As many already know, today is World Against Cyber Censorship Day. While I’ve usually used this day as an opportunity to highlight the importance of keeping a free Internet in a country like Jordan

Imagine leaving your homeland at 17 to start college education in a faraway place. Away from family, friends and everything you knew and used to. The homeland was Jordan, where I was born. The faraway

When the sun comes up tomorrow, we, the people of Jordan, will wake up to a new Jordan. The Jordan we've been writing letters to the King about. The Jordan we've been hashtagging reform over. The

It is one month since my 28th birthday and I am having an existential crisis. If someone told me about this impending crisis a few months ago, I would have guessed it had something to do with whether

I think, for the most part, the non-Arab world may never quite understand the connection Arabs have to Egypt. While the orientalist tendency has always been to lump everyone in this region in to one

February 6, 2011 This is an interesting piece of news today that is both strange and unverified so you’ll have to take it at the normal face value of news stories in the Kingdom. Jordan’s largest e

There is going to be a great deal of political analysis regarding HM King Abdullah’s appointmentof Marouf Al Bakhit as the new Prime Minister of Jordan and the subsequent and relatively expected exit

Reliable eye witnesses in Cairo confirm that Egyptian blogger and activist SandMonkey was arrested today [February 3, 2011] in Tahrir Square while he was taking medical supplies to protesters. This is

In the past few days, we have all been closely following the political turmoil in Egypt after the revolution in Tunisia and thinking about the consequences on Jordan. In a step that is consistent with

AMMAN - Standing in the rain, holding their umbrellas, banners and a guitar, a group of Jordanians on Tuesday cheered for the people of Egypt, Tunisia and the Arab world. In a peaceful symbolic