Sixty Four: The maximum number of strokes in any Chinese character
Sixty Four: The amount of crayons in the popular Crayola 64 pack
Sixty Four: In chess or checkers, the total number of black and white squares on the game board.
Sixty Four: The number of days Saudi blogger Fouad Farhan has been stuck in jail as of […]

Sixty Three: The year Augustus Octavius Caesar, the first Roman Emperor, was born.
Sixty Three: The atomic number of europium.
Sixty Three: The number of days Saudi blogger Fouad Farhan has been stuck in jail as of today. He is yet to be charged.
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We Are All Fouads

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Sixty Two: The atomic number of samarium
Sixty Two: Age of David Ben-Gurion upon becoming Israel’s 1st Prime Minister
Sixty Two: The number of days Saudi blogger Fouad Farhan has been stuck in jail as of today. He is yet to be charged.
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We Are All Fouads

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A blind 70 year old lady living by her own needs our help to renovate her house after it caught fire few days ago. The house consists of one room and one bathroom. The burnt room, which had everything she needed (fridge, heater, mattresses, closet and the stove), all got burnt. We need to fix […]

Sixty One: Age of Harry Truman when he decided to drop the atomic bomb in 1945.
Sixty One: The year (B.C.) Julius Caesar took command in Spain.
Sixty One: The number of days Saudi blogger Fouad Farhan has been stuck in jail as of today. He is yet to be charged.
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We Are All Fouads

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Fifty: the number of years in a jubilee period.
Fifty: the number of chapters in the book of Genesis
Fifty: the number of days Saudi blogger Fouad Farhan has been stuck in jail as of today.

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The February issue for Jordan Business, which should hit newsstands in a few days, is going to feature a pretty unique cover story about corporate social responsibility. At the heart of the story is a colorful little building in Jabal il-Nathif called the Ruwwad center and it is home to a large number of activities […]

If you might recall, the Action Committee visited a family in the Baqaa camp back in early November, after their home had caught fire. At the time, they had lost so much and thanks to the contributions of many people who were made aware of the story through the Facebook group and the Black Iris, […]

Dear, Jordanian Bloggers
I am currently putting together a timely round up for Global Voices on the Gaza situation and the reaction of the Jordanian blogosphere. Unfortunately, I only have about 8 links so far, with only 6 bloggers having made some sort of comment on their blog about Gaza. Please bear in mind, this is […]

Forty: the age of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) when he first received the relevation delivered by Gabriel.
Forty: the number of days and nights for which rain fell during Noah’s flood.
Forty: the number of thieves in Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.
Forty: the number of years the Israelites spent wandering in the desert.
Forty: the number of […]

I wanted to mention something about the move to have a day of silence to protest the jailing of Fouad. Let me admit that I had originally wrote a lengthy post on how we should not silence ourselves and instead speak up. But then it occurred to me that this was more of a symbolic […]

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The Guardian has run an interesting photo story of “Guerrilla Artist” Banksy’s latest graffiti work on Israel’s illegal wall that winds through the West Bank. Banksy left his mark on the wall back in 2005 and has come back with other graffiti artists, in order to promote some tourist action in Bethlehem during the Christmas […]

It will be kind of interesting (at least for me) to see if the average citizen has the ability to play a role in holding other members of society and even governments accountable for their actions. Especially in the absence of any efficient and independent mechanism for political accountability in Jordan. Consider it another 7iber […]

A few weeks after the Ramadan visit to the Baqaa (Bag3a) Palestinian refugee camp, the Action Committee returned to help out a family in need. The father is of Syrian decent and operates a ka3k trolley, which essentially means he walks around all day making cheap sandwiches. His wife is Jordanian and is deaf. Together […]

A house in the Baq3a refugee camp was burnt down on October 28th. The father works on a ka3k trolley and earns 3-4 JD’s a day. Meanwhile, his wife is deaf and has 9 children, 2 of whom are twin toddlers. The Action Committee is trying to collect necessary items for them, such as mattresses, […]