunch supporter of political parties’ rights in Jordan, finally succumbed to the pressures of being part of the same government he opposed. The fundamental error in the road.

  ميس أبو عدس لأول مرة  اقود في نفقً بلا أضواء، فقد تم قطع الكهرباء عن منطقة العبدلي الواقعة عند مقر كلية القدس القديمة، إذ تم إكمال هدم مجموعة من المباني و العمارات مما أدى أيضاً إلى إغلاق بعض الشوارع الرئيسية. منظر رهيب و مخيف، مما دفع جميع السيارات المارة في تلك المنطقة و خصوصاً.

Written by Ramsey Tesdell It would be one thing if I was blonde, blue-eyed, and had terrible/no Arabic. But I’m not; I have long curly brown hair, brown eyes and a complexion that a paint catalog would describe as ‘warm olive.’ It is for this reason that I become irate every time I am overcharged.

On Thursday 16th April at 7 pm the Al-Hussein Cultural Centre in Ras al-Ain is opening its doors to an event arranged by The Danish Centre for Culture and Development in close cooperation with the Danish Embassy and the Royal Film Commission. Written by H.E. Thomas F. Lund-Sørensen Danish Ambassador Beyond Stereotypes – as the.