Here’s a feature I wrote regading Jordanian opinion and Obama.
It was featured in 7iber.com
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Written By: Rana F. Sweis
7iberDotCom — On a bustling street in downtown Amman, Farah Al Sayyad, 24, stares at a magazine showing American democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama walking up a flight of stairs while gazing at the sky.
“For me it’s not about if he will be good or great,” she says. “It’s about not doing something negative to us, like waging another war in the region.”
Suddenly her friend Eman Buraile, 23, turns around. “Wake up, Farah!” she interrupts. “I don’t really know who Obama is, but they are all the same.”
Some middle-class Jordanians say they do not know Obama well enough to judge his character or intentions. Yet, when they watch television or read translated texts of his speeches, they have no problem envisioning him in a character role.
