Daily Archives: June 13, 2012

11 posts

Amani: Great expectations

“I want to love what I do,” says Amani, a 29-year-old Jordanian woman intent on having a career and being a wife and mother. She’s also watchful of the quest for freedom in the Middle East. “It might take 10 years, 20 years, 50 years,” she says, “but this is […]

Whatever happened to the ‘Arab Spring’?

Since early 2011, protests and full-scale revolts have brought down governments in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya, and shaken others in Yemen, Bahrain and beyond. Syria slides toward all-out civil war. But has real freedom arrived anywhere — even in the Arab societies that have experienced relatively peaceful transitions toward some […]

Just the Facts

“Just the Facts, Ma’am, just the facts!”  Sergeant Joe Friday was his name and all that mattered to him were just the facts. He was not interested in hear say, just the facts. Sometime the facts aren’t what we like to hear but facts are facts and we can’t change […]