Our second sessions starts off on the topic of Jordanian media laws. Leading the discussion is Al-Ghad journalist Ashraf Al-Raee whose master’s thesis was on the same subject. Everyone seems really intruiged and a hundred questions are launching various side discussion revolving on the same topic. I think it shows just how important the idea.

7iber’s first workshop on citizen media “Rough Draft” took off an hour ago, and the discussions are getting more interesting by the minute. Participants from different backgrounds introduced themselves as managers, students, bloggers, volunteers and others all with a common interest in blogging and citizen media. They came to know more about citizen media and.

As we start our first session, we’ve introduced blogging and various blogging concepts, covering things like aggregators, bridge-blogs and platforms; highlighting things like Global Voices, iToot, Jordan Blogs, Technorati and other important sites. Part two of the session has been mostly discussion-driven, orchestrated by a 7iber team-member, Mariam. We posed a few questions, the most.

Today we launched our very first workshop; the first of (hopefully) many in the days, months and years to come. The idea is not to dictate or “teach” or “train” anyone in citizen media, but rather to achieve a few objectives. The first is to briefly introduce people to blogs, especially young Jordanians that may.

By Ramsey G. Tesdell and Mariam A. Adas AMMAN – “You have to be prepared,” Mostafa Salameh said one recent evening in Amman as the sun set. Years of running, swimming, and mental and physical preparation to climb to the highest point on the Earth, not to mention a heart rate of 40 beats per.

Photo by Marie-Anne Hollenz

Written By Mariam A. Adas and Ramsey Tesdell AMMAN – What does one do when your neighborhood, the place you live and play in, fills up with trash? For one thing, you don’t wait for the municipality to do something. For a handful of youngsters in Ashrafiyya, the best way to clean up their neighborhood.

Written By: Naseem Tarawnah I finally mustered up the courage to log in to the Greater Amman Municipality (GAM) website and check out what traffic tickets have been burdened up on this meager Jordanian wage-earner. Ever since the GAM announced that the average citizen (with broadband Internet access) can check out their fines online, courage.

By Dr. Mohammed Dalabih Reading Al-Ghad’s newspaper article on homosexuality in Jordan, I was shocked by how old and outdated the views of the medical officials in Jordan about homosexuality are. In this article I am trying to point out medical and scientific mistakes made by the official in that article. The first paragraph translates.