Today we launched our very first workshop; the first of (hopefully) many in the days, months and years to come. The idea is not to dictate or “teach” or “train” anyone in citizen media, but rather to achieve a few objectives. The first is to briefly introduce people to blogs, especially young Jordanians that may [...]

As promised earlier today, this is a video of the INJAZ booth in the workspace session, with Soraya Salti and an Egyptian student from the 2nd Company of the Year Competition that took place in Oman earlier this month. INJAZ is probably one of the more impressive business models presented in the workspace today, however, [...]

There is perhaps nothing as invigorating for me personally than seeing Fadi Ghandour talk about corporate social responsibility, and government responsibilities. Many of the words are ones he’s consistently repeated but each time they feel injected with a new sense of passion than before. CSR is not simply about companies “doing good” or even attempting [...]

Reviewing Bush’s speech from earlier on, I have to say, it was probably one of the most hypocritical speeches I’ve heard in a while. He switched between talking about establishing a Palestinian state before the end of his term, something which one participant later discredited as fantasy in the following session, and then talked about [...]

The initial speeches by Hosni Mubarak, King Abdullah and George Bush, have just ended and everyone is breaking. I honestly fell asleep several times during Mubarak’s speech simply because he droned on about subjects I felt were irrelevant to the regional issues. King Abdullah’s speech was similar to that of last year’s “Year of Opportunity” [...]

Photo: Mahmoud al Massad taking questions at a showing of his film Recycle. PARK CITY, UTAH – Alright folks, Ramsey here. I’ve made the trip to Park City, Utah for the Sundance Film Festival. In the coming days, I’ll be posting reviews of the two Jordanian Films – Recycle and Captain Abu Raed, pictures, and [...]

The World Economic Forum has come to an end and it has been quite the extraordinary experience for me personally, specifically with being able to blog live via 7iber. I ran around asking a series of various questions to a variety of powerful people these past three days, the essential question being: “what does this [...]

A session on multiculturalism has just ended and HM Queen Rania was the guest of honor. It was the first time seeing the Queen speak live and I was taken aback by how eloquent she is. It was surprising to say the least and I think perhaps I had preconceived notions that she was more [...]

Unfortunately I arrived a little late to the Arab-Israeli session that included the likes of Saeb Erekat, Amr Mousa, Al Khatib and Shimon Peres amongst European and American representatives. I entered during an exchange between Peres and Erekat who were of course on opposite sides. Eventually however, they arrived at a common point where Peres [...]

So is the Arab world betraying its youth? A lot was said during the Al Arabyieh debate here at the WEF, in an attempt to discuss the issues that have adversely affected our youth. The center of it revolved around why young Arabs are trying to leave their countries. Unemployment seems to top the list [...]