It just got political as The Franco/Arab Film Festival censors ‘Son of Babylon’ director’s letter and petition to audience By Kathryn Wilson Iraq’s Missing Campaign The day before award-winning Iraqi Film ‘Son of Babylon’ was set to have its Jordanian premiere and open The Franco/Arab Film Festival in Amman the organisers of the festival told.

By Daoud Kuttab The visitor from Washington, who represented an independent democracy foundation, asked two questions to a group of Jordanian intellectuals: “Where do you see the potential for genuine reform in Jordan and the Arab region? If we were to fund any particular group which would it be? As expected, initial responses focused on.

By: Shalabieh Yesterday I was in the elevator about to leave the office, I pressed GF to go down but instead it went up. It opened on the 5th floor and there a man was waiting. He was a construction worker and it was clear he thought that because of our varying class difference he.

Mexico prepare themselves for the World Cup opener against South Africa at Soccer City in Johannesburg. Photograph: Themba Hadebe/AP Written by Ramsey Tesdell It’s been a year coming. One year ago I sat in front of my glowing LCD laptop, choose cities, matches, and dates indiscriminately. We didn’t even know the teams yet, but I.

By Farah Mehdawi The recent military attacks on the Freedom Flotilla seem to have gotten parts of the world wonder about the Israeli madness, as one would expect. But this time I thought I should just watch my nation’s reaction on such attacks and see if it’s going to be any different, while reflecting on.

Marshall Ganz on People, Leadership and change Interviewed by Ruba Asi Introduction Advisor to president Obama’s campaign on community organizing and leadership development, and professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, Marshall Ganz is an architect of community whose work aims to develop leadership to enable communities to use their resources to achieve their purposes. Ganz.

What if cities are made of invisible threads of narrative woven from the stories of its splendid array of characters playing out their lives on its grand of stage? Words and Photography by Eman Haram I met Hussein Yousef Khalil in spring of 2009, during one of my photography strolls in the walkable neighborhoods of.

Written by Farida Farouk In my religion and spiritual search, I happened to come across literature for authors, especially women who have influenced my interpretation and understanding of Islam. For a long time, I refused to read anything written by Muslim men since they had dominated the conversation for far too long. But through the.

The Dark Side of the Spoon is a comic strip created, written and penciled by Mike V. Derderian, and inked and colored by Waleed Qutteineh. The first official episode appeared in U Men’s August 2009 issue—Thank you Shirene. It follows the lives of Mako, a Mako shark with amphibian abilities and the appetite of—duh—a shark,.

Photography and captions by Samah Arafat and Samar Sarhan.