Review of Human Rights under the Jordanian Constitution
This review aims to measure the reality of human rights under the Jordanian Constitution; human rights in Jordan are improving, since Jordan is considered one of the most democratic States in the Middle East. Human rights remain a subject of concern inside and outside any State. The review also intent to identify the Jordanian history, a review of its governmental structure, and the 1952 revision of the Jordanian Constitution with particular reference to human rights provisions. In addition to that, the review point to identify and analyze the Constitutionally-guaranteed human rights under the Jordanian Constitution. Jordan was one of the first States in the Middle East to establish a national human rights institution (NHRI) such as, The National Centre for Human Rights (NCHR), for that reason, the review will deliver in details the human rights institutions and the emergence of human rights in Jordan. The review also addresses the major International Conventions to which Jordan is a party.
Colonial Effects: The Making of National Identity in Jordan
IntroductionLaw, Military, and DisciplineTradition and ModernityHistorical MomentsPart I: Codifying the Nation: Law and the Articulation of National Identity in Jordan The Prehistory of Juridical PostcolonialityNational TimeNational SpaceNational Territory and PaternityNationalizing Non-NationalsLosing Nationality: The Law Giveth and the Law Taketh AwayWomen and ChildrenPart II: Different Spaces as Different Times: Law and Geography in Jordanian Nationalism Different Species of Citizens: Women and BedouinsBedouins and National CitizenshipNationalist Tribalism or Tribalist Nationalism: The DebateJordanian Culture in an International FrameWomen Between the Public and Private SpheresWomen in PublicWomen and PoliticsPart III: Cultural Syncretism or Colonial Mimic Men: Jordan's Bedouins and the Military Basis of National Identity The Bedouin ChoiceCultural Imperialism and DisciplineCultural Cross-Dressing as EpistemologyImperialism as EducatorMasculinity, Culture, and WomenTransforming the BedouinsPersuasion, Education, and SurveillancePart IV: Nationalizing the Military: Colonial Legacy as National Heritage Anticolonial Nationalism and the ArmyKing Husayn and the Nationalist OfficersClash of the Titans: Glubb Pasha and the Uneasy King"Arabizing" the Jordanian ArmyThe Palace Coup and the End of an EraPalace Repression and the Forgiving KingPalestinians and the MilitaryThreatening the Nation's Masculinity and Religious "Tradition"The Military and the New JordanColonial or National LegacyPart V: The Nation as an Elastic Entity: The Expansion and Contraction of Jordan Expanding the Nation: The Road to AnnexationThe Jericho ConferenceThe New JordanPalestinians and the West BankCompeting Representatives: The PLO and JordanToward Civil WarA New Nationalist EraClothes, Accents, and Football: Asserting Post-Civil War JordaniannessContracting the Nation: The Road to "The Severing of Ties"Who Is Jordanian?Concluding Remarks
Sororicide/Filiacide: Homicide for Family Honour [and Comments and Reply]
Homicide of patrilateral kin on the justification of "restoring the family honour" is here differentiated from other assaults on family members. It is also distinguished from vendetta, which, though aimed at the restoration of family honour, affects strangers. This study outlines the social characteristics of the instances of homicide, attempted homicide, and forced suicide for family honour that occurred in Israel between May 1973 and December 1978. The findings disclose a systematic subjection of the custom to a normative code. It is largely limited to Arab Muslims. Murder by kin is here a consequence of forbidden sexual associations that impinge on a group's esteem. The sensitivity of the groups to their daughters' propriety is a matter of honour not in an absolute sense, but in concrete reference to groups above or below them on the social scale. The killing is, moreover, not a mere punitive response, but a consequence of a shift in the kin group's position on the social ladder; with social mobility the response becomes more stringent. Mobility increases the vulnerability of females, as the tightening control over their movements includes those made in the past that until then had been ignored. Sororicide/filiacide for family honour is here identified as sui generis. It reflects neither structures of personality nor the social superstructure, but the social infrastrusture-the hierarchy of patrilineal kin groups within their Gemeinschaft setting.