“For Ruba Saqr, even the most unconventional dreams can come true,” a recent Jordan Times article started off. The newspaper’s reporter called me the day after I sent a short announcement saying I just came back from Uzbekistan after representing Jordan at the Sixth International Music Festival of Samarqand. I performed three of my [...]

Written by Dr. Marwan Asmar*
The Jordanian government recently decided to exempt inbound tour operators from the 16% General Sales Tax and the decision was met withenthusiasm by tour operators throughout the Kingdom. The issue has beensurrounded by controversy since 2002 when the government re-imposed the salestax on inbound tour operators after previously stating the operators [...]

By: Lina Ejeilat 
ATV Managing Director Mohannad Al-Khatib resigned from his position yesterday, and Ammon News reported that the channel’s owner and Chairman Mohammad Alayyan sold his shares to “Wonders Investment Company”, which is owned by Jordanians Mohammad Khaled Asfour and Mohammad Saleh Abdel-Ati.
7iber.com got a copy of Al-Khatib’s letter to ATV employees explaining his resignation. [...]

Written by Pheras Hilal
As Akhtaboot.com, an online recruitment website continues to engulf more members in its web of professional networking, 7iber sits with the brains and brawls behind the makers of the perky tongue-in-cheek analogy, to shed light on how it all started.

In 2006, MIT-graduate Mohamad Haj Hasan and Georgetown-graduate Yousef Shamoun sat down [...]

Picture by: futurowoman

From Khalaf
Yesterday hundreds of people from the town of Mleih, south of Madaba, staged a protest against rising prices, corruption and falling standards of living. It is interesting to note that reports on this do not indicate the involvement of any political party in the organization or staging of this protest. Of course, this is [...]

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Moose: If you are hampered by the “coubles only”* rule of Amman’s fancy cafes, and if you prefer not to spend the weekly income of [...]

[ November 17, 2007; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] Goya’s Ghost — Film screening at the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts

Date: November 17
Time: 6:30pm

[ September 13, 2007 to October 11, 2007. ] Ramadan Art Festival — A collection of artworks by Jordanian and Arab artists at Lines, contemporary art gallery.

Tel: 465 5084

Until October 11.

Photos and Words By: Sabri Hakim

I’m trapped in a self activating engine that evolves and seeks decay
I’m chained in an office looking for chickpeas,
I want to wear the skin of animals, grow my beard and carry a cane
Allow my climbing of mountains be bare foot,
I have reached skies, spoken to clouds and claimed to calm [...]

It’s September. The weather is still wonderfully warm, while the cool air moves swiftly between trees that are preparing to shed their leaves. Ramadan is just around the corner and there’s a lot to talk about on the Jordanian blogosphere. However, it’s only right to start with the biggest story; the one that has dominated [...]