By Rami Abdelrahman A few months ago, I took the boat from Andalusia to Morocco. From the Spanish port town of Algeciras to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta (Sebta) behind Jebel Mousa. From Babylon to Zion. From Europe to Africa. As the boat broke through the waves linking the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, I went up to the top deck.

By Sandra Hiari A full calender year has lapsed since March 24th, a day that is embedded in our minds as Jordanians. It certainly has proved to be a marker in the modern history of our humble country since it comes as a local repercussion of January 25th – a date that is associated with the toppling of the.

A quick look at the Arab world today enables us to reach a simple conclusion; that almost every Arab country is shaping a political discourse underpinned by what observers call “identity politics”.  By May S In Lebanon, it is largely the religious sect you belong to that identifies your political preferences. In neighboring Syria, observers.

By Alexander McNabb I’ve just had the news. Olives – A Violent Romance won’t be going on sale in Jordan. The first distribution company that turned it down didn’t give a hard reason, just a lot of corporate weasel words about them being ‘currently overloaded with existing distribution projects’. As someone who writes corporate weasel.

By Majd Muhsen A conference is currently held in Herzliya in occupied Palestine from 29 Jan. – 2 Feb. 2012 on national security. No problem there until you go through the list of speakers and find a number of Arab figures, including Prince Hasan Bin Talal, Saeb Erekat and a number of other speakers from.

By Lana Alamat  In the past few months, the media has been dominated with news of the government’s campaign to fight corruption and, most recently, the detentions relating to the Greater Amman Municipality files. Trust me when I say that 90 percent of the information published by the media has been legally and technically inaccurate..

A response to Dana Suleiman’s “Ana Mish Mastoora” and the comments on that article By Siwar Masannat When I read Dana Suleiman’s article on 7iber yesterday, I felt she expressed something that often bothers me as a Jordanian woman and a feminist. She articulated a subtle, yet I think, very important issue that is by no.

By H. Who am I? Because of a deeply guarded secret that I only recently came to terms with myself, I had never been able to define who I am. Let me tell you a little bit about me. I am a 20-something-year-old male who grew up  in the affluent part of Amman. My parents.

  By Sandra Hiari   On December 18, the Arab Spring will blow its first candle. Many a times I find myself living in a nook in the Middle East dubbed by Ahmad Humeid as a “Confused Arabia” (in the opening banner of  360°East). As a full annual cycle of the Arab Spring is about.

By Salam Najjar As a Ammani mother of the 21st Century, I was very reluctant to allow my kids to go off to the “7ara”. Our streets are not as safe as they used to be when we were little, and the cozy Ammani society we grew up in is nothing but fond memories. Memories,.