Deena Dajani is a fellow of the Oecumene project and post-doctoral researcher at the Open University. Her work explores dramatic cultural traditions in the Arab world and how they can be understood to perform politically.
The author encounters a plethora of narrations that examine in the most beautifully chaotic of ways the reluctant hope and the lingering pain that sediment within the word, ‘revolution’.
The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is far from being a democratic state in the western sense, but the condition of political liberty in the country in recent decades compares favourably