From AFP…
Arab singers will boycott a music festival in Jordan next month over claims it is being set up by the same company which organized Israel’s 60th anniversary celebrations in May, a union leader said on Monday.

When the 1970 Black September massacres in Jordan started, my father was then in London attending a student conference for Arab scholars in Europe, which aimed at reaching some form of coordination between the various Arab nationalist and communist factions operating in the European universities. The attendees of the conference mobilized, during their brief stay [...]

For continuous updates (in Arabic) on the Jordanian labor movement and the left, I invite you to check out Jordanian Issues…

Three leftist activists were detained by the Jordanian police for putting up posters about the Nakba in the streets…

Our working class brothers and sisters are striking in Jordan and Lebanon over work and living conditions… Spread the word ya shabab to raise solidarity, and I hope the bloggers in those two countries will supply us with more info, photos and videos of the industrial action…

I’ve been looking for their tracks for a while.. Here’s a song by the Jordanian Doom Metal band Bilocate…

Bilocate: Days of Joy…
To find out more about the Jordanian metal scene, check out JorZine…

Leftist lawyer and friend Gamal Eid alerted me to this interesting (Arabic) Jordanian blog… Check it out and add it to your blogroll ya shabab…

Detained Muslim cleric Abu Qatada issued a statement from his prison in Britain, denouncing King Abdallah of Jordan’s position towards the Palestinian refugees’ right of return. Click on Fathi Abul Ezz’s cartoon below to download the (Arabic) statement…

Click on the pic…

(Via SM)
I found this touching story, written by a Jordanian blogger, on the horrible work conditions of Egyptian migrant laborers in Amman.
Egyptian Workers in Jordan: A True Story
To be frank, I was not surprised at all when I read this. It’s no secret how Egyptian (especially the unskilled) workers are treated in the Arab World, [...]

A story from the LA Times…

Jordan’s King Risks Shah’s Fate, Critics Warn
Abdullah II, who has closely allied himself with the U.S., is accused by reformers and traditionalists alike of alienating his people.
By Borzou Daragahi, Times Staff Writer, October 1, 2006

AMMAN, Jordan — A politically inexperienced king takes control of a Middle Eastern monarchy from [...]