Watching this video by Aramram, which came out after the March 25th event, I thought it was interesting to see HM King Abdullah’s words sitting in contrast to those of stick-wielding protesters who, let’s just say, came to Friday’s protests with a special kind of zeal. What these youth say is fairly reflective of how [...]

I was just informed a little over an hour ago that my friend and peer, Suleiman Al Khalidi, has been captured by Syrian security today. The rhetoric coming out of the Syrian government these past two days regarding foreign media is incredibly frightening, and Suleiman has been one of the few voices documenting the events [...]

After pouring my heart in to what was likely the longest post I’ve ever written, I cannot help but follow up the events of March 25th with my take on its aftermath. Now that a few days have passed, one is able to get a better view of the emerging landscape, especially with the veil [...]

Disclaimer: the following post is long. I don’t apologize for its length. However, those wishing to comment on it should at least show me and others the respect of actually reading it all before doing so. The first part is my personal eye-witness account of the events that transpired on March 25th at the Interior [...]

To those interested in all the online debates and discussions around #ReformJO – 7iber’s third #HashtagDebates will take place at Makan in Jabal Lweibdeh on Wednesday 23rd at 7pm, and will center around the constitutional monarchy issue. It is interesting that after all these years this issue is getting some critical play in public discourse, [...]

Jordan has always seemed to be a country taking one step forward and two steps back. For every “good” thing that happens, there seems to always be a slew of negatives lurking around the corner, and things seem to be no different with the recent announcement of a national dialog committee. The 52-member “task force” [...]

Just a quick announcement for those interested in honoring the victims of the Japanese earthquake that has taken so many innocent lives. Based on conversations on Twitter (#JapanVigil) and a call I made to the Japanese Embassy, some of us have decided to simply leave flowers at the Japanese Embassy in Amman tonight starting at [...]

As many already know, today is World Against Cyber Censorship Day. While I’ve usually used this day as an opportunity to highlight the importance of keeping a free Internet in a country like Jordan, this year I feel like that call has catapulted to the forefront but for entirely different reasons. Last year, we saw [...]