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A few months ago, I took the boat from Andalusia to Morocco. From the Spanish port town of Algeciras to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta (Sebta) behind Jebel Mousa. From Babylon to ...
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Watching Lawrence of Arabia (the film) for the first time a few days ago made me think about the Arab Revolution that overthrew the Turks as part of World War ...
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I spent three days ahead of first round of Egyptian parliamentary elections since the revolution in the very place that kick started it: Tahrir Square. ...
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Water excavated is settling behind a sand-dam before being processed at one of the drilling locations.
A true oasis in the desert, billion years old ground water is excavated ...
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Today I interviewed Reem al Rawashdeh, a journalist covering water since 2005 for the largest Jordanian daily, Al Rai. Reem has a lot of knowledge about dealing with water scarcity ...
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Good news. All Jordan's water woes will be over by 2022. This is the message I was left with while leaving the Ministry of Water. I went there earlier this ...
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I just came back from the Dead Sea, where I attended a closed, high-level meeting on paving Jordan's water future. Lovely. Now I can look for answers to many ...
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Yesterday I joined a group of water experts from Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Palestine, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen for a field study to Rsaifeh - which is an ...
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Today I had a meeting with Reem al-Masri from 7iber, the leading jordanian alternative news and analysis source. Reem is working with a 7iber project called "once upon a ...
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Four days since I landed in Amman, and after a short break by the shores of the Red Sea, I am back in Jordan's capital to start my months long ...
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If the american dream was all about prosperity, the swedish dream is all about the humbleness that comes after prosperity. It is not about a big car, a fat flat, ...
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Recently there has been another Rami Abdelrahman whose being quoted a lot in the media regarding what is happening in Syria. Apparently, the other Rami Abdelrahman is a Syrian based ...
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This is the first of hopefully many letters that I'll start publishing here. Some will be in Swedish, some for officials, some to total strangers, some to people I love, ...
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I died two weeks ago. I had a wife and a daughter, I was 34, and was the first among my peers to die. I've seen them come and throw ...
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Water has always been on my mind. When I was a kid, I used to wait by the water tank on the roof for it to fill up once a ...
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Keeping a distant from others can result in a meticulous process of self absorption. Keeping a distance from yourself, can be socially appealing. Recently, I've been wavering between the two, only to ...
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I swear oath to the humming bee
slipping through the half open window
to awaken me.
I swear oath an to the division bell,
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As public debate in Jordan centers on reforms, Jordanians are discovering that they cannot stand apathetic anymore, despite their disagreement on what they want and what they need.
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Thank you, King Abdullah of Jordan for standing up for the free word of the youth, for taking it upon yourself to preserve our right to free expression. For the ...
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I just posted this on the Facebook group: What do Jordanians need? (update, group was shut down the next day!)
Great news! I received a donor invitation to a meeting to ...
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As Jordanians continue to show unwavering support for Arab revolutions through social media, the majority of commentators seem to stand a little short of calling for similar action in their ...
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I attended the other day a panel discussion (recorded streaming) at the Swedish Institute organised by a civil society think tank called Sektor 3. The ...
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The ongoing winds of change blowing in Arabia have not only reshaped the regions political ambitions, but mostly reinstated social unity. Observers have marveled at how young and old, men ...
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Less than five minutes after Egyptian President Husni Mubarak announced he was not running for presidency in the next September elections -- CNNs main headline changed to "A future with ...
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As a resident, non-Swedish citizen, I got to vote in both Stockholms commune and county council elections, but not for parliamentary candidates. It came as a pleasant surprise: I ...
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Christiania, Köpenhavn, Danmark
The sweetness of nicotine gum is tainted by the bitter taste of morning coffee. Window wide open to trees hissing along early autumn winds. ...
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There is no doubt that international efforts to address water problems are gaining more momentum now than ever, especially in the shadow of climate concerns and a heightened sense ...
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It's been long but exciting nine years, sitting at one end of the information world, the journalist side. But professional journalism is a dying old giant fastly becoming a tradition ...
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In 2001, when Jordan sent its troops to Afghanistan to participate in the ISAF force there in combatting terrorism, the government said its role consisted only of establishing and ...
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In the past few months, the US security stronghold suffered two blows in a row, right in the very hearts of two maximum security facilities - by two entrusted doctors ...
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A confirmation to Jordan's cooperation with the CIA in the war on terrorism is finally made available by an unfortunate twist of events, not by official announcement. Jordan was ...
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The jordanian military headquarters announced yesterday the death of Captain Ali ben Zaid in Afghanistan, a relative to the king abdullah, bearing the title of "noble - al shareef".
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Reflecting on the Young Leaders Visitors Program 2009....
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“Wherever we came out we were branded Satanists,” writes Rami Abdel Rahman in this personal account of his experiences as a young metal head in the 1990s heavy metal scene ...
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...limbo is not a place, it is the state of mind. The place, though, is Lidingö, the island where I choose to live temporarily under this limbo period. It is ...
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In four months, we will be celebrating the end of the 00s, a decade that would probably be more remembered for terrorism, social media, natural disasters, viruses, and the ...
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