Written by MARY ANN ZEHR with contributions from YASMINE MOUSA AMMAN – Omar Al-Hmoud gets frustrated when Iraqi parents tell him they haven’t enrolled their children in Jordanian schools because they soon expect to be resettled in another country. The deputy country director for Mercy Corps, an international nonprofit organization that provides aid to displaced [...]

Written By Ahmad Humeid from 360east.com FULL DISCLOSURE: I am a partner in TootCorp, creator of ikbis.com. Before we start talking about the “failure” of Arab web 2.0, let us first admit that the Arab world is still stuck in web 0.5 and has not even reached web 1.0. By global standards, web 1.0 encompasses [...]

From Kabobfest. Written by Emily In a new Jordan Times article, Hani Hazaimeh reports again that According to DHAA officials, the complaints included ill-treatment by employers and being overworked, said Faouri, who believes the workers’ reasons for wanting to leave their posts were homesickness and cultural differences between Jordan and the Philippines. The Jordan Times [...]

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 [...]

Al-Syjjyl is a new Jordanians Arabic-language weekly newspaper. In its first issue, on Thursday 8th of November, 7iber was mentioned. Click image to enlarge and read in Arabic. Translated text: A group of Dot Com youth is seeking to overcome the invisible censorship barriers by publishing articles covering local news on 7iber.com, a website that [...]

Written By: Naseem Tarawnah Parliamentary elections are officially up and running now. The first two days of candidate registration saw 916 names and as Lina points out, 15.8% of which are women. That’s a pretty decent percentage in my case, considering that the majority of that number are from fairly conservative cities like Irbid and [...]

By: Lina Ejeilat  ATV Managing Director Mohannad Al-Khatib resigned from his position yesterday, and Ammon News reported that the channel’s owner and Chairman Mohammad Alayyan sold his shares to “Wonders Investment Company”, which is owned by Jordanians Mohammad Khaled Asfour and Mohammad Saleh Abdel-Ati. 7iber.com got a copy of Al-Khatib’s letter to ATV employees explaining [...]

Written by Pheras Hilal Since the war on Iraq and the execution of Saddam Hussein, Iraqis’ conditions have been plummeting. Not only in Iraq itself, as its scorched earth everyday receives more and more martyrs, but also across the region, wherever Iraqis have crawled to seek refuge of the chaos swarming Iraq. I came across [...]

On May 16th, I noticed the heavy campus security as soon as I arrived at the University of Jordan at 8:00 AM. Although the security is always there, they seemed a little more ruffled than usual. Written by Roba Al-Assi I leave campus and come back 2 hours later, and the guy who collects money [...]