By Ramsey George States often engage with the Internet as “a source of threats to national security interests”1 and as such, are expected to respond to Internet governance and security in this way, by creating offensive cyber capabilities. Despite the ease of placing the Internet governance and security debate within a national security and war-like.

Originally published on SMEX By Mike Pizzi* During the damp months of the Jordanian winter, I was compelled to make a few trips up to the Zaatari refugee camp in Mafraq to try and get a sense of whether Internet access was even on the radar screen there. As I waited around for results from my survey to.

By Sulafah Al-Shami Bernard Khoury is a maverick of his time, perhaps best known for designing B018, a club resembling an underground bunker that was built on the remains of a refugee camp in Beirut in 1998. The 44 year-old Lebanese architect is known for his cutting-edge designs, and is one of the few internationally.

On Friday March 29, Rainbow street was the venue of “Night of the Year”, a photographic stroll organized by the renowned French photography festival “Rencontres D’Arles”. Large screens were set up in different spaces around the street, featuring photo stories by local and international photographers. This event, held in Amman for the first time, concluded.

By Sandra Hiari   Dear President Lee Bollinger, I am writing you tonight from a dusty Amman, as the flags of Jordan and the United States wave high in the streets acknowledging President Obama’s visit to our country. As the world traces his footsteps east of the Jordan River following every diplomatic nod he makes,.

A letter emailed to performing artist Lana Nasser before she embarked on the “Connecting Daughters” walk from Jordan to Jerusalem, asking her to consider withdrawing from the initiative. Lana Nasser embarked on the “Connecting Daughters” walk on March 12th, 2013. By Thoraya Rayyes Dear Lana, I hope this email finds you well. I am writing.

Words by Yousef Nassar, photos by Hussam Da’ana Leaving a management job with Procter and Gamble in 2009 to move to Jordan to join a tourism company seemed a curious choice to say the least. “Why would you do that?” was a question I was usually confronted with whenever I mentioned my intentions to my.

Director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), Glenn D. Lowry, was in Amman this week to deliver a talk at the Columbia University Middle East Research Center. 7iber‘s Sulafah Shami sat down with him for a Q&A on the role of museums in our modern time, and the challenge of creating a dynamic.

The Atlantic Magazine’s feature with HM King Abdullah “Monarch in the Middle” (and the New York Times’ article that highlights some of the main quotes) made headlines all over Jordanian news websites today and generated wide reactions on facebook and twitter. Here are glimpses of comments and reactions. (English translation follows each tweet or comment)

By Ola Doudin After getting a hold of the list of candidates running for this year’s parliamentary elections, I was curious to find out how many women were on it. At a quick glance: in Amman’s districts there are 12 women candidates out of 128,  as reported on the Independent Election Committee’s website. This excludes.