Written By: Naseem Tarawnah
What will the Arab world look like in 2025? Over a hundred people from across the Arab world were in Dubai for a few days to discuss life in the year 2025. It’s part of an initiative created by the British Council and Young Arab Leaders, where delegations have come together to [...]

Iraqi students congregate outside the Shmeissani Al-Qharbi School in Amman, Jordan. Many Iraqi war refugees have missed years of school, but despite new opportunities to be back in class, they get little help catching up.—Christopher Powers/Education Week
War, displacement, and lack of money have prevented Iraqi children from going to school for lengthy stretches of time. [...]

Written by Sam Bollier
What, then, do blogs accomplish in Jordan? Although they have a small readership and play virtually no role in Jordanian politics, it would be a mistake to assume that blogs are irrelevant. The most salient effect of blogging in Jordan is the ability of bloggers to, as Tarawnah put it, “vocalize [...]

No Longer a Novelty: Blogging and Politics in Jordan

Written by Sam Bollier
[Editor's note: This article is the first in a two part series on blogging and politics in Jordan and the wider Arab World. The series is a condensed version that can be viewed in its entirety at: http://saminamman.blogspot.com ]
How much influence do Jordanian blogs [...]

Written by Wendy Merdian
Not the Austrian Alps, but the seven hills of Amman are echoing with the sound of music, thanks to the addition of the National Conservatory of Music (NCM) to Jordan’s cultural repertoire.
Nestled in the valley of Ras Al Ein overlooking the heart of old Amman, the new facilities of the Conservatory is [...]

Written By: Naseem Tarawnah

A few weeks after the Ramadan visit to the Baqaa (Bag3a) Palestinian refugee camp, the Action Committee returned to help out a family in need. The father is of Syrian decent and operates a ka3k trolley, which essentially means he walks around all day making cheap sandwiches. His wife is Jordanian and [...]

Interview by Omar Z of Fann 3arabi

Whether it’s an innocent Chihuahua staring at you, three generic red bodies with white face masks, a cat who’s promoting a coke can or a rather balloon-like girl asking to switch places it’s all in the new store of Blouzaat. You’re probably wondering that none of these subjects might [...]

Written By: Naseem Tarawnah
The Action Committee is a part of the Family International organization, and focuses a great deal of its efforts on the kids by taking them out on outings or to lunch. Very much a “Big Brother” or “Big Sister” attitude. The committee has only been around for about 3 months so visiting [...]

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 [...]

On July 31st, 2007, after nearly two and a half years of preparations, ATV’s management held a press conference to announce its long-awaited official launch on the next day. During the press conference, the transmission on Nile Sat was suddenly halted by the Audio Visual Commission (AVC), who sent ATV an official letter that afternoon [...]

The Keffiyah has progressed from a piece of clothing used to protect from heat and cold, wind and sand, to a political statement. Now, the keffiyah is becoming a tourist must have and a fashion statement. The Arab-American blog, KABOBfest, contributed this time line of the keffiyah’s history.
Editor’s note: We’ve chosen to spell keffiyah [...]