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No Toilets or Air For "Forgotten Prisoners"

Betwa Sharma | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

Read More: Egypt, Syria, Uruguay, Jordan, Torture, Tunisia, Morocco, Toilets, United Nations, Corporal Punishment, United States, Special Rapporteur, Equitorial Guinea, China, Human Rights Violations, Montevideo, Iran, Amman, Alien Deportation, Russia, Israel, Falun Gong Camps, Togo, India, Saudia Arabia, Cuba, Algeria, Nigeria, Manfred Nowak, Immigration Laws, Toga, World News

Prison conditions worldwide are worse than the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture could have imagined. Jails without air, toilets and food are not rare.

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Video Blogging Jordan Turns Citizens Into Journalists

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 07.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Ammannet, Jordan, Internet, Vblogging, Street Paving, Blogging, Amman, Media News

Vblogging has empowered citizen journalists who are fighting to prove that they can use technology to change their own lives.

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After Trauma, Iraqi Refugees Look for Healing

Catholic Relief Services | Posted 07.04.2009 | World

Read More: Violence, Iraqi Refugees, Baghdad, Iraq, Lebanon, Kidnapping, Trauma, War, Jordan, Amman, Beirut, World News

For thousands of Iraqis, kidnapping is a nightmare they cannot wake up from. Between 2004 and 2007, hundreds of children and adults were abducted, tortured and often killed.

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Jordanian Exorcist Scares Jinn Out Of Patients

GlobalPost | Tom A. Peter | Posted 05.31.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Quran, Jinn, Exorcism, Jordan, Amman, Imam Imad Adawi, Middle East, Quranic Text, Arrafs, Mohammed Al-Yafawi, World News

ZARQA, Jordan -- It's midnight in the slums just outside of Amman, and Mohammed al-Yafawi has a local man pinned to the ground. His sidekick, a loca...

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CNN Reporter Turned Princess Starts Jordanian J-School

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Upi, Sciences Po, French, Iraq, Arabic, Paris, English, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Amman, Un, Royal Film Commission, Lakhdar Brahimi, Jordan, Nic Robertson, Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein, European Union, Jane Arraf, Facebook, Princess Rym Ali, New York, Iraq War, Le Monde, Cnn, Saddam Hussein, Cairo, Jordan Media Institute, King Abdallah II, Rym Brahimi, Francoise Chippaux, Baghdad, Queen Rania, Algeria, Italian, Saachi, Sorbonne, Zain, Amman-Jordan, Media News

Princess Rym's advice to young journalists today is: "Be persistent. Don't take no for an answer. Remember why you're doing this. It's not about you, it's about the story."

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Youth In The New, Trendy Middle East Break Dating Taboos

GlobalPost | Tom A. Peter | Posted 04.24.2009 | World

Read More: Relationships in the Middle East, Damascus, Youth in Jordan, Jordan, Sex, Dating, Youth in the Middle East, Middle East, Middle East Relationships, Sex in the Middle East, Amman, Middle East News, World News

AMMAN -- At nine on a Thursday night, La Calle -- a popular bar in Amman -- is just starting to fill up. A Jordanian woman in a low-cut shirt share...

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Jordanian Government Rejects Jordan Valley Women' Radio

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 03.07.2009 | World

Read More: Jordan, Media, Amman, Community Radio, International Women's Rights, Radio, World News

Women from the Jordan valley produce programming from their community. We are able to do what appears to be an illegal act in a totally legal way.

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A New Approach to Terrorism

Kerry Kennedy | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Journalists, Women's Rights, Islam, War on Terror, Timothy McVeigh, United Nations, Donald Rumsfeld, Guantanamo, Global War on Terror, Chinese, Tibet, London, War on Terrorism, Islamophobia, Madrid, Bush Administration Torture, Arabs, Sudan, National Security, Guantanamo Bay, Darfur Sudan, Amman, Abu Ghraib Abuse, CIA Interrogations, Cruelty, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Mumbai, Bali, Russia Georgia Conflict, Russia Georgia War, Sudan Genocide, Nairobi, New York City, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Robert F. Kennedy, Abu Ghraib, Darfur, Bush Administration, Human Rights, Donald Rumsfeld Torture, Counterterrorism, Prison, Abu Ghraib Torture, Alberto Mora, Torture, Politics News

A war on terror which undermines the most basic values of society -- life, liberty, the rule of law -- is not worth waging if we end up creating a society which mirrors the repression we battled in the first place.

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Jordan First: A King's Modernization Motto Obscures a Palestinian Past and Iraqi Present.

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 01.05.2009 | World

Soon, I would learn that the "Jordan First" initiative, first launched in 2002 with the stated goals of reform and democratization, now carried a meaning much deeper.

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Iraqi Refugees Still Too Scared to Return Home

Deborah Amos | Posted 01.04.2009 | World

Read More: Bush Administration Iraqi Refugees, Iraq Christians, Refugees in the Middle East, Damascus, Middle East, u.s. Resettlement, Iraqi Government, Bush Administration, Iraqi Refugees, Syria Ministry of Affairs, Refugees Returning to Iraq, Baghdad, Barack Obama Iraqi Refugees, Iraq, Syria, Amman, World News

U.S. military officials and the Iraqi government claim the country is becoming a less dangerous place. For most Iraqi refugees, those assessments don't count for much. They listen to reports from the ground.

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