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Football and Violence in Jordan
![[From left to right: logos of the al-Faysali and al-Wihdat teams. Image from www.livevip.blogspot.com]](/content_images/3/sm_Football.jpg "[From left to right: logos of the al-Faysali and al-Wihdat teams. Image from www.livevip.blogspot.com]")
On Friday December 10, 2010, Jordanian and international media reported on “clashes” after a football match between two teams that make up the biggest rivalry in the Jordanian Football Association (JFA): al-Faysali and al-Wihdat, both of which serve as the main recruiting pools for Jordan’s national team. Popular support for each of the teams is at least as indicative of political allegiances as it is of football appreciation. The al-Faysali team has popularly come to ...
Keep Reading »Liberal Elite Discourse and the "Realities" of Jordan
For over a decade now, a diverse array of English-language publications have emerged in Jordan, which in turn have reflected and facilitated discussions amongst the country’s liberal elite circles. Despite a diversity of specializations as well as differences in readership, these publications, which include magazines and blogs, have coalesced around a dominant narrative about contemporary dynamics in Jordan. This narrative, which I refer to as the liberal elite discourse, ...
Keep Reading »Jordan, Liberalism, and the Question of Boycott
![[Riot police on election day. Image from 7iber.com]](/content_images/3/sm_7iber.jpg "[Riot police on election day. Image from 7iber.com]")
In the build-up to the 2010 Jordanian parliamentary elections (see slogans and posters here), a lively debate has taken place in Jordan about the efficacy of elections as a form of political practice. This article will discuss some of the major issues animating such debates, with a particular interest in critiquing the discourse emanating from the liberal elite circles in Amman (most represented by a diverse array of English-language magazines and blogs). The Jordanian ...
Keep Reading »On Being Addicts in Amman
![[Amman. Image from Expatify.com]](/content_images/3/sm_am1.jpg "[Amman. Image from Expatify.com]")
We don’t recall how our day started, but we do remember being out of the house with none of our usual spots in sight. Everything was different that day: the number of people in the street, the look in their eyes, and the closed-up stores. Amman isn’t the place to take big risks. The consequences, especially for those of us without wasta, would have been severe should we have been caught. Even without wasta, there was sure to be family drama as well. They always ...
Keep Reading »Bio
Ziad Abu-Rish is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). He currently serves as the Graduate Student Representative to the Board of Directors of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA). Ziad is Co-Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine. More of his Jadaliyya articles can be found here and here. You can follow him on Twitter at @ziadaburish.
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