By Shaden on Nov 9, 2008 in Arts & Culture, Featured, Interviews | 4 Comments
“كيف اسيء للاسلام واسمي : إسلام؟!”
“أنا شاعر أحب الحياة”
“تلقيت مكلمات هاتفية وهناك من هددني بالقتل”
“اقرأوا لغة الشعر بلغة الشعر ولغة القرأن بلغة القرأن”
“أنا لم أقصد الإساءة لأي دين سماوي”
“الشعر يحتمل الأخيلة والإيماء والترميز والمجاز”
(إسلام سمحان، صورها صلاح ملكاوي)
بدا الشاعر الأردني اسلام سمحان (27 عاما) ساخراً عندما قلت له ممازحاً : لقد أصبحت الأشهر [...]
By Shaden on Oct 4, 2008 in Arts & Culture, Interviews | 3 Comments
Share’a preparing for K.O 2008 at Prince Haya Cultural Center
Written by: Shaden Abdul-Rahman
Breakdance, a movement started in the west more than 20 years ago has been re-discovered by Jordanian youth nearly eight years ago. The whole hip-hop scene has only recently flourished and with that, the b-boying has finally come out of hiding.
You can see [...]
By Naseem Tarawnah on Sep 28, 2008 in Interviews | 39 Comments
Film By: Ibrahim Oweis
In the past ten days, Median al-Jazera’s opinion piece on 7iber regarding the closure of his iconic Amman spot, Books@Cafe, has sparked a great deal of controversy and even a religious debate. It even got the more observant people in the mainstream media to pay attention to the subject, both locally [...]
By ramsey on Aug 1, 2008 in Arab World, Discover Jordan, Featured, Features, Interviews | 8 Comments
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, [...]
By admin on Dec 5, 2007 in Arts & Culture, Dailies, Discover Jordan, Interviews | 9 Comments
7iber.com sat down with, Aziz Maraka, the father of ‘razz’ to get the inside scoop on the motivation and inspiration of this rising musician.
7iber: Tell us a little about yourself, where you grew and where you hail from.
Maraka: I was born in Tunisia in 1983, lived there for 10 years, then had to move [...]
By admin on Sep 19, 2007 in Featured, Features, Interviews | 13 Comments
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 [...]
By Naseem Tarawnah on Sep 8, 2007 in Featured, Features, Interviews, Media | 46 Comments
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 [...]