Jordanian Citizenship Revoked: The Human Toll Of Politics

Words By: Mohanned
“Jordan is playing politics with the basic rights of thousands of its citizens, Officials are denying entire families the ability to lead normal lives with the sense of security that most citizens of a country take for granted.”
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Those people are human. Politicians sometimes tend to forget that and speak of them as mere numbers. They view people …

“نحوبيئة مدرسية آمنة”

بقلم منال قدورة
مديرة مدرسة الشفاء الثانوية للبنات

إن العملية التربوية التعليمية قائمة على أساس ثابت المنطلق من كتاب الله عز وجل واللذي أساس عماده التربية السليمة الصالحة المبنية على الإقناع والترغيب والترهيب. فالتربية والتعليم  منبثقة من تعاليم دينية لا بد أن توفر الأمان والإطمئنان للطلبة. فرب العزة خلق الثواب والعقاب, وخلق الجنة والنار, وجعل للملتزم الجنة وللمذنب النار ورغب ورهب وأبعد …

To Whom It May Concern

A letter inspired by His Majesty’s interview with Fareed Zakaria at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
To whom it may concern,
In Jordan, during the last ten years, there has been a pattern of governing. Sadly this pattern, I think, has become so ingrained in the system that it can no longer be seen or identified; it has become a part …

Cool is so 90s! Exotica is now!

By Khaled Sedki of Interruptions
Previously published on Interruptions Blog
It is now official! Arabs are exotic, again! But while Edward Said tried to explain the first Orientalist hype as a distribution of geopolitical awareness on the grounds of Western domination over the Orient; this new ‘exotic’ craze is really all about falafel!
Falafel and Shirwal are exotic!
As the world is stripped out …