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الأردن يبحث عن نفسه: الحكم والإصلاح والبعد الإسرائيلي
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يعاني الجسم السياسي الأردني من حالة إنهاك واستنزاف متفاقمين. فالحكم يعيد اجترار نفسه ضمن نفس المجموعة من المسؤولين الذين أصبحوا عبئاً على النظام أكثر من كونهم سنداً له. وبواقع الممارسة، عزل النظام نفسه عن قاعدته الشعبية خصوصاً المتعلمة والمثقفة والناشطة سياسياً مما جعله يدور في حلقة مفرغة. واستعاض الحكم عن أسلوب الحوار كوسيلة للتواصل مع قاعدته الشعبية بأسلوب إدارة القطيع حيث يتم استعمال سطوة الدولة لفرض وجهة نظر الحكم أو للحصول على تأييد شعبي مصطنع لسياسات أو قرارات حكومية لا تحظى أصلاً بشعبية أو قبول. وقد ساهم أولئك المسؤولين في تفاقم الوضع نتيجة قناعاتهم بأن الشعب لا يملك حولاً و لا قوة، وأنهم بالتالي فوق الشعب وفوق القانون وأن ما هو غير مباح يمكن أن يُستباح. لقد خلق ...
Keep Reading »Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Migrant Workers Caught Between Employers' Abuse and Poor Implementation of the Law
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[The following report was issued by Tamkeen for Legal and Human Rights.] Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Migrant Workers Caught Between Employers' Abuse and Poor Implementation of the Law General Summary Administrative and Legal Framework of Migrant Workers in Jordan According to statistics released by the Ministry of Labor in 2011, there are around 280,275 documented migrant workers in Jordan. In addition to these documented workers, there are also undocumented migrant workers, whose number amounts to half the number of documented migrant workers. The Ministry of Labor has the main role in dealing with migrant workers ...
Keep Reading »Jon Stewart's Theater of the Absurd
Soon after King Abdullah II ascended the throne of Jordan in 1999, he began using media and advertising campaigns to distinguish himself from his father King Husayn and to present his policies to his subjects. While for decades King Husayn’s picture appeared all over the country – garbed in bedouin, military, and Western costume – almost immediately, Abdullah trumped his father in sheer size of display by propping up an enormous poster of himself along University Road in Amman. He followed that act by erecting the largest flag pole in the world on a summit in the capital; the project seems to have been so successful a replica now dominates the skyline over the town ...
Keep Reading »Call for Applications: PARC Fellowship for Scholars Conducting Field-Based Research on Palestine, 2013-2014
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The Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) announces its 14th annual round of competition for post-doctoral and doctoral research fellowships in Palestinian Studies for 2013 - 2014. To be eligible for research fellowships, the following criteria must be met: The research project must make a contribution to Palestinian Studies. The research can be in any area of Palestinian Studies, including the humanities, social sciences, economics, law, health and sciences. Purely scientific research, however, is not eligible for this fellowship. The research must take place in Palestine, Israel, Jordan, or Lebanon. The research must take into account that the ...
Keep Reading »"من المآسي المضاعفة للنزوح:فتيات سوريات للزواج "بثمن بخس
![[المصدر ويكيبيديا]](/content_images/3/sm_lagion.jpg "[المصدر ويكيبيديا]")
"إعلان .. إعلان: فتيات سوريات للزواج. للاتصال على الارقام التالية: (...)"، نصٌ ترويجي عُلِّق على جدران الطرقات والاعمدة، بعد أيام قليلة من وصول اللاجئات السوريات الى محافظات الاردن الشمالية هرباً من الاضطرابات التي تجتاح بلادهن. اختفى الاعلان سريعاً، غير ان الحديث عن توفر لاجئات سوريات للزواج غدا "طبقاً رئيسياً" على موائد الاردنيين. الزواج من السوريات يبدأ بحض فقير لا يملك القدرة المالية على الارتباط، ويمتد ليصبح تفاخر عازب بقدرته على الزواج من أربع لاجئات دفعة واحدة، فيما يرى فيه المتزوجون وسيلة مناسبة لاستفزاز زوجاتهن، عبر تهديدهن بجلب "ضرة" سورية. ما عليكَ سوى الذهاب الى المفرق (68 كيلومتراً شمال شرق عمّان)، او الرمثا (95 كيلومتراً ...
Keep Reading »Materialist Analysis in the Service of a Nationalist Thesis: Response to Interview with Tariq Tell on the Hirak Siyasi in Jordan
![[Jordanians are seen reflected in a vehicle's window in Amman, Jordan. Image by Muhammed Muheisen/AP Photo]](/content_images/3/sm_AP091125013770.jpg "[Jordanians are seen reflected in a vehicle's window in Amman, Jordan. Image by Muhammed Muheisen/AP Photo]")
[This article was written as a response to a recently published two-part interview with Tariq Tell on the history of state formation in Jordan and regime-society relations in the context of the Arab uprisings. Click here to read Tariq Tell's rejoinder to this response.] Political agitation and social dissidence have become daily occurrences in Jordan. Strikes, demonstrations, marches, sit-ins, denunciatory public statements, public property destruction episodes, altercations and violent clashes with the police and baltagiyya, and cabinet turnover: events such as these have become the daily staple of news coming from Jordan. All of this would qualify as a form of ...
Keep Reading »الأردن: بريق إخواني وعدائية سلفية
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يشكل المسلمون 97 في المئة من عدد سكان الأردن البالغ عددهم، وفق أرجح الإحصائيات، ستة ملايين نسمة. يصفُ 90 في المئة منهم أنفسهم بـ "المتدينين" أو "المتديّنين إلى حدّ ما"، بحسب استطلاع أجراه مركز الدراسات الإستراتيجية في الجامعة الأردنية ضمن مشروع قياس الرأي العام العربي "الباروميتر العربي" للعام 2011. يرى 52 في المئة من المستجيبين للاستطلاع أن الممارسات الدينية هي "ممارسات خاصة يجب تفريقها عن الحياة الاجتماعية والسياسية"، في مقابل معارضة 41 في المئة من المستجيبين للعبارة ذاتها. بعيداً عن لغة الأرقام، يُلتمس دور الدين كلاعب رئيسي في البنية الاجتماعية والاقتصادية للمجتمع الأردني، ويتباين أثره وفقاً للتباين بين التيارات الإسلامية ...
Keep Reading »Jordan's Current Political Opposition Movements and the Need for Further Research: An Interview with Tariq Tell (Part 2)
![[King Abdullah II and Queen Rania wave from a motorcade during an official celebration of the 10th anniversary of the king's accession to the throne in Amman, 9 June 2009. Image by Nader Daoud/AP Photo]](/content_images/3/sm_AP090609015178.jpg "[King Abdullah II and Queen Rania wave from a motorcade during an official celebration of the 10th anniversary of the king's accession to the throne in Amman, 9 June 2009. Image by Nader Daoud/AP Photo]")
The following is the second and final installement in a two-part interview on the history and politics of the Jordanian regime. The interview was conducted during the first two weeks of August 2012 with Tariq Tell, a Jordanian scholar and activist. In this second part, Tell discusses the positions of various contemporary socio-political forces towards the Hashemite regime and outlines important areas for much-needed further research on the history and politics of state building and regime-society dynamics in Jordan. Click here to read Part 1, where Tell discusses the history of the Hashemite regime and Jordanian state formation, as well as the broad ...
Keep Reading »On the Nature of the Hashemite Regime and Jordanian Politics: An Interview with Tariq Tell (Part 1)
The following is the first installment in a two-part interview on the history and politics of the Jordanian regime. The interview was conducted during the first two weeks of August 2012 with Tariq Tell, a Jordanian scholar and activist. In this first part, Tell discusses the history of the Hashemite regime and Jordanian state formation as well as the broad outlines of the political field that such a history has engendered. In the second part (click here to access) Tell discusses the positions of various contemporary socio-political forces towards the Hashemite regime and outlines important areas for much-needed further research on the history and politics of state ...
Keep Reading »Masrah al-Share' (Theater of the Street): Performing in Downtown Amman (In both Arabic and English)
![[Ahmed Sror, Amjad Hijazin, and Suliman Zawahreh. Image from Tableb Albasheer.]](/content_images/3/sm_masrahshareamman.jpg "[Ahmed Sror, Amjad Hijazin, and Suliman Zawahreh. Image from Tableb Albasheer.]")
هذا الشريط ضمن سلسة من الأفلام تنشرها ”جدلية“ بالإتفاق مع موقع ”العربي الحر“ ومن انتاجه. توثق هذه الأفلام الوثائقية القصيرة التي تتراوح مدتها بين دقيقتين إلى ثلاث دقائق لجوانب في الحياة اليومية لهؤلاء الذين تتحدث عنهم، وتبعات الثورات العربية سلباً وايجاباً على حياتهم. تتبع الكاميرات حيوات أفراد من أجيال وطبقات مختلفة، سواء كانوا من المدينة أو الريف، أغنياء أو فقراء. كما تحاول تتبع نشاطاتهم في مختلف المناطق العربية والتي يصعب عبور حدودها لأسباب معروفة. الفيلم بعنوان "مسرح الشارع". في أحد شوارع العاصمة الأردنية عمّان، يؤدي أحمد سرور وأمجد حجازين وسليمان ظواهرة مسرحية تدعو المواطنين الأردنيين إلى محاسبة حكومتهم على الفساد. المؤدون الثلاثة شباب ...
Keep Reading »Dallying with Reform in a Divided Jordan
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[The following is the latest from the International Crisis Group (ICG) on Jordan.] Popular Protest in North Africa and the Middle East (IX): Dallying with Reform in a Divided Jordan Middle East Report No. 118 12 March 2012 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Something is brewing in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. It is not so much that protests have been spreading since 2011; the country has experienced these before and so far they remain relatively small. It is, rather, who is behind them and from where dissatisfaction stems. East Bankers – Jordanians who inhabited the area before the arrival of the first Palestinian refugees in 1948 – have long formed the pillar of support for a ...
Keep Reading »Resistance and Revolution as Lived Daily Experience: An Interview with Leila Khaled (Part 4)
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[This is Part 4 of a translated transcription of a series of interviews conducted by the author with Leila Khaled during the summer of 2007. Click here to read the Introduction to the interview, here to read Part 1, here to read Part 2, and here to read Part 3] After a brief training period in Jordan in 1969, I found myself in Lebanon meeting with Dr. Wadi Haddad. He asked me if I was ready to die. I replied that I was and asked why. He then told me that the real question is whether I was willing to spend the rest of my life in jail. I once again replied that I was and asked why. He then asked if I was ready to hijack a plane. ...
Keep Reading »Appeal to Defend Freedoms of Expression and the Press in Jordan
[The following statement was issued by the Jordanian Coordination Group of Electronic Websites (CGEW) on 13 September 2012 and published on Ammon News.] Despite King Abdullah II's repeated assurances that Jordanians enjoy unrestricted freedom of expression and free media, successive Jordanian governments for the past three years have attempted -- and succeeded -- in passing laws designed to undermine the freedom of the press, particularly the now widespread electronic news websites. On Thursday, ...
Keep Reading »الأردنيون: الحقيقة المُرَّة
يمر الأردن الآن في مرحلة من انعدام الوزن وفقدان التوازن السياسي. فالعبث بإرادة الشعب ومشاعره من خلال فرض سياسات وقرارات وقوانين تتناقض ورغبة الشعب قد دفعت الأمور في مسار خطر . الكثيرون يتساءلون عن ما أوصل الأردن إلى ھذا المأزق ، ولماذا؟ الإجابة لا تستدعي ذكاءً خارقاً أو قدرة فائقة على التحليل. إن مسار السياسة الرسمية خلال عامين من عمر الحراك الشعبي في الأردن قد تمخضت عن سياسات وممارسات أقل ما يمكن أن توصف به بأنها جزءٌ من إستراتيجية غامضة وغير معلنة يتبناھا النظام ويرفضها الشعب. ولكن لماذا ...
Keep Reading »Press Release: The River Has Two Banks
The politics of segregation has greatly hindered a collective understanding of shared realities and common histories across the east and west banks of the River Jordan. As individuals who are invested in the relationship between Palestine and Jordan, the historical trajectory of the two compels us to examine where we are now and how we can build new alliances to overcome the social, economic, and political challenges of the day. The river has two banks is an initiative addressing the growing ...
Keep Reading »George Habash: A Profile From the Archives
[”A Profile from the Archives“ is a new series published by Jadaliyya in both Arabic and English in cooperation with the Lebanese newspaper, Assafir. These profiles will feature iconic figures who left indelible marks in the politics and culture of the Middle East and North Africa.] Name: George Known as: Habash Date of birth: 1926 Date of death: 2008 Name of wife: Hilda Habash Date of marriage: 1961 Children: Maysa/Luma Nationality: Palestine ...
Keep Reading »The Last Friday Film Review: DC Premiere at DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival
Youssef leans over his salmon-colored cement balcony overlooking Amman’s poorer neighborhoods. The houses in the distance are stacked one over the other like a bland-colored Lego city covered in smog. He sips his coffee alone, listening to the sound of the call to prayer. The scene is so grand and the solitary man is so central that the call to prayer fades into the background, ricocheting off the buildings in the distance. It seems little more than an echo in his ears. Some movement below captures ...
Keep Reading »A Rejoinder to the Response of Lama Abu Odeh: On Jordan, the Hashemite Regime, and the Current Mobilizations
[This article was written as a rejoinder to Lama Abu Odeh's response to the author's interview on the history of state formation in Jordan and regime-society relations in the context of the Arab uprisings. Click here to read Lama Abu Odeh's response, and click here to read the original interview with Tariq Tell.] Lama Abu Odeh begins her response to my two-part interview published in Jadaliyya by congratulating me for offering readers an analysis of Jordan’s socio-political “tapestry,” and ...
Keep Reading »Masrah al-Share' (Theater of the Street): Suleiman, PhoFassad, and Jordan (In both Arabic and English)
هذا الشريط ضمن سلسة من الأفلام تنشرها ”جدلية“ بالإتفاق مع موقع ”العربي الحر“ ومن انتاجه. توثق هذه الأفلام الوثائقية القصيرة التي تتراوح مدتها بين دقيقتين إلى ثلاث دقائق لجوانب في الحياة اليومية لهؤلاء الذين تتحدث عنهم، وتبعات الثورات العربية سلباً وايجاباً على حياتهم. تتبع الكاميرات حيوات أفراد من أجيال وطبقات مختلفة، سواء كانوا من المدينة أو الريف، أغنياء أو فقراء. كما تحاول تتبع نشاطاتهم في مختلف المناطق العربية والتي يصعب عبور حدودها لأسباب معروفة. في منطقة الزرقا في ضواحي عمّان ...
Keep Reading »Traveling Open Call for Palestinian Artists (30 August Deadline)
The River Has Two Banks invites Palestinian artists/writers/thinkers traveling via Jordan to stay for an additional night/day to present their work in Amman in an artist talk at Makan art space. The politics of segregation has greatly hindered travel across the east and west banks of the River Jordan. For those in Jordan, travel into Palestine remains a dream that is determined/prevented by an Israeli visa. For Palestinians living in the West Bank, Jordan is the only exit point. This border, which is ...
Keep Reading »Syrian Refugees: Anxious Neighbors Stretched Thin
[The following report was issued by Refugees International on 10 July 2012.] Syrian Refugees: Anxious Neighbors Stretched Thin Since early 2012, Lebanon and Jordan have seen a dramatic increase in the number of refugees crossing their borders as the Syrian government intensifies its crackdown on opposition groups. Despite the fact that neither country has signed the 1951 Refugee Convention or the 1967 Protocol, both have accommodated those fleeing Syria, providing services and assistance ...
Keep Reading »Amman Critical Language Scholarship: Integrating Language and Culture
Following the September 11 attacks, the US government designated a number of languages as “critical need languages”; Arabic was and still is, of course, on top of the list. In order to ensure enough Americans are learning these “critical need languages” and to ensure higher proficiency levels and deeper understandings of target cultures, the US government established the Critical Languages Scholarship (CLS) program. Administered by the Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs with ...
Keep Reading »مقابلة: تحديات العمل من أجل حقوق العمال الاجانب في الاردن
تعرض السيدة ليندا الكلش في الفيديو التالي، والذي قام بتصويره وسام الصليبي، الإنتهاكات التي يتعرض لها العمال الأجانب في الأردن والدور الذي يلعبه مركز „ تمكين“ لمساعدتهم . تدير السيدة ليندا الكلش مركز „تمكين“ للمساعدة القانونية وحقوق الإنسان في الأردن وقد حصلت على جائزة „الجمهورية الفرنسية لحقوق الإنسان“ والتي منحها إياها عام 2011 الآن جوبيه، وزيرالخارجية الفرنسي بمناسبة اليوم العالمي لحقوق الإنسان والذي يصادف في 10 يناير/ كانون الثاني. وقُدمت الجائزة للمركز تقديراً وتشجيعاً وإشادة بمجهوداته ...
Keep Reading »Statement on Press Restrictions in Jordan's New Anti-Corruption Bill
[The following statement was issued by the Committee to Protect Journalists on 30 September 2011.] New York, September 30, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists is disheartened by the passage in Jordan's lower chamber of Parliament of a draft anti-corruption law which would allow heavy fines for publishing information on corruption, and calls on the upper chamber to reject the bill. On September 27, the chamber of deputies passed the draft law, which would allow fines for public ...
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