Unspeakable Love by Brian Whitaker | University of California Press, 2006 Review by Siwar Masannat   In Unspeakable Love, Brain Whitaker has dared to venture into the world of “Gay and Lesbian Life in the Middle East”. The book mostly deals with Arab countries and three of the 22 in some detail: Lebanon, Egypt, and Saudi.

By Budour Hassan Hardly an eyebrow was raised when Autostrad, the Jordanian funk-rock band, announced its decision to hold concerts throughout occupied Palestine and in the occupied Golan Heights between October 5 – 12. Autostrad’s upcoming tour, which includes scheduled gigs in Ramallah, Jerusalem, Jaffa, Nazareth, Haifa, and the Golan, will not be the band’s.

September 25, 2013 marked 10 years since Edward Said’s passing. Various blogs, magazines, and news outlets celebrated his legacy and wrote of his contributions to Comparative Literature in English, specifically Postcolonial Studies; music; the political and intellectual landscape of his time; as well as his support of Palestinian human and political rights. 7iber gives you.

Image by Shutterstock  By: Reem Almasri In autocratic counties such as Jordan with no system built to ensure accountability, models of control over internet access may range from legislative measures enforced by the government to informal techniques exercised by the private sector. Formal censorship techniques are exercised through a legislated framework for law enforcement  to.

Richard Peña, a renowned film studies professor and film curator, was in Amman last week for a five-day course on film studies at the Columbia University Middle East Research Center and a series of screenings of classical Latin American films at the Royal Film Commission. After leading the prestigious New York Film Festival for 25.

A February 2000 photo of Ali Maher and my four-year-old daughter Huda wearing his Circassian hat. By Mohammad al-Asad I cannot remember when I first met Ali Maher. I feel as if I had always known him. I think it was in 1994, soon after he became the director of Darat al-Funun. Our families had.

By Wisam Suheimat* Arabic is a rich and sophisticated language that can evoke vivid imagery and powerful emotions in the reader, but Arabized ads and collateral material like brochures that were originally conceived and created in a different language, typically English for multinational clients, tend to struggle at replicating the same impact, meaning and personality..

By Nayef Copty With the Jordanian government blocking access to around 300 “unlicensed” websites, in a blatant yet pathetic attempt to limit our freedom of speech, we now join other backward countries including Saudi Arabia and North Korea in having a government that tries to regulate the Internet (what a beautiful list to be on,.

The Press and Publications Department has initiated a ban on all Jordanian news websites that have not yet registered and been licensed by the government agency. According to an official memo (see below), the head of the Press and Publications Department, Fayez Al Shawabkeh has issued orders to the Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (TRC), complete with.

Originally published on SMEX By Mike Pizzi* In April, I returned to the falafel stands and cell phone kiosks of Zaatari’s makeshift market to ask Internet users what they were doing online. I already knew the lengths to which people were going in order to acquire Internet-ready devices and siphon electricity from the grid to charge them..