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Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to Rana Sweis, a journalist and writer based in Amman, about developments involving King Abudllah II's half brother, who says he's been placed under house arrest.

The 82-year-old playwright says he thought he was done writing about South Africa after apartheid ended — but there were more stories in him, like this tale of a farmer who paints his life on rocks.

It's happened across the Middle East — and now it's happening in Jordan. The country's government has cracked down on news and other Internet sites. A new law requires those sites to be registered with the government and have a member of Jordan's press council on staff. Some are calling it another form of censorship.

Jordan, who died Aug. 11, was a teen when she first heard a Charlie Parker recording. Later she became part of the jazz scene in Detroit and New York City. Originally broadcast in 1981 and 1988.

Despite some unexpected gear problems, the soulful R&B artist and his band locked-in and played a phenomenal set behind the Tiny Desk.

The government says free expression can combat radicalization. Yet a military court recently sentenced a man to 18 months in prison for a Facebook post deemed insulting to the United Arab Emirates.

The public will get a chance to weigh in on Sunoco’s plan to clean up a lake in a popular Chester County state park. StateImpact Pennsylvania’s Rachel McDevitt reports.

Judy Jordan is the second poet to read her work as part of All Things Considered's series for National Poetry month. Jordan was born to a family of sharecroppers in North Carolina and her poetry comes from that experience. Her first book won the Walt Whitman prize (4:00) Jordan's book, Carolina Ghost Woods, is published by Louisiana State University Press, ISBN # 0807125563. You can also visit our feature page about Jordan, which provides the text for her poem, as well as extra information about her.

International aid agencies bracing for a flow of refugees out of Iraq see the opposite. Officials in Jordan say few are leaving Iraq. Instead, thousands of Iraqi exiles are leaving Jordan to return home. NPR's Jackie Northam reports.

An American labor group has investigated conditions in Jordanian garment factories and says that foreign workers are being enslaved in sweatshops. Under a free-trade agreement with the U.S., the factories are producing items for Target, L.L. Bean and other major American retailers.