New York, May 31, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by the sentencing Tuesday of two Jordanian editors to two months in prison for publishing controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
Jihad Momani, former editor-in-chief of the weekly Shihan, and Hashem al-Khalidi, editor-in-chief of the weekly Al-Mehwar, were found guilty by an [...]
The following is an abbreviated translation from some of the Arabic-language blogsphere. It was initially published at Global Voices!
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Amal, in her latest cartoon:
“See my Wawa, kiss my Wawa.” The Wawa is the little tiny hurt “ouch”..
In this cartoon; a poor bleeding Palestinian child is begging from a wealthy Arabian man who seems not giving attention [...]
Arranged marriages are not unusual in much of the Arab world. But young Jordanians are starting to reject that tradition, and instead look to find a mate on their own. A marriage-brokering agency has opened in Irbid, about an hour north of the capital of Amman, to help provide an alternative to traditional marriages, NPR [...]
This is an update email from Samia (pseudonym) Nadia Hasan. After she was denied entry her homeland, Palestine, she came back to Jordan, spent couple of days at Aqaba, and now she is in Amman.
On her first day there, she wrote:
March 30, 2006
Today is my first day in Amman, well, today its the [...]
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Looks like the Jordanian National Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) are on high gear. After the recent report they issued on Jordan’s prisoners in jail without trial, today’s come a new report on “Inaccurate rights terminology in national school textbooks.”
Here are some excerpts:
Jordanian authorities should revise national school textbooks in order to avoid erroneous human [...]
According to the annual report of the Arab Economic Unity Council, the Arab GDP is improving.
Her is the summery:
Arab gross domestic product reached $860 billion in 2004 compared to 746.1 billion the year before.
GDP growth ranged between 1.2 and 6.5 per cent while the GDP per capita rose to $2879 in 2004, compared to 2572 [...]
Another smile for the day: A comedy video clip about something that every Jordanian girl can relate to. Guys from the street telling her how to park!
[Hat tip: Amin Matalqa. The no-budget, pre-AFI, one-man-crew short films director]
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Reuters Alertnet:
A third of all prisoners in Jordan have been jailed without formal charges or facing a trial, a prominent Jordanian human rights body said on Thursday.
The report, drawn up by the state-financed National Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) said some of the 2,884 inmates mentioned in the report have been in prison without charges [...]
EXCLUSIVE-US tax breaks help Jewish settlers in West Bank
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Under its truce with Hamas, Israel has permitted shipments of frozen meat, soft drinks, cookies, jam, shampoo, clothing and other items. However, the amounts are insufficient for the entire population. In September 2007 - three months after Hamas took over the Gaza Strip, and after the main cargo crossing, Karni, had ... A Monopoly of Incompetence, Corruption, Failure and Thuggery
Years of silence by Palestinian "Sheiks" and intellectuals led us to where we are now. Arafat ruled the PLO and Fatah with iron fist, using bribery, intimidation even physical liquidation to silence every one. There was never a call for accountability of decisions, failures even financial corruptions. Time for a ... We are running out of time for a two-state solution
By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Correspondent At the end of my conversation with Sari Nusseibeh at the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem, the highly respected president of Al-Quds University - and cosignatory of "The People's Choice," a peace plan that he formulated with former Shin Bet chief Ami Ayalon - told ... Woman beat, threatened by 'modesty squad'
Jerusalem woman who left ultra-Orthodox life after her divorce gagged, beaten by group of self-proclaimed 'chastity guards'
Aviad Glickman
A 31-year-old Jerusalem woman was cruelly beaten and threatened with death by members of the 'modesty squad' who took it upon themselves to interrogate her about her relationships ...
