http://dir.salon.com/topics/jordan/?source=rss&aim=jordan en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT By Joanne Mariner Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/04/10/jordan_rendition/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/04/10/jordan_rendition/index.html?source=rss A harrowing account from a man the CIA handed over to Jordan -- smuggled from prison on tiny paper -- exposes U.S. complicity in torture. By Mark Benjamin Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/12/14/bashmilah/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/12/14/bashmilah/index.html?source=rss A Yemeni man never charged by the U.S. details 19 months of brutality and psychological torture -- the first in-depth, first-person account from inside the secret U.S. prisons. A Salon exclusive. By Riverbend Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/09/21/riverbend_leaving/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/09/21/riverbend_leaving/index.html?source=rss As we crossed the Syrian border and saw the last of the Iraqi flags, the tears began. How can such a small distance separate life from death? Page Rockwell Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/12/08/middle_east/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/12/08/middle_east/index.html?source=rss Surprise -- the U.N. say Middle Eastern countries are slacking off when it comes to gender equality. By Katharine Mieszkowski Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/09/10/noor/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/09/10/noor/index.html?source=rss The Kesbeh family were called the Palestinian Cleavers when they were deported to Jordan after 9/11. Now living in dire conditions, they are determined to get back to the U.S., the only place they call home. By Juan Cole Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/06/27/zarqawi/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/06/27/zarqawi/index.html?source=rss Bush's Mideast policies have turned a brutal terrorist into an icon of resistance -- and made violent fundamentalism more popular. By Shahnaz Taplin Chinoy Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/06/13/arab_women/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/06/13/arab_women/index.html?source=rss While some Arab women embrace the rise of Islamist political parties, others fear they could end up groaning under Taliban-like regimes. By Michelle Goldberg Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/05/14/palestinians/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/05/14/palestinians/index.html?source=rss After years of special treatment under Saddam, Palestinians in Iraq are getting a brutal postwar payback. By Michelle Goldberg Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/05/13/no_mans_land/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/05/13/no_mans_land/index.html?source=rss A group of Iranian Kurds, who endured more than 20 years in a squalid Iraq refugee camp, are now squatting in a no man's land on the Jordanian border -- and threatening mass suicide if they are not resettled. By Eric Boehlert Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/04/04/arab/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/04/04/arab/index.html?source=rss While Qatar welcomes Uncle Sam, Egyptian police torture antiwar protesters. If the war lasts long, some say, the scales may tip toward rage. By Ferry Biedermann Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/02/07/jordan/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/02/07/jordan/index.html?source=rss The Arab street that once rallied for Iraq is strangely quiet, although anger and frustration sometimes boil up. By Eric Boehlert Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/01/22/iraq_doom/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/01/22/iraq_doom/index.html?source=rss Chemical weapons, civil war and Arab rage could turn an invasion into a disaster. By Eric Boehlert Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/10/17/zinni/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/10/17/zinni/index.html?source=rss Hawks in the Bush administration may be making deadly miscalculations on Iraq, says Gen. Anthony Zinni, Bush's Middle East envoy. By Noah Sudarsky Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/07/25/sharon/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/07/25/sharon/index.html?source=rss The assassination of a Hamas chief -- along with many civilians -- reveals the prime minister's pathological fear that giving anything to the Palestinians will mean the end of Israel. By Amy Reiter Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/col/reit/2000/08/18/npfri/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/col/reit/2000/08/18/npfri/index.html?source=rss Keeping her clothes on, the banished Jordan takes the high, boring road; Uma Thurman dives for body parts. Plus: Naked Daryl Hannah to make a splash in England, and Eminem shows his wife the door. By Rolf Potts Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/travel/diary/pott/2000/05/09/aqaba/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/travel/diary/pott/2000/05/09/aqaba/index.html?source=rss Armed only with curiosity and a stained pair of pants, our correspondent tries to make sense of the Islamic Feast of the Sacrifice in Aqaba, Jordan. By Nina Donaghy Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/11/24/foreign/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/11/24/foreign/index.html?source=rss President Clinton has little time left to improve his standing in history. Could foreign affairs, especially a negotiated peace in the Middle East, offer him a chance for salvation? By Geraldine Brooks Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1999/02/09/feature/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1999/02/09/feature/index.html?source=rss World leaders rush to pay tribute to King Hussein, but his widow, Queen Noor, deserves much of the credit for Jordan's transformation from police state to cradle of political freedom. By Jonathan Broder Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1998/07/28/news/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1998/07/28/news/index.html?source=rss In one sign of the cost of to the Lewinsky scandal, Clinton has caved into the Israeli government and abandoned the peace process in the Middle East By Jonathan Broder Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1998/02/23/news/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1998/02/23/news/index.html?source=rss The U.S. can't "go all the way" in Iraq because Saddam Hussein's neighbors need to keep him around. By Maxine Rose Schur Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/travel/feature/1997/11/26/feature/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/travel/feature/1997/11/26/feature/index.html?source=rss Maxine Rose Schur discovers that at dusk, after the tourists have left, Jordan's ancient ruin comes to splendid life. By Jonathan Broder Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1997/10/07/news/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1997/10/07/news/index.html?source=rss It is being called the worst fiasco in the history of Israel's once-vaunted intelligence service, the Mossad. It raises, once again, serious questions about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's mental fitness, provoked unprecedented expressions of disgust from the Clinton administration and left experienced observers to wonder what other disastrous pratfalls the Israeli leader has in store for the dying Middle East peace process. By Jonathan Broder Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1996/04/06/montana/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1996/04/06/montana/index.html?source=rss Mindful of the fatalities and public relations disasters resulting from the Waco and Ruby Ridge sieges, federal authorities have adopted a low-key approach to the standoff with the so-called "Freemen".