How One Bedouin Well Became a High-security Jordanian Prison

How One Bedouin Well Became a High-security Jordanian Prison

On the foundations of a Bedouin well, a British site for colonial control and surveillance eventually became Al Jafr prison. The site indicates that once built, the architecture of control persists through changing political regimes and modes of domination.

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