Ta3leeleh

What is Cultural Economic Development?

“Cultural economic development means leveraging our creative talent, heritage and cultural assets to stimulate, support and enhance economic growth and build community prosperity.” (Michigan, 8)*¹

Ta3leeleh is a grassroot community-based forum that brings people together from around the Kingdom, region and globe to stand at the microphone and share their ideas and interests in front of a supportive audience in a safe and comfortable environment.  Ideas and interests can includes: research papers, philosophies, personal experiences, inventions, topics of interests, speeches, debates, the arts, etc.

Objectives: (by bringing people together we aim to…)

• Engender a value for IDEAS, INTERESTS and ACTION
• Encourage people to share and develop their ideas and interests
• Empower the general public to perceive themselves as thinkers
• Summon Jordanians to expose their hidden skills, ideas and talents
• Expose the public to other’s ideas, interests and experiences and create appreciation
• Promote the status and value of Jordan’s intellects
• Break cultural stereotypes and discrimination
• Create interests groups and communities
• Highlight similarities between communities by discovering their underlying passions
• Build self-empowerment
• Become a cultural and idea incubator
• Strengthen and align Jordan’s national identity

Problem Ta3leeleh Is Addressing:

• Underestimation on the power of ideas and culture
• Hidden, untapped and discourage readers, thinkers and doers
• Widening socio-economic gap that is creating rifts and fragmentations in our national identity (i.e. “East and West Amman, etc.)
• Dangerous and malicious stereotypes among ourselves as well as to the outside world and vice versa