In the 1,000 years since the reign of the Caliph Mamoun as many books have translated into Arabic as Spain translates in one year, according to the 2002 Arab Human Development Report. In recent years there have been several initiatives around the region to address this issue. Beirut, which was named World Book Capital by.

Islam has had an enormous positive impact on life, culture, and thought around the world. Yes, despite this rich history, Farida Farouk argues that recent “rediscoveries” of Islam are leading the world’s fastest growing religion down a dangerous path. Governments and autocratic regimes need to change and adapt a secular policy in order to modernize.

Leadership, leadership, leadership. These days, it seems that everyone is being trained on how to be a leader. The Jordan River Foundation recently completed a program, Youth Leadership Program 2010, to train leaders to be more active in their communities. The program targets youth volunteers providing them with necessary skills and training to enable them to.

By Lara Marto Zakharef in Motion Festival kicked on the night of April 12th at the Hussein Cultural Center with a show by renowned flamenco dancer Rocio Molina. Born in Málaga in 1984 Rocio started dancing as early as age three, when she began her professional training, completing her career in 2002 at the Real.

By Regina Mamou* To engage in a daydream is to allow the mind to wander while awake and in doing so, to entertain fantasies with limitless creativity. In an improvisation on this meaning, Toleen Touq, an Amman-based artist, creates limitations for the waking dream, confines it, and sets it free again for the listener. Before.

Written by Raghda Butros Today I had a meeting with the headmaster of one of Amman’s public boys’ schools who I was told by several people was cooperative and progressive. As I waited for him outside his office while one of the kids called him down for our appointment, I was trying to get a.

Join 7iber, Hamzet Wasel, and the Friends of Jabal Weibdeh Association this coming Saturday as we set out to collect stories in photos and sound from around the neighborhood and put them together in audio slideshows. We will meet at Makan Art Space at 11:00 am and discuss story ideas before going out in small.

A man killed both his wife and her sister; a husband hammered his wife’s head open; a youth stabbed his college classmate to death; and another shot a man in vengeance: the misery pours out of the local press. In less than a week our press has reported more acts of murder that are seemingly unrelated, yet all that could be found in common between these crimes is that they were unjustifiable and avoidable with a little self-restraint. But it seems that self-restraint is a characteristic we still have to create in our society.

Written By Ramsey Tesdell Humans, by their very nature are social beings. From tribes, to families, to business; we interact with tens of people, possibly hundreds, each day. Throughout history human interactions were restricted to a strictly physical encounter; as technology has developed our interactions aren’t limited within a physical proximity, and now the internet.

Written by Farah el-Sharif After countless festering cases of sexual abuse among Catholic Church clergy worldwide surfaced over the past month, Pope Benedict’s personal preacher compared attacks on the Church and the pope to “collective violence” against Jews. Needless to say, rabbis and Jews worldwide were appalled at the comparison of the Holocaust with allegations.