by Dalia Majed In arid Amman, where we’re starting to have dust storms in summer and where every tree is worth a fortune, one would hope that a few olive trees might have escaped the uprooting and relocation that the municipality started a couple of years ago. A few days ago I heard the ominous.

Written by Ali Dahmash The recent ads that appeared in the local papers to visit the Holly Sites in Jerusalem have made the committee of anti–normalization in Jordan concerned, calling for boycotting such visits. The committee announced that visiting religious sites under the spears of the occupation is a true normalization with Israel. The Travel.

Over the next six years, if things work out as municipal planners hope, the entire way downtown Amman works will change — for the better. Here are some details on the grand plan. Written by Nicholas Seeley. Provided by JO Magazine. UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF HE Mayor Omar Maani, the Greater Amman Municipality has embarked.

Municipal officials have said demolitions are not part of the plan for the historic neighborhood of Jabal Qalaa — but within the local community mistrust still lingers. Part 1 of 3. Words by Nicholas Seeley. Provided by JO Magazine. OVER THE LAST FOUR months, a dispute has been simmering between the Greater Amman Municipality, the community activist.

This video is a response to Reem al-Masri’s piece about Dr. Joseph Massad’s lecture.

Picture by Samah Arafat

HM sends a strong message: everything is perfect….nothing will change…..doubters beware. Written by Musa al-Shuqairi Almost a year after his famous “I-am-either-a-partner-in-the-conspiracy-or-unaware-of-it” press release masquerading as an interview in which he managed to end a wide and peculiar range of speculated issues extending from the head of the Royal Court (at the time) to the.

Written by Reem al-Masri While it was only a 45 minutes talk, Joseph Massad’s lecture “Why we should not study Gender in the Arab world” triggered a discussion that lasted for 3 solid hours. Massaad was very critical of international development NGOs (INGO) rhetoric when it comes to addressing gender rights in the Middle East.

Written By Daoud Kuttab This is a story about one fleet of vans, two companies and three governments. The van is a 9 seat hundai which travels a three kilometer route joining the passport terminal on both sides of the King Hussein Bridge. The companies are a Jordanian one and an Israeli. The Jordanian company:.