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 [...]

In the past few weeks we’ve seen protesters in Jordan of all sorts and kinds converging on the streets of the country, specifically Amman, every Friday. There is a growing “oppositional” voice in the country for sure, and their calls are diverse and assorted. Aside from these protests, many are enthused when it comes to [...]

I think, for the most part, the non-Arab world may never quite understand the connection Arabs have to Egypt. While the orientalist tendency has always been to lump everyone in this region in to one group, there is a failure to recognize the intricacies that weave in to the social fabric that blankets the Arab [...]

I admit, it has become increasingly difficult to read Jordan these days. Even when you live here the mood of the street shifts subtly that it is difficult to grasp on to it. The excitement over the revolution in Egypt has quieted down, but far from dead. Very far. There is no doubt that Egypt [...]

The video supposedly shows a first grader at a Jordanian public school being verbally and even physically abused by a “teacher” during a math class when he is unable to write a number on the chalkboard. He is seen begging the teacher and the person filming for protection. Chuckling can be heard in the background. [...]

It may go without saying that in the past 48 hours, a great number of Jordanians have been glued to their television screens, watching Al Jazeera detail the fall of the Tunisian regime, the assumed exile of its leader, and the rise of the youth voice in the streets of Tunis. The view from Jordan [...]

We are in a state of volatility. This seems to be the general mood on the street lately. Everyone feels it. Everyone sees it. Everyone hears or reads about it. Fights here, campus violence there, city lock-downs over there. There seems to be an endless stream of sporadic violence within the Kingdom lately, and by [...]