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It seems Jordan has become fully immersed in the conference business. Every month there’s at least one conference and more than half the time they’re a waste of time. From the ground level, most people look at conferences with a cynical view because they feel that they don’t accomplish anything; and most people are right..

Written by Roba Al-Assi On May 16th, I noticed the heavy campus security as soon as I arrived at the University of Jordan at 8:00 AM. Although the security is always there, they seemed a little more ruffled than usual. I leave campus and come back 2 hours later, and the guy who collects money.

Written by Ramsey Tesdell Meet Ihsan Al Hammouri – a Jordanian artist who comes from a family of artists. Its no surprise then, he designed the first Arabic font based on Latin typeface. Insan Ihsan Al Hammouri, a graphic design professor at Yarmouk University, has designed the first Arabic font based on the popular Latin.

Written by Lina Ejeilat Palestine; Peace not Apartheid By Jimmy Carter Former US president Jimmy Carter sets out to overcome the existing restraints on “any debate critical of Israel in the US,” as he puts it, and to present facts about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict unknown to an American audience. Yet, given the fact that this.

The French Cultural Center invites you to the screening of the French film “La Doublure” on Monday 21st of May 2007 at 8:30 pm at Grand Cinemas, Zara Expo. For more details pleas contact The French Cultural Center on +962 6 461 2658.

Kalimat by Daoud Kuttab For the most part the reform process in the Arab world has been stagnant. Political change is moving at a very slow pace despite the claims to the contrary by autocratic leaders. While change from top to bottom is slow and at times nonexistent, the change on the grass roots is.

“Match me such marvel save in Eastern clime / A rose-red city half as old as time,” John William Burgon so aptly wrote in his 1845 poem Petra. After hiking for four days through striking mountain peaks, camping alongside freshwater springs and making our way through cavernous canyons, our first glimpse of the majestic Nabataean.

How do you produce an animation film without any resources or budget? You collect eight dedicated people and over a lunch break at work, thrash out the idea for Jordan’s first 3D animation film. The group, who know each other from work or are studying together, used just two computers to make the film and.

Kalimat by Lina Ejeilat In Story of a City, Abdul Rahman Munif takes us on an intimate journey into Amman of the 1940’s, when it was a small city centered on the flowing water source, the marketplace around the Husseini Mosque, and the Roman Amphitheatre. The first circle, during this period of Amman’s history, was.