7iber – While protests broke out all over the Kingdom, it seems most of the attention was drawn to a very small corner in Amman – the emerging protests by the Kaluti Mosque in the Rabia district. Right after the Friday prayer, a sea of people shouting at the top of their lungs came out [...]

This post will be continually update as news, photos, and videos become available. If you’d like to submit content, email us at editor@7iber.com. Words, Pictures, and Video by Ramsey Tesdell (unless noted) 7iber (Amman) – Jordanians around the Kingdom have been responding to the devastating attacks on Gaza by Israel in a variety of different [...]

  زيد أبو عودة بعد انقطاع عن الحياة الديمقراطية لمدة تعدت الثماني سنوات في الجامعة الأردنية، توجه طلاب الجامعة يوم الخميس الموافق 18 كانون الأول 2008 الى صناديق الإقتراع لإنتخاب مجلس الطلبة المكون من 83 طالبا.  حيث ترشح ما يزيد عن 380 طالبا من كافة الكليات منهم 68 طالبة، طالبين من طلاب الدراسات العليا و طالبين اخرين غير [...]

Words & Multimedia By: Naseem Tarawnah Some of the most remarkable scenes have emerged on the streets of Amman these past 48 hours. Word that gas stations were refusing to sell their fuel supplies began to spread on Saturday and gained momentum as the work week began Sunday morning. By 5pm drive-home traffic time, some [...]

Human Rights Watch condemns the U.S. ally, saying prisoners are tortured and abusers go punished. Written By: Raed Rafei 7iber – For three days, he was severely beaten by prison guards. Then, early one morning in May, Firas Zaidan was found dead in his solitary-confinement cell in Jordan, one of the United States’ staunchest allies [...]

7iberDotCom – In a story a few weeks ago entitled, A Different Kind of Jihad, 7iber reported that the climber Mostafa Salameh successfully reached Everest on his third attempt and became the first Jordanian to climb Everest and narrowly missing out on becoming the first Arab to climb the mountain. In that article, he discussed [...]

Written By: Rana F. Sweis 7iberDotCom — On a bustling street in downtown Amman, Farah Al Sayyad, 24, stares at a magazine showing American democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama walking up a flight of stairs while gazing at the sky. “For me it’s not about if he will be good or great,” she says. “It’s [...]

Jordanians crowd the branch of a currency-trading company in Irbid. Photo Courtesy: Petra 7iber – September saw the collapse of several currency-trading offices and financial companies dealing with foreign investments, who upon postponing the distribution of their clients’ monthly earnings were seen to be preparing to declare bankruptcy. The move sparked charges from the Amman [...]

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 [...]