Osama Al Sharif, a Jordanian political commentator and journalist, writes in Al Monitor about the reform process in Jordan, suggesting that the crisis in Syria has been a catalyst for Jordan to focus on economic, not political, reform and security.
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"Stephanie Sinclair has mostly happy memories of her childhood in Miami, where she grew up encouraged by her parents to be carefree, confident and defiant. It was there, in an elementary school broadcast arts program, that she requested to be a camera operator, offering the first inkling of what she would do with her life.
Today, she is one of National Geographic’s conflict photojournalists, one of about a dozen women among the magazine’s 60 freelance photographers."
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Have you ever heard of Alif the Unseen, computer hacker and recipient of an ancient scroll written by mythological spirits?
Or Ajwan, a teenager on an intergalactic quest to save her son from the clutches of those who wish to convert him into a super-warrior?
Probably you haven't. Possibly you should have. Introducing the rapidly evolving face of Arabic science fiction literature.
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