Author: Yazan Ashqar

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Street scene in Amman (photo: picture-alliance/AA)

Cultural shift in Jordan

A slow awakening

What is causing the generational conflict in Amman? Two poles are currently in the process of emerging, pitting a new independent cultural identity against a politicised rural and Bedouin one. By Yazan AshqarMore

″Naqsh″ – the Arabic cultural cafe: Amman's bridge buildersArt and design in Jordan: A facelift for Amman's artisanal businessesProtests in Jordan: "The status quo has to go"

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Forced removals: it's estimated that 8,000 refugees live in Bihac. The camps are overcrowded and every day there is talk of burglaries. There was a stabbing in front of the kindergarten. Next to Camp Bira, there were about 500 people not registered with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). In mid-June police picked them up and drove them to a site called Vucjak

The inhumanity of Bosniaʹs Vucjak refugee camp

Within eyeshot of the Bosnian-Croatian border, thousands of refugees are camping in squalor on a former garbage site. Their supplies are scarce. Photographer Dirk Planert was among them