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Claudia Norton | August 9th, 2011
Hello from Amman! My schedule has been absolutely wild for the past month! I’ve been networking like mad, planning interviews that fall through at the last moment, and rushing to prepare for impromptu ones. Because the LGBT community is so... -
Claudia Norton | June 26th, 2011
HEADPHONES STRONGLY RECOMENDED! Geography and Class The Jordanians we’ve met often speak of two Ammans: The poorer, more densely populated eastern section of the city, and the more affluent West Amman. Books@ Café sits atop... -
Raillan Brooks | June 18th, 2011
Hey folks, this post is going to be in the form of a podcast! This is an experiment in a format outside of the text and video we've been using. It's a candid and casual discussion between Claudia and me, talking about our process, the obstacles we'... -
Raillan Brooks | June 17th, 2011
The prevalence of public Internet access points in Amman is already high and is only growing. No where is this growth brought into sharper relief than at Books@ café, a bookstore that doubles as a cyber café, the first Internet café to open... -
Claudia Norton | June 12th, 2011
Hello from Amman, Jordan! Raillan and I arrived in the midday heat a few days ago and have been settling into our apartment near the Fifth Circle, one of a series of eight traffic roundabouts which demarcate not only geographic but also social space...
Real Virtuality: Cyber Communities and the New Horizon of Emancipation in the Middle East
Location
Amman
Jordan
