Government officials and experts alike reject U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal Saturday that Jordan and Egypt accept 1.5 million Palestinian refugees from Gaza. Officials compared the unprecedented suggestion to “ethnic cleansing” as the terms of the ceasefire allowed displaced residents to return to their homes in northern Gaza. Days earlier, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio halted foreign aid to all recipients—with the exception of Egypt and Israel.

Jordan observed the International Day of the Eradication of Poverty amid economic and political crises and a projected rise in poverty rates.

As the last day of Ramadan unfolds in Amman, the air is thick with the hum of anticipation and the bittersweet realization that another month of fasting and prayer has come to an end.

As commercial bulldozers and upscale coffee shops invade West Oakland, on the corner of San Pablo and West Grand avenue, there remains a plot of land embodying the fight against gentrification: Qilombo. A radical community social center that offers a space for meetings, gatherings, educational workshops and classes, and celebrations for its surrounding community, Qilombo’s website states that it “provides public space to all peoples during these times of intensive gentrification, systemic oppres...