Indian fashion model Pooja Mor graces the pages of Love Want Magazine #23 Fall 2021., captured on film in Jordan in July 2021. Marzia Fassati styles the shoot in images by Fleur Bult [IG], presumably in Wadi Rum Desert, based on Pooja Mor’s IG. Love Want’s ‘Here & Now’ issue places Mor on Jordanian soil, at the crossroads of the continents of Asia, Africa and Europe. / Makeup by Mary Cesardi

AOC notes the far greater visibility of Jordanian men in the images, compared to women. With a female literacy rate of 97.4%, Jordanian women are also highly-educated. Yet, this national treasure of educated females is 86 percent absent from the work force — and, therefore, absent from the public sphere.

The New York Times did an in-depth article on Jordanian women in April 2021.

In fall 2019, Amnesty International called on Jordan to end what it has described as an abusive system that jails women if they disobey their male “guardians” or have relationships deemed inappropriate. In a new report :

“The Jordanian government should urgently address these shameful violations that national women’s organizations have been battling for decades, starting with the zealous use of detention powers by provincial governors, and the discriminatory male guardianship system that allows adult women to be arrested for leaving home without permission,” said Heba Morayef, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa.