Jordan The MERIP Podcast Episode 28: Arran Walshe Today on the MERIP Podcast James Ryan talks with Arran Walshe, a journalist and researcher based in Amman. Walshe is the author of “Alternative Amman–Making Counterculture in the Jordanian Capital,” which appeared in our summer issue of Middle East Report, Art at Work–People, Power and Cultural Production. This James Ryan, Arran Walshe • 1 min read
Jordanian band Ayloul plays at Odeon Theatre in downtown Amman, Jordan, May 2018, at a concert hosted by the European Union National Institutes for Culture. Photo by Arthur Tainturier. Jordan Alternative Amman—Making Counterculture in the Jordanian Capital On a balmy April night in Amman’s Jabal Al-Weibdeh, a DJ was perched on the roof of Zawyeh Space, leaning over a battered mixer as a small crowd of mostly twenty-somethings chatted under the sky. A short walk away at The Village in Jabal Amman, the city’ Arran Walshe • 13 min read
