Cardboard for Sale
Written and Photos By: Saleem Ayoub Quna
This is a picture of a cheap push-cart standing in the middle of the square in front of Al-Husseini Grand Mosque. The time is noon of the last Friday of Ramadan, the month of Fasting and piety which has left us few days ago.
When I approached the [...]

Written By: Ola Eliwat
“She was in the car with him when her brother caught her in the act.”
“I’m not assuming anything, but it’s obvious there’s something wrong about her.”
“She had it coming, if you ask me! I always sensed she was hiding something.”
Many times we hear things like this, from neighbors, friends, relatives or even [...]

Human Rights Watch condemns the U.S. ally, saying prisoners are tortured and abusers go punished.

Written By: Raed Rafei
7iber - For three days, he was severely beaten by prison guards. Then, early one morning in May, Firas Zaidan was found dead in his solitary-confinement cell in Jordan, one of the United States’ staunchest allies in the [...]

American Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama speaking in Amman, Jordan via WSJ.
Written By: Rana F. Sweis
7iberDotCom — On a bustling street in downtown Amman, Farah Al Sayyad, 24, stares at a magazine showing American democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama walking up a flight of stairs while gazing at the sky.
“For me it’s not about if [...]

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Citizens participate in a community forum
Written By: Ramsey Tesdell
A community forum in Salt was held recently to determine the needs and wants of the community in Salt. The Amman Institute, a spin off of the Amman municipality, organized the event after the Salt municipality solicited their help in developing a master plan for Salt. The [...]

Editing of the film
Written By: Susan Miller-Coulter
Cast of characters:  Fourteen young ladies, two mini-video cameras, two teachers, a film-maker, and a volunteer climbed into a commuter bus on a blazingly hot morning.
Checklist: Release forms for interviewing “people on the street,” spare tapes for the mini-cams, permission from police for filming in public locations, and water; [...]

Pigeons in the Sky

7iberDotCom went to the streets of Jabal Amman to see what the beat on the street is regarding the Olympics. Street Beat is a 7iber’s new weekly initiative to see what the street is saying.
Rakan, 26
“I would like to watch the Olympics, but I don’t have the time. No, I work. I don’t have [...]

Destroyed Steps in Jabal Amman
JABAL AMMAN - A new blacktop road has been installed on Mango Street in Jabal Amman, the same street that houses Books@ Cafe and great views of East Amman. While most of the residents are pleased about the new road, some wonder why the new road had to come at the [...]

Written By: Naseem Tarawnah
As I write this, I am overcome with a surge of sadness that has not resonated in my heart for quite a long time. For as I write this, the great Arab poet, Mahmoud Darwish, one of my personal heroes, is being laid to rest in Ramallah; mind you, not his village [...]

By Ramsey G. Tesdell and Mariam A. Adas
AMMAN - “You have to be prepared,” Mostafa Salameh said one recent evening in Amman as the sun set. Years of running, swimming, and mental and physical preparation to climb to the highest point on the Earth, not to mention a heart rate of 40 beats per minute, [...]

Written By Dean Peters
The Jordan Times is reporting that Fawwaz Khreisha of the Department of Antiquities, Samer Majali of Royal Jordanian and others have called into question the latest Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report (TTCR ) publish by the World Economic Forum (WEF); a document that asserts Jordan’s global rank among 130 countries dropped seven [...]