Written By: Al-Dinawari Recently, the small northern town of Al-Wahadneh made the local news as it’s set to become the Kingdom’s first “model eco-village”. Both the Jordanian Hashemite Fund for Human Development (JOHUD) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) have signed an MOU to turn Al-Wahadneh in to an eco-village, where it [...]

Written By Matthew Teller “I’ve got it! Pomegranate!” Omar Zumot, Jordanian entrepreneur and winemaker, beams across the table, stopping me in mid-sentence. Pomegranate? I take a second to think, then let another sip of the dark, ruby-red wine swirl around my mouth. He’s right. I close my eyes and allow tastebuds to talk to brain [...]

Written by Reem Al-Masri This month of March was a celebratory month for women around the world. Our press also gave Jordanian women a dozen reasons to celebrate as on Women International Day (WID), it designated exclusive coverage focusing on the achievements of Jordanian women in the work place, human rights and political decision making. [...]

تصوير رمزي اللداوي نسيم طراونة بالرغم انني أقدر أن مفهوم ساعةالأرض قد وصل أخيرا إلى عمان، فأنا أشعر بخيبة أمل عارمة من النتائج. كان من المفترض بالعديد من المواقع ان تطفئ الأنوار ما بين الساعة 8:30 و 9:30 ليلة السبت. لكن ما حدث فعليا كان مخيبا للأمل، و خاصةانه تم التنبؤ بأن الفعالية ستكون بهذه [...]

Picture: The commander of NATO’s Standing NRF Mine Countermeasure Group 2 (SNMCMG2), Captain Paolo Polidoro, Italian Navy (left), and Lieutenant Colonel Kafaween Bassam, Jordan Navy (right), plan the details of a training activity that was conducted in the Red Sea on 21 March 2005. Courtesy of NATO JFC.   تم أخذ هذا المقال عن الصحفي [...]

Written by L. S. Photos by L. S., Winkie Williams, and Ramsey Tesdell This spring, I traveled with my friends on the Hijazi (Hidjaz in Turkish) Railway, starting in Amman and heading towards Zarqa. We started near Amman Al- Mahta Balad and end up to the Zarqa highway. After a short taxi ride to the [...]

 حبر- قامت منظمة الحق، وهي منظمة فلسطينية مستقلة غير حكومية، بإتخاذ اجراءات قانونية ضد كلاً من وزير العلاقات الخارجية والكومنويلث ديفيد ميليباند(David Milliband)، ووزير الدفاع جون هيتون(John Hutton)، ووزير الصناعة والتجارة بيتر ماندلسن(Peter Mandelson) (حالياً وزير المؤسسات التجارية والإصلاح التنظيمي  في حدث يعتبر تاريخي. و ذلك لأنهم لن يغيروا موقفهم من علاقة المملكة المتحدة مع [...]

Written by Farah Nimri For many aspiring high school graduates, the choice of a major can be a hectic, frustrating process. As if graduating with a good average that will get you into a decent university isn’t hard enough, the burden of having to decide what you will be doing for the rest of your [...]

Cities change every hour. Every hour of the day is represented in one video of exactly sixty seconds. All together it is a portrait of a city in 24 minutes made by different people. 24 individuals make one collective artwork. The City One Minutes Amman project was such a nice filmmaking experience, not to forget [...]

7iber is working with JumpStart to work with a group of young people with blogs, social media, and basic computer literacy. The program is a five-week program based in the Red Cross Hospital in Ashrafiya. Our goal is to bring Iraqis, Palestinians, and Jordanians together to build a community blog in order to share their [...]