By Sara Obeidat, photo by Hussam Da’anah  With the growing disillusionment in the Arab Spring and the democratic change it had promised to bring, and with dictators battling at the front line for political dominance, encouraging political participation and creating channels for political thought and criticism are as important as ever.  “People in the region.

By Samar Ahmad With the Syrian crisis now entering its third year, more than 2.5 million Syrians are currently displaced, both internally and externally. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) indicates that the number of registered Syrian refugees amounts to: 881,755 in Lebanon; 612,570 in Turkey; 571,457 in Jordan; 222,564 in Iraq;  and.

(This post was published by the Jordan Open Source Association (JOSA) on March 12, 2014) By Mohammad Khammash* In my previous post about the use of Open Source on the web, dated 2010, I argued that Open Source software is the backbone of the Web, giving life to web server infrastructure and operating systems and running most.

*To read Digital Citizen in Arabic, click here. Photograph by Hisham Almiraat. *Digital Citizen is a monthly review of news, policy, and research on human rights and technology in the Arab World. Egypt “When detainees ask to see a warrant, they may be hit over the head with the butt of a gun, as in the.

This article was published on Now Lebanon on February 17, 2014, and reposted with permission. By Alex Rowell Since the outbreak of the Syrian crisis in early 2011, Lebanon has witnessed a multifarious deterioration in security, as tensions between domestic supporters and opponents of the Bashar al-Assad regime have sporadically broken out into armed clashes, assassinations,.

By Hala Dasouqi; image by Sierra West 1. Choose any fast food restaurant that you had previously ordered from. Examples: McDonalds, KFC, Popeyes, Pizza Hut, Little Caesar, etc. 2. Call the delivery number of the restaurant you chose; use a number from which you haven’t previously called them. 3. The operator will ask you if you.

By Sara Obeidat  As part of events for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) that took place in Amman this week, Yasir Suleiman, Professor of Modern Arabic studies at Cambridge University and Chair of the IPAF Trustees, gave a talk on “Orientalism and the Translation of Arabic Literature,” hosted by the Columbia University Middle East.

*This post also appeared on Arabic Literature (in English) on February 11, 2014. 7iber and Arabic Lit are collaborating on covering the International Prize of Arabic Fiction (Arabic Booker). To read reviews and interviews, click here. By Siwar Masannat The defensive stance the judges and Chairman of the IPAF Trustees took in response to questions regarding.

This post first appeared on Hibiscus with Ginger on January 29, 2014. Over the past few weeks, Sudanese activists, both in Sudan and abroad, have launched a campaign to lift US digital sanctions on Sudan. Beginning a few weeks ago, their facebook page states that they hope to: “introduce the impact of the US sanctions that.

By Sara Obeidat and Mohammad Hijazi Ahmad is an 11-year-old Syrian from Hama who arrived to Jordan last year with his extended family in search of safety. The family initially settled in Mafraq, a province in Jordan’s north-eastern desert that hosts the Zaatari Refugee camp in addition to tens of thousands of Syrian refugees outside.