Words & Photos By: Naseem Tarawnah The Action Committee spent the past ten days in Ramadan collecting funds for Ramadan food bags and on September 20th, went down to the Hussein Refugee Camp to distribute them. The campaign, driven mainly through online activism with the help of Facebook, emails and Jordanian blogs, was able to.

Written By: Ramsey Tesdell A community forum in Salt was held recently to determine the needs and wants of the community in Salt. The Amman Institute, a spin off of the Amman municipality, organized the event after the Salt municipality solicited their help in developing a master plan for Salt. The event took place in.

Written By: Susan Miller-Coulter Cast of characters:  Fourteen young ladies, two mini-video cameras, two teachers, a film-maker, and a volunteer climbed into a commuter bus on a blazingly hot morning. Checklist: Release forms for interviewing “people on the street,” spare tapes for the mini-cams, permission from police for filming in public locations, and water; except.

Words & Photos: Naseem Tarawnah It starts with an idea. A blogger who emails another, who emails a friend, and before you know it, you have an online campaign spreading through the local blogosphere and social networking sites. Some might call it online activism coming alive, but at the end of the day, it took.

A few weeks ago, the 7iber crew met up with a few brilliant young residents of Jabal Al-Ashrafyah, who, in the absence of any official help from their City, had taken up the task of cleaning up their streets. Last Thursday, the 7iber crew went back to the Jabal to see what had changed since.

The Action Committee is accepting collections of school supplies to distribute amongst under-privileged students in the Kingdom. The last day to receive any donations is next Tuesday the 19th. The committee is looking for the following items: – Backpacks & pencil cases. – Sweatpants, sweatshirts, socks (for P.E.) – Pencils, pens, erasers, rulers. – Notebooks,.

Written By Mariam A. Adas and Ramsey Tesdell AMMAN – What does one do when your neighborhood, the place you live and play in, fills up with trash? For one thing, you don’t wait for the municipality to do something. For a handful of youngsters in Ashrafiyya, the best way to clean up their neighborhood.

Written By Lina Ejeilat It was one year ago, on Jordan’s Independence Day, that we officially launched 7iber dot Com. Many a time in the past year, we stopped to look at what it is we were trying to do and how well ideas were translated into actions and results. That’s an ongoing process. But.

HM Queen Rania has started a new initiative in honor of International Youth Day, where via the power of YouTube, she’ll be attempting to break down the stereotypes associated with the Arab world.

The Goethe-Institute Jordan invites young journalists from Mediterranean and EU member states to participate in the first Euro-Mediterranean Academy for young Journalists in Amman from May 4th 2008 to May 15th 2008. The Euro-Mediterranean Academy for young Journalists aims at raising the knowledge of young journalists about the importance of a responsible and critical international.