University sexual harassment sparks national conversation

Inappropriate messages, flirtatious comments and physical sexual harassment – the allegations against a professor at the Jordan University of Science and Technology began as a trickle but quickly turned into a deluge, first online, and then on national media, writes Hanna Davis for Al Jazeera.

#TechnoHarrasser – as the case became known – went viral at the start of June and eventually led to the physics professor’s suspension from work, and a referral to Jordan’s prosecutor general’s office for further investigation.

The case has shocked Jordanians, both because of the number of students who decided to share their accounts of alleged sexual harassment by the professor, but also because it has led to a wider debate about the prevalence of sexual harassment in Jordanian society.
Full report on the Al Jazeera site