Category Archives: “My” Published Articles
Jordan’s Rainbow Street Living
Somewhere Over On Rainbow Published in Living Well Magazine By Rana F. Sweis November, 2009 Decades after it first opened, customers still flock to Awni supermarket on Rainbow Street in Jabal Amman. The shop owner, Mohammad Swenda, says for many … Continue reading
Expose’: Prison Reform in Jordan. Is it Possible?
Published in Living Well Magazine. June 2009. Despite negative perceptions about Jordan’s penitentiary system, officials say they want all prisons in Jordan to eventually become centers for vocational training and rehabilitation. Is change possible? By Rana F. Sweis When Um … Continue reading
American Military Interventions In Post 9/11 World
My second HuffPost contribution: A year after the September 11, 2001 attacks on Washington and New York, former President Bush’s national security strategy was clear: US interests triumph all else and international institutions would not hinder military actions deemed necessary. … Continue reading
HuffPost: Worrying for America
As the American franchise restaurant Bennigan’s filed for bankruptcy this summer, Jordanian families exuberantly packed the newly built Bennigan’s in Amman. The restaurant remains open. And when Americans were Googling the address of their favorite neighborhood Starbucks to see if it was closing down, I was surprised to see three newly Starbucks springing in my Amman neighborhood. Continue reading
Ending It All: Suicide in Jordan
His story, like others similar to it, is shrouded in mystery and recorded only in snippets. And just like their short interrupted lives, information regarding suicide victims’ acts and their aftermath is scarce in Jordan. Like so many families who prefer to deny or forget the past, a person who knows a person tells a story of pain.
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On John Updike
A very well-written op-ed on John Updike and the number of authors we have recently lost. IT has been a hard year or so for writers. The world seems to grow emptier and emptier, depletion without replenishment, and now with … Continue reading
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Video: Pres-Elect Obama: The Middle East Response
Watch On this edition of Independent Sources we talk with an Iraqi and Jordanian journalist about how people in their countries are reacting to the Obama victory. We look at the challenges facing African-American newspapers, and we profile Claire Chen, … Continue reading
Which politics for Arab poetry?
From the Archives By Rana F. Sweis IHT The Daily Star, 12/18/03 The key to understanding the hearts and minds of Arabs is through shiir, or poetry, their greatest art. The Iraq war and its aftermath fueled mixed emotions … Continue reading
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The Palin Factor
This is an article I wrote a month ago, published in Living Well magazine when Palin became a factor. I hope I’ll have a better quality copy up on this blog soon. By Rana F. Sweis AMMAN// In the … Continue reading
Jordanians Weigh in On Obama’s Candidacy
Here’s a feature I wrote regading Jordanian opinion and Obama. It was featured in 7iber.com Current Article Oct 9, 2008 | Written By: Rana F. Sweis 7iberDotCom — On a bustling street in downtown Amman, Farah Al Sayyad, 24, stares … Continue reading
