[ December 28, 2008 6:30 pm to January 28, 2009 6:30 pm. ] Location: Makan - Jabal Lwaibdeh
City/Town: Amman - Jordan

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الافتتاح اليوم في مكان في الساعة 6:30 مساءً

Manual Animal Workshop Exhibition will respond to the Israeli massacres in Gaza. Opening today at Makan at 6:30

مكان، بلوزات، تيبسيم
Makan, Blouzaat, Typism

The elections are over, (most of) the votes have been counted, the winners announced, and the morning papers are aflutter with post-election coverage. Here’s a rundown of some of yesterday’s highlights as relayed by the local media and Jordanian bloggers:
Despite the gloomy and rainy weather, voter turnout as of today, stood at around 55%, representing [...]

Written By: Maha
Note: The following is based on a true story which took place a few days ago. The author’s mother is a parliamentary candidate.
Once upon a time a candidate was at a dead relatives’ house packed with people paying their condolences to the family. She got the following call from a private number:
-Aloo?
-Marhaba inti [...]

In accordance with the upcoming Parliamentary elections and in the context of last summer’s Municipal elections and the corruption charges which plagued them, 7iber dot com has formed an Election Watchdog. The Jordanian government has allowed for several organizations to monitor the elections however the extent of their participation and/or the potential restrictions they might [...]

Written By: Naseem Tarawnah
Parliamentary elections are officially up and running now. The first two days of candidate registration saw 916 names and as Lina points out, 15.8% of which are women. That’s a pretty decent percentage in my case, considering that the majority of that number are from fairly conservative cities like Irbid and Kerak. [...]