Written by Farah Mehdawi I wasn’t considering this issue a serious matter for discussion, up until the moment it proved itself to be. Lately I presume many have been receiving the commercial messages that telecommunication companies have been sending to mobile phones. This article isn’t supposed to take the form of denunciation, since those messages.

Written by Moamer Khalaileh I felt obliged to write something concerning a recent fatwa (religious ruling) by Al Azhar prohibiting the use of Facebook. Their reasoning: The use of Facebook may lead to illicit relationships between men and women. The Azhar scholars cited a survey that indicated the social networking site was responsible for 1.

Photostory by Samah Arafat and Khalid Jabaly Jabal Amman could be considered as a point of intersection between what is considered to be as the vintage aspect of Amman and the modern aspect of Amman as it still reserves the original taste of the city. This photostory is a walk in Jabal Amman introducing certain.

By Munir Atallah Judging by its nick name, Abu Khalil’s is just about the last place one would expect to find some of the most delicious Chinese food in Amman, but it is.  The name leaves a lot to be explained about Peter Kwai‘s pride and joy, the first Chinese restaurant that opened in Amman..

Inmates at a handicrafts workshop at the Women’s Correctional and Rehabilitation Center in Juwaideh. This is the only women’s correction and rehabilitation center in Jordan. It has around 235 inmates, a third of them non-Jordanian, according to prison officials. Around 70 women are there under administrative detention. For more information read Amnesty International’s reports here.

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Words and photography by Ola Eliwat. Children playing on the street. Cute, and it’s even more cute when you honk at them from some distance and they start running quickly as if they didn’t run fast enough, you would actually go ahead and run them over. The other picture wasn’t as cute. A little girl.

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,.

Photostory by: Nadjib Aktouf

Photo by Khalid Jabaly Father and Son? or Child Labour?