• Jordan

    First Impressions of Amman

    I arrived in Jordan in the middle of the Arab Spring, during a time filled with uncertainty for the future of the region. All the reports I was reading on the news were predicting that Jordan would be next after Tunisia to erupt in chaos and, while I didn’t think too much of the headlines before leaving, I couldn’t quite shake the unsettling feeling in the pit of my stomach during my flight from the United States. As soon as I arrived in Amman, however, I started to feel differently. The people…