The Friday before last I was at a demon­stra­tion in West Amman, the wealthier section of Amman, far from the layers of boxy concrete buildings that carpet East Amman, with its camps and its poverty. There were at least 100 unarmed riot police and perhaps 200 pro­test­ers and another 40 jour­nal­ists observing the activ­i­ties. That […]