Photography by Nadjib Aktouf. Interview and production by Ramsey Tesdell. This audio slideshow is a result of one of 7iber’s Saturday meet-ups. If you’re interested in attending our meetups, email us at meetups@7iber.com. هذه القصة المصورة من انتاج إحدى لقاءات حبر التي تقام أيام السبت إذا أردتم حضور لقاءات حبر للتصوير والكتابة، أرسلوا لنا بريدا.

For Tamer Masri says, the co-founder of Jo Bedu, its about serving the public good or the Pro Bona, as he likes to say. A self describe tribe, Jo Bedu, located In Jabal Weibdeh, is a store that sells t-shirts with localized funny sayings. But they aren’t just about making you smile when putting on.

Islam has had an enormous positive impact on life, culture, and thought around the world. Yes, despite this rich history, Farida Farouk argues that recent “rediscoveries” of Islam are leading the world’s fastest growing religion down a dangerous path. Governments and autocratic regimes need to change and adapt a secular policy in order to modernize.

خط أحمر على حبر |عمك سام

Leadership, leadership, leadership. These days, it seems that everyone is being trained on how to be a leader. The Jordan River Foundation recently completed a program, Youth Leadership Program 2010, to train leaders to be more active in their communities. The program targets youth volunteers providing them with necessary skills and training to enable them to.

By Lara Marto Zakharef in Motion Festival kicked on the night of April 12th at the Hussein Cultural Center with a show by renowned flamenco dancer Rocio Molina. Born in Málaga in 1984 Rocio started dancing as early as age three, when she began her professional training, completing her career in 2002 at the Real.

By Regina Mamou* To engage in a daydream is to allow the mind to wander while awake and in doing so, to entertain fantasies with limitless creativity. In an improvisation on this meaning, Toleen Touq, an Amman-based artist, creates limitations for the waking dream, confines it, and sets it free again for the listener. Before.

Written by Raghda Butros Today I had a meeting with the headmaster of one of Amman’s public boys’ schools who I was told by several people was cooperative and progressive. As I waited for him outside his office while one of the kids called him down for our appointment, I was trying to get a.

بقلم ريما الصيفي قلة هي الأماكن التي عندما تطأ قدمك أرضها تشعرك  بالثبات والألفة. كنت دائما على يقين أن عمان غاليتي لن تشعرني بغربة في أحضانها …قد تمر أيام غضب وجفاء …لكن في كل مرة لا تطول. كان  الغضب هذه المرة  من انكار بعض أهلها (بعض أهلي) انتمائي لها لأصولي القادمة من غرب النهر ..هذا.

A man killed both his wife and her sister; a husband hammered his wife’s head open; a youth stabbed his college classmate to death; and another shot a man in vengeance: the misery pours out of the local press. In less than a week our press has reported more acts of murder that are seemingly unrelated, yet all that could be found in common between these crimes is that they were unjustifiable and avoidable with a little self-restraint. But it seems that self-restraint is a characteristic we still have to create in our society.