رصد حبر يستغرب محمد من الشعب الأردني المعروف بالجدية و عدم القدرة على الضحك بالرغم من “جميع أنواع التسلية و الإضحاك التي توفرها أوضاع البلد.” من هذه المفارقات التي لا تحدث في أماكن غير الأردن  ”أن تقرأ مثلا كلمات مثل “معارضة” في الاردن، فهذه وحدها نكتة”، أو أن تسمع تفسير “زعماء” المعارضة لظاهرة انحباس المطر [...]

Written by Nadine Toukan. In an effort to place women’s issues on the government agenda and confidently claim it, the recent cabinet change includes a tag to the Ministry of Social Development, evolving it to Social Development & Women’s Affairs. A banner devoid of dignity. No evolution there. A sorry regression. Feeds into the problem. [...]

رصد حبر: “واحدة من تلك الأوقات التي ترسل فيها الحياة نداءا للنظر من حولنا، و الأهم، النظر في داخلنا لنكون أكثر تسامحا، و طيبة و نكثر من الأعمال الحسنة…تجبرنا لنتنبه الى التفاصيل الجميلة و القبيحة و كل ما بينهما”. هكذا تصف جانسيت ما يولده رمضان فيها من مشاعر. “انه الوقت الذي يحتاج فيه الناس ان [...]

By Lahib Bani Sakher What started as a peaceful day turned out to be one of the most important days of my life, or at last, our lives.  By ‘we’ I mean female Bedouin Jordanians. Yes, if you are a Jordanian and have never came across one of us, then you are not alone, since [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Written by LS. From my previous work experiences as a case worker, social work (SW) practices became embedded in my insight as a Jordanian-Palestinian: I came to believe that nothing is more sacred than protection from gender based violence (GBV) and sexual violence (SV). SV is “any sexual act or attempt to obtain a sexual [...]

Written by Hend Fayez Abuenein Amid the growing debate about narrowing the gap between genders and how we’ve climbed up the scale of narrowing gender-discriminating practices, a number of questions emerge about gender related legislation in Jordan. Being members of the Organization of Islamic Conference, we draw our definitions of human rights, from Islamic Shari’a [...]