So. It’s been a little over six weeks since I’ve published anything, and while my instinct is to simply dive back in to recent events happening in and around the Jordanian landscape, this is one of those rare moments where I feel a need to recap my hiatus – if only to help me catch [...]

Dear Readers, our one and only 7iber has been nominated in the “Best Arabic Blog” category over the BoBs. It’s up against some steep competition this year, especially from the Egyptian side. But in this category, 7iber is the only Jordanian born-and-bred platform that has spent several years serving as a community-driven initiative seeking to [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

If this blog were a child it would be starting the first grade. Isn’t that something? As I enter the seventh year of blogging, I can’t help but reflect for a moment. Not on the past, but the present. There were times when it seemed writing about the issues that I consider to be important [...]

The Black Iris recently won an honorable mention as the best middle east blog for the seventh annual Brass Crescent award! After the past two years of this particular award being rather good to me, I am glad to simply be in the company of some great nominees in the same category this year, including [...]

Blog Action Day 2010: Water from Blog Action Day on Vimeo. It’s that time of year again. Time to start a global conversation on the blogosphere for a single day. Blog Action Day will be held on October 15th and this year the global issue is water. What more fitting a topic than that for [...]

In the past few weeks, unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably noticed the significant increase in criticism of the Rifai government. It is a government that has been around for nine months, and has probably garnered more criticism than any government I have ever seen. It is, however, an election year, and [...]