So. Once again. Girl gets raped. Brother shoots her 12 times in the name of family honor. Gets sentenced to 15 years. Sentence reduced to 7 and a half. Rinse. Repeat. Then again, Syria doesn’t have it any better lately. Penal code to be revised by Jordanian parliament. Maybe there’s hope this time around? Maybe. [...]

Is it just me or is there a lot going on this summer? Amman Summer Festival, Amman Open Spaces Festival, the Jordan Festival, the International Fun Festival, the Franco Arab Film Festival, God-knows-what-festival. There seems to be so many of these festivals all running at the same time this year that I am really confused. [...]

AP Photo – An Uighur woman protest before a group of paramilitary police when journalists visited the area in Urumqi, capital of China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Tuesday, July 7 , 2009. Ethnic Uighurs scuffled with armed police Tuesday in a fresh protest in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang, where at least 156 people [...]

Let me break down this story to see if I have it right (if anything, for my own sanity). A 31-year old, headscarf-wearing Egyptian Muslim woman, Marwa Al-Sherbini, who was about four months pregnant, takes her German neighbor to court for calling her a “terrorist”. Now, in the courtroom, the neighbor, Alex W., stabs her [...]

Yesterday, around 300 protesters outside the Ministry Of Agriculture were protesting the import of Israeli goods and found themselves beaten by Gendarmerie Forces. Their crime was that they didn’t have permission to protest. How did the government react to the protesters being beaten? By publically declaring (with a straight face) that the protesters, essentially, didn’t [...]

It seems that Parliament has not made many friends since the start of this extraordinary session. First, their dispute with the media, originating from a proposed 5% tax on media revenue (dubbed the culture tax) escalated to the point of a local media strike and refusal to report on parliamentarian news. That conflict seems to [...]

AP PHOTO – Street vendors sell juice to motorists on the Amman-Zarqa highway in Jordan on July 1, 2009 as temperatures rose to 38 degrees Celsius, resulting from hot and dry air mass, which originated from the Arabian Peninsula.

Last month, 7iber launched an initiative to collect citizen-generated photographs that capture Jordan from behind their lens. Throughout June we received an endless amount of pictures with the objective of picking the best 10 and printing them as postcards to be sold in the marketplace, with any profits going towards future community projects. Then we [...]