Highlights of the arts and culture events in Amman this week, February 8-14, 2015.

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The red and white keffiyah wasn’t a common feature of Jordan’s vestiary landscape before the colonial era. Ezra Karmel looks into how this came to be.

Dr. Mohammad Al-Asad writes about the countless unnecessary car trips that people need to make in order to complete what should be simple governmental procedures.

A year and half after the Jordanian government first blocked it, 7iber is now licensed and unblocked.

Rana Sabbagh writes about the grim state of free speech and independent journalism across the Arab World, as the 7th annual forum of Arab Investigative Journalists opens in Amman.

Weeks after moving the popular Friday market from Abdali to Ras al-Ain, have the real reasons and outcomes of this decision been clarified yet?

By Doa Ali, translated by Takwa Masadeh My mother and brothers didn’t want me to go to school because there are a lot of boys around it. I wanted to stay though, I tried to convince them many times but they didn’t approve. Ikhlas, Mafraq, 16. Ikhlas is one of many Jordanian girls who drop.

Rana Sabbagh writes about the dilemma of being a professional journalist in Syria's civil war.

By Jakub Novotný Tamer Bagaein, 23, is trying a new move on his skateboard. He’s falling on his wrists, hitting his ankles, and swearing, but he’s too focused to give up. By-passers are attracted by this somewhat weird spectacle, so they keep watching. Ten minutes later, Tamer lands his new trick smoothly and receives high-fives.