By: Shalabieh Yesterday I was in the elevator about to leave the office, I pressed GF to go down but instead it went up. It opened on the 5th floor and there a man was waiting. He was a construction worker and it was clear he thought that because of our varying class difference he [...]

Mexico prepare themselves for the World Cup opener against South Africa at Soccer City in Johannesburg. Photograph: Themba Hadebe/AP Written by Ramsey Tesdell It’s been a year coming. One year ago I sat in front of my glowing LCD laptop, choose cities, matches, and dates indiscriminately. We didn’t even know the teams yet, but I [...]

تصوير وكلمات: سماح عرفات Photos and words by: Samah Arafat

عبد الهادي الشناق* عيناها حائرتان… تحسب الدمع سيتدفق منهن، بالفعل ما أجملها؛ وتوج هذا الجمال العربي بتلك الأعين . سألتها عن إسمها ؟ شهقت، ثم قالت : ” مها عمو ” هنا سالت الدمعة على خدي، ولم أعرف لحظتها ما ألم بي ؟ وماذا سأفعل ؟ إنها تبكي بخفاء، فربما لم تحصل على ما تريد [...]

Marshall Ganz on People, Leadership and change Interviewed by Ruba Asi Introduction Advisor to president Obama’s campaign on community organizing and leadership development, and professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, Marshall Ganz is an architect of community whose work aims to develop leadership to enable communities to use their resources to achieve their purposes. Ganz [...]

رصد: حبر لم يتبع المدونون الأردنيون خطوات الحكومات العربية في تأجيل التعليق على مجزرة أسطول الحرية المبحر لكسر الحصار في غزة. ففي حين كانت “غزة فلوتيلا” من أكثر المواضيع التي تحدث بها مستخدموا موقع تويتر عالميا، صرخت العديد من المدونات الأردنية بمشاعر الغضب و الشعور باليأس حيال مواقف القيادات العربية و العالمية. فيشعر أسامة ” [...]

What if cities are made of invisible threads of narrative woven from the stories of its splendid array of characters playing out their lives on its grand of stage? Words and Photography by Eman Haram I met Hussein Yousef Khalil in spring of 2009, during one of my photography strolls in the walkable neighborhoods of [...]

Written by Farida Farouk In my religion and spiritual search, I happened to come across literature for authors, especially women who have influenced my interpretation and understanding of Islam. For a long time, I refused to read anything written by Muslim men since they had dominated the conversation for far too long. But through the [...]

The Dark Side of the Spoon is a comic strip created, written and penciled by Mike V. Derderian, and inked and colored by Waleed Qutteineh. The first official episode appeared in U Men’s August 2009 issue—Thank you Shirene. It follows the lives of Mako, a Mako shark with amphibian abilities and the appetite of—duh—a shark, [...]

Photography and captions by Samah Arafat and Samar Sarhan.