Now that there’s an Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire in place this week, brokered with the help of Egypt, it’s critical that the two sides not stop with this short-term agreement. For this cease-fire — in fact, any cease-fire — to become permanent, we need a political process to begin immediately. The

Although fellow journalists and I, suffer and complain about some restrictions imposed on freedom of the press in Jordan, the recent press freedom index announced by Reporters Without Borders on World Press Freedom Day raises some questions that need clarification. Despite the announcement that

“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers”. Laid down in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 75 years ago