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.

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.

Photostory by: Nadjib Aktouf

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

تصوير: سونيا الشامي عمال النظافة يتحدون البرد الوفاء للوطن والإخلاص في العمل رغم تحديات الطقس والبرد القارس. شكر خاص لجهود عمال النظافة وشكر خاص لبلدية عمان الكبرى جزاكم الله عنا كل الخير

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,.

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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,.

Photos by Laith Zraikat Kids playing on a swing they built near downtown Amman.