What is our role today? And how do we build a new sustainable model for independent journalism in this region? Questions we ponder as we mark 10 years since 7iber's launch.

Entrepreneurship is promoted as a realm open to anyone with courage and perseverance, but the reality is much more complicated.

By Zahra Hankir In August 2013, Egyptian security forces raided a sit-in camp in Cairo filled with hundreds of protesters supporting ousted President Mohamed Morsi. According to Human Rights Watch, the ensuing clashes between the army and supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood at Raba’a Square left at least 817 civilians dead. It’s near-impossible to imagine.

James Cain writes about how stigma and inadequate reporting on HIV in Jordan and the MENA region hinder treatment and prevention.

For over a year, users in Jordan were not able to reach the Internet Archive website. So who blocked it?

Article 308 of the Jordanian penal code continues to legalize rapists marriage to their victims, after the government withdrew a cosmetic amendment it had proposed.

Whenever social media reveals the failings of the state in the administration of public affairs, the state turns to the users of Twitter or Facebook, accusing them of publishing rumors and dissent.

What does it mean to be an Arab classical composer in the twentieth century?

Translated by Hani Al Barghouthi This article first appeared on 7iber in Arabic  on July 14, 2016. On the 28th of July 2010, teachers and many other citizens marched together from the Madaba bridge to Karak in solidarity with Adma Zureiqat and her colleagues, who had all been forced to take suspended retirement following a.

For the first time since 2009, the UN Security Council passed a resolution condemning Israel and the U.S did not veto it. What are Obama’s motives? And what does it really mean?