The kind of slogan one might here in “V For Vendetta” or perhaps Orwell’s “1984″. But what is likely to be the most amazing part about the Rifai government’s recent win of a confidence vote in Parliament – a vote that has apparently set some sort of record (which is akin to a high score [...]

It may go without saying, that in the past few weeks, since the one tragic football managed to reignite tensions between two major Jordanian camps – that things have been just a bit tense when it comes to the identity issue. To make matters worse, nearly every move the state has made has not helped [...]

REUTERS: An Iraqi Christian girl attends a Christmas mass at Chaldean Catholic church in Amman December 22, 2010. Thousands of Iraqi Christians fled to neighboring Jordan following a spate of bombings that targeted churches in Iraqi cities in the past few years. I thought this was a great capture. Maybe because it feels like the [...]

If the title of this piece sounds eerily familiar to the frequent reader, that’s because it is. Last June, a poll conducted by the Center for Strategic Studies revealed that: “while 72% of Jordanians believe that the November 9th parliamentary elections will be conducted fairly, even though 66% of respondents didn’t even know there was [...]

For those interested, 7iber and AmmanNet have joined forces to translate all the Wikileaks Cables related to Jordan, in to Arabic. It is an attempt to release this valuable information, which has obviously garnered global attention recently, unto the Jordanian public and audience at large. The translations focus on cables that are either about Jordan [...]

An interesting article I read last week on a new and elite prison in Jordan… The town of Salhoub, north of the capital Amman, is now home to a ‘luxurious’ prison facility that overlooks one of the most famous pine forests now threatened with extinction. The prison, which houses 60 inmates, was built exclusively for [...]

One interesting story floating under the radar these days, past the looming shadow of a tragic football game and its impact on national identity, is ironically linked to that very topic. Or, at the very least, to the broader issue of crime and punishment in the Kingdom. On November 9th, Tahir Nassar, a 45 year [...]

A recent “religious edict”, or fatwa, issued by the Islamic Action Front has accused the government of apostasy. Naturally, this has not gone over well with the state, which issued a broad public rejection of the fatwa that evidently included a press release an editorial in the Jordan Times. A statement issued by the Islamic [...]