Gunman kills Jordanian writer charged over anti-Islam cartoon: Report

middleeasteye.net, Gunman kills Jordanian writer charged over anti-Islam cartoon: Report "The cartoon Hattar posted on his Facebook page featured an illustration of God under the title "God of Daesh," using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State (IS) group"

Jordanian website turns to satire to combat heavy news

middleeasteye.net, Jordanian website turns to satire to combat heavy news, 23 May 2016 "There are few regions on Earth where the truth is harder to bear than the Middle East. The daily news of air strikes, suicide bombings and entire cities under siege is more than most people can countenance.

"That is why one website has begun packaging the news with a dose of comedy, to get Arabs to engage more with what is happening around them. That website, al-Hudood (The Limits), is a kind of Arabic equivalent of the Onion. It uses satire to reveal serious and often dark realities about the world we live in." 

Some good examples on this website from al-Hudood.

The Battle of Ideas in the Middle East

BBC World Service, The Battle of Ideas in the Middle East - Part One "Kevin Connolly travels through the Middle East to look at different ways in which the Arab states in the region are confronting the ideas of the so-called Islamic State and how well-equipped they are to fight them" Worth listening to, as it relates to several themes associated with this blog, including online issues. Also see Kevin Connolly, BBC News, Battle of ideas at heart of fight against Islamic State

Jordan

Yahoo News, Jordan takes Islamic State battle to Internet, mosques ""Jordan is waging a war against jihadist ideology and amended the anti-terrorism law... because the Internet has become the main tool for mobilising and recruiting" militants, said analyst Hasan Abu Haniya." Also listen to Radio 4, The World Tonight from last night on Jordanian issues

First Anonymous Attack against the Regime in Jordan

ArabCrunch, First Anonymous Attack against the Regime in Jordan, The Group Hacked Briefly Jordan’s Prime Ministry Website, 29 Sep 2013 " Anonymous hacker group have defaced briefly a webpage on Jordan’s prime ministry website in objection to government plans to raise taxes and prices. and left a message in Arabic to Prime Minister Abdullah Nsur."

Pushing for change, some in Jordan point to king

Timesonline.com: Middle-east, Pushing for change, some in Jordan point to king "Hirak surfaced in the wake of the Arab Spring through Internet social networking."

Jordan media

Daoud Kuttab, The Washington Post, Freedom in Jordan does not extend to information - : opinion

"AmmanNet.net started as an electronic media experiment. It was created with support from the Open Society Institute and was sponsored in its first year by UNESCO and the city of Amman. Initially our online broadcasts were barely followed in Jordan. By collaborating with a Palestinian FM radio station, we were able to bypass government restrictions on radio broadcasts; the Palestinian station rebroadcast our signal into Jordanian air space, using our Internet Webcast. Since 2003, Jordan has allowed independent radio stations, but the Internet has continued to be a lifeline for freedom of expression."

Jordan Rises as Internet Hub While King Curbs Expression

Jordan Rises as Internet Hub While King Curbs Expression - Businessweek "The country experienced a tech boom that gained speed as young Arabs toppled regimes from Egypt to Tunisia and millions were driven online for the first time. Jordan now hosts about three-quarters of all Arabic content on the Internet, according to the Geneva-based International Telecommunication Union (ITU)."

Refers to kharabeesh.com

Google to block Jordan links to anti-Islam film

Ahram Online, Google to block Jordan links to anti-Islam film "Google has agreed to block all links connecting Internet users in Jordan to an anti-Islam film made in the United States that has stirred outrage across the Muslim world, a Jordanian minister said on Saturday."

Jordanian Twitter campaign

Global Voices, Jordan: Jordanians Say “Thank You!” to Monarchy "Jordanian Twitter users have been using the hashtag #شكرا, or “thank you”, to tweet sarcastically about what the Jordanian monarchy has done for the country."

Wikileaks on Jordan

arabcrunch.com, Wikileaks: Jordanian government officials envision Jordan as the “India of the Middle East”, 7 Sep 2011 "A US diplomatic cable sent from US embassy in Amman and published on Wikileaks this week discussed Jordan’s IT sector status and plans after Yahoo acquisition of Jordanian portal Maktoob."

Jordanian Youth Movement Launches Online Petition

arabcrunch.com, Jordanian Youth Movement Launches Online Petition Against “Constitutional Patches”, Faces Cyber Attack, 8 Sep 2011 "Jordanian youth movement has launched online petition 7erakjo.org rejecting the proposed Jordanian constitutional amendments and in demand for a comprehensive reform."

Jordan e-commerce

arabcrunch.com, Survey: Jordan’s E-Commerce Users Spent Around US$ 192 Million in the Past 12 Months!, 21 Sep 2010

Cyber law

CPJ asks Jordanian king to toss out cyber law - Committee to Protect Journalists: "The Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to defending press freedom worldwide, is deeply concerned about a provisional law on cyber crimes that was approved by the cabinet of ministers on August 3. We believe that the law contains several repressive aspects that can be used to harass online media. The law, if you endorse it through a royal decree, would undermine Jordan's image as a free and open society."

Dawkak tool

Mohamed Marwen Meddah, startuparabia.com, Dakwak: A Tool For Website Localization Into 60+ Languages, 29 Jul 2010 "Dakwak is a new startup that was recently launched from Jordan that aims to provide a solution for website localization into 60+ languages."

Cool tool, nice name and logo too!

d1g.com

David George-Cosh, The National, Jordan portal to dig into Arabic social networking, 22 June 2010 "A Jordanian web portal is planning to tap into the social networking phenomenon by giving its users the tools to create their own version of Facebook.

"The move by d1g.com is designed to boost the amount of Arabic content online. It is estimated that only 1 per cent of all online content is in Arabic, despite there being about 300 million native speakers around the world."

According to my screenshot, cats would appear to be prominent on the mind of d1g.com users today:

Zoofs

arabcrunch.com, Jordanian Founders of Twitter’s Arabic Clone Launch Zoofs: Most Tweeted Youtube Videos eMagazine Site, 2 May 2010, Kareem Arafat and his friends at tootcorp, the mother company that launched around 2 years ago WatWet,Twitter’s Arabic clone- has launched a new online project this time around Twitter it self.

Jordanian censorship

arabcrunch.com, A Tweet, Facebook, a Blog Comment Or Even an “SMS” Can Get You To Prison in Jordan!, 14 Jan 2010 "Yesterday, Jordan’s high appeal court has decided to extend the reach of Jordan’s print and publications law to any electronic medium . The court’s decision, issued last week but published yesterday only today, empowers authorities to prosecute or impose fines on any electronic medium of Publishing from SMS to the Internet user from Twitter user, to facebook, to journalists, bloggers and editors for publishing online material that the law finds wrong."

Queen Rania

Telegraph, Queen Rania, Jordan's virtual queen, 18 Dec 09 "Queen Rania was in Paris earlier this month to speak at Le Web, a conference that brings together some of the world’s smartest technology entrepreneurs. Though she once worked in Apple’s marketing department, Queen Rania is not someone you would expect to find alongside Chad Hurley, the co-founder and CEO of YouTube, and Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s co-founder.

"However, as she delivered her speech - with its key messages compressed into Twitter-friendly 140-word bites - it soon became clear that she understands the real-time web and is using it in her royal duties and her charitable work."

AmmanCIty100

meedan.net, Arabic-English website charts history of Amman for 100 year celebration

"A new bi-lingual website is making an ambitious claim to help increase understanding of Jordanian history."

Details: AmmanCIty100