Photo Courtesy of ForeignMinistry In what was perhaps a first in the Middle East, Jordan’s Foreign Minister, Nasser Judeh, took live questions on Twitter last night, using the hashtag #QFMJO (Questions for Foreign Minister of Jordan). Considered one of the first Jordanian officials to join the popular microblogging site, Judeh has frequently engaged fellow Jordanian [...]

شو قصتك؟ قبل ثلاث سنوات، في الخامس والعشرين من أيار 2007، أطلقنا موقع حبر دوت كوم. أردناه أن يكوم منصة للإعلام المواطني وأن يوفر مساحة للناس ليحكوا قصصهم ويتفاعلوا في مناقشات حول القضايا التي تهمهم والتي قد تغيب عن الإعلام السائد. خلال هذه السنوات الثلاثة كبر الموقع ونما بفضل المجتمع الرائع الذي يدعمه باستمرار، يشارك [...]

By Farah Al Mufleh If I were to say I’m going to Afghanistan in search of Bin Laden, I wouldn’t get the same high pitched gasp I usually do when I’m discovered as a non-Facebook user.  The conversation normally begins like this: “I couldn’t find you on Facebook, how do you spell your name?” At [...]

Written By Ramsey Tesdell Humans, by their very nature are social beings. From tribes, to families, to business; we interact with tens of people, possibly hundreds, each day. Throughout history human interactions were restricted to a strictly physical encounter; as technology has developed our interactions aren’t limited within a physical proximity, and now the internet [...]

Written by Iraatus. So, the quasi-confirmed the Parliamentary elections are to be held in the fourth quarter of this year (2010). Since the nomination date hasn’t been set yet, there is a chance for us, Jordanian Youth, to do something about the cycle of incompetence that has been: the parliament. In countries around the world, the legislative [...]

Video by: 7iber Music by: Sign of Thyme Words by: Naseem Tarawnah It began almost sporadically. Blogger Ahmad Humeid simply decided on the spur-of-the-moment that he didn’t want to celebrate the dawning of the new decade from his living room sofa, and instead, decided to do something a bit different. The idea? Getting together on [...]

Where Technology, Media and Culture Meet: everybody gets riled up about Orange’s terrible Internet service, but one magazine wonders if your online life is really something you should even miss. Words by Ramsey Tesdell, Laith Abou-Ragheb and Nicholas Seeley. Content by JO Magazine. Powered by 7iber. Twitter Takes Amman by Festival With the recent news [...]