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    Edward Said’s ‘Orientalism’: Academic Scholarship, Policymaking, and Colonized Minds

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    Orientalism: A distorted perception of “the other”

    July 18, 2022July 18, 2022
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    At the East of West’s Ego

    July 18, 2022
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    The confirmation bias

    July 18, 2022
Alternative Narrative

Edward Said’s ‘Orientalism’: Academic Scholarship, Policymaking, and Colonized Minds

July 18, 2022July 18, 2022
Alternative Narrative

Orientalism: A distorted perception of “the other”

July 18, 2022July 18, 2022
Alternative Narrative

At the East of West’s Ego

July 18, 2022
Alternative Narrative

Edward Said’s ‘Orientalism’: Academic Scholarship, Policymaking, and Colonized Minds

July 18, 2022July 18, 20225 min read
Alternative Narrative

Orientalism: A distorted perception of “the other”

July 18, 2022July 18, 20226 min read
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At the East of West’s Ego

July 18, 20226 min read
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The confirmation bias

July 18, 20226 min read
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Do biased affect our decision making process?

July 18, 20226 min read
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Strengthened institutions, empowered people, and enhanced opportunities

July 18, 2022July 18, 20225 min read
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What is Cognitive Bias?

July 18, 2022July 18, 20226 min read
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How we judge people: fundamental attribution error in dept

July 18, 20226 min read
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Non violent communication

July 18, 2022July 18, 20226 min read
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Edward Said’s ‘Orientalism’: Academic Scholarship, Policymaking, and Colonized Minds
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Edward Said’s ‘Orientalism’: Academic Scholarship, Policymaking, and Colonized Minds

July 18, 2022July 18, 20225 min read

In 1978, Palestinian-American scholar Edward Said changed the discourse around the West Asia and North Africa (WANA) region forever when he published his book ‘Orientalism’.

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Orientalism: A distorted perception of “the other”
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Orientalism: A distorted perception of “the other”

July 18, 2022July 18, 20226 min read

“Arabs, for example, are thought of as camel-riding, terroristic, hook-nosed, venal lechers whose undeserved wealth is an affront to real civilization.” – Edward Said Orientalism

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At the East of West’s Ego
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At the East of West’s Ego

July 18, 20226 min read

In 1978, the Palestinian-American professor and writer Edward Said published his work Orientalism, that sparked an everlasting debate on the topic. In his book, he

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The confirmation bias
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The confirmation bias

July 18, 20226 min read

“What we see depends mainly on what we look for” – John Lubbock  The confirmation bias is a type of cognitive bias. It is the

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Do biased affect our decision making process?
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Do biased affect our decision making process?

July 18, 20226 min read

“One way or another we are all biased, but still we have the modern cortical capacity to choose whether or not to let the harmful

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Strengthened institutions, empowered people, and enhanced opportunities
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Strengthened institutions, empowered people, and enhanced opportunities

July 18, 2022July 18, 20225 min read

The UN Jordan Sustainable Development Framework 2018-2022 When one studies political reports of Jordanian institutions like ministries, one sometimes stumbles upon acronyms starting with the

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What is Cognitive Bias?
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What is Cognitive Bias?

July 18, 2022July 18, 20226 min read

As humans, sometimes we think irrationally. The ways we act, we treat other people, we make decisions may be influenced by some peculiar processes that

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How we judge people: fundamental attribution error in dept
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How we judge people: fundamental attribution error in dept

July 18, 20226 min read

What causes injustice and stereotypes? They can happen for countless factors, but what no one knows is that cognitive bias can be one of the

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Non violent communication
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Non violent communication

July 18, 2022July 18, 20226 min read

“All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to

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The art of living well
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The art of living well

July 18, 2022July 18, 20226 min read

Every person pursues happiness in their life. But some people argue that happiness is just a fleeting feeling, and what we really want to pursue

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Culture is to be lived and to be learned
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Culture is to be lived and to be learned

June 6, 20226 min read

Very often we hear about celebrities, TV shows or, in general, people in the public eye being called out for Cultural Appropriation.  It happens when

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Cultural Appropriation in Times of Rising Islamophobia in France
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Cultural Appropriation in Times of Rising Islamophobia in France

June 6, 20225 min read

In January, Vogue France faced heavy criticism from Social Media users after posting a picture of model and actress Julia Fox to their Instagram feed.

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Towards a Circular Water Sector
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Towards a Circular Water Sector

June 6, 20225 min read

Water Scarcity Around the Globe: Reasons, Issues and Consequences Today, water scarcity – the limited access to much needed water – affects four billion people

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What is media bias?
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What is media bias?

June 6, 20226 min read

Over the past half decade, the legitimacy of the mainstream media has become a central theme of our political discourse. Some of this as of

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What are the environmental challenges for Jordan?
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What are the environmental challenges for Jordan?

June 6, 20225 min read

The Middle East, like much of the world, is getting hotter, the already hot and dry climate is changing rapidly and it’s raining less.  People

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Appreciation or Appropriation?
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Appreciation or Appropriation?

May 31, 20226 min read

Exploring the concept of cultural appropriation and its consequences  “It’s about understanding the value and traditions of the symbols that are appropriated to ensure that

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How Jordan Faces its Environmental Challenges
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How Jordan Faces its Environmental Challenges

May 31, 20226 min read

The climate crisis is leaving its marks in many parts of the world, and we are already facing many challenges related to it. Harsh winters,

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Reviving Al Hima: Combating Desertification in Jordan through Traditional Rangeland Management
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Reviving Al Hima: Combating Desertification in Jordan through Traditional Rangeland Management

May 31, 20226 min read

Drylands – arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas – cover 46.2 % of the global land and are home to 3 billion people. They result

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There is no Planet B
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There is no Planet B

May 31, 20226 min read

“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children”, Native American Proverb  The picture above dates back to the

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The damaging impact of blind trust in pictures?
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The damaging impact of blind trust in pictures?

May 31, 20226 min read

It has long been hailed that “a picture is worth a thousand words” and in February this year, there was no finer example of this

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Yet another Call for Justice: Context in a Picture
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Yet another Call for Justice: Context in a Picture

May 31, 2022May 31, 20226 min read

The image: Muhammed El-Kurd at the UN General Assembly, United Nations Photo, 29 Nov 2021. A young man holds a speech. At first sight, this

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When Photos Can Make a Change…
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When Photos Can Make a Change…

May 31, 2022May 31, 20226 min read

“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera”, Dorothea Lange, Los Angeles Times (13 Aug. 1978) Photographs today make up

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Inside the water emergency in Jordan
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Inside the water emergency in Jordan

May 31, 20225 min read

As established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2010, water and sanitation are fundamental rights for every human being. This means that every human

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Social conformity versus freedom
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Social conformity versus freedom

May 31, 20226 min read

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth”, John F. Kennedy  Recent research in applied psychology have established that making people aware

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An introduction to Social Conformity
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An introduction to Social Conformity

May 31, 20226 min read

Our social interactions shape us in ways that we cannot even imagine. As humans, it comes naturally relying on other people when we must express

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Water Wars
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Water Wars

May 31, 2022May 31, 20226 min read

Water is not a given, and neither is peace. Since without water, what are we? “It runs through our veins, bodies, water faucets, and rivers.

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Youth in Jordan
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Youth in Jordan

May 31, 20225 min read

“Every day is full of challenges and full of hope”: Young women in Jordan share their struggles. Jordanian society is young. Around 36% of the

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Being young in 2022: what are the challenges and how not to lose hope
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Being young in 2022: what are the challenges and how not to lose hope

May 31, 20225 min read

Although youth is a wonderful stage in our life, being young has always had its challenges. Youth means growing up, learning, experiencing a lot of

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A picture is worth a thousand words but means nothing with incorrect context
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A picture is worth a thousand words but means nothing with incorrect context

May 31, 20225 min read

“A picture is worth a thousand words”, a clliché term, but one that holds weight. However, without words to explain who, what, why or when,

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Article 4: Security Considerations and Intent to Commit Apartheid 
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Article 4: Security Considerations and Intent to Commit Apartheid 

May 11, 2022April 19, 202210 min read

The Ongoing Realities of Aparthied in the 21st Century: A summary of Amnesty International’s report “Israel’s Apartheid against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime

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