شهدت الأردن ارتفاعا دراماتيكيا في الاستثمار الأجنبي المباشر في السنوات القليلة الماضية. منذ حرب العراق، قفزت الأردن من المرتبة ال 146 من 192 دولة بالنسبة للاستثمارات الأجنبية، إلى المرتبة السابعة عام 2007 و من ثم السادسة في 2008.

في عام 2008 فقط، اجتذبت الاستثمارات الأجنبية 1.376 بليون دينار أردني، مما يعني أن متوسط الاستثمارات بلغ ال 344 مليون دينار كل فصل …

Over the next six years, if things work out as municipal planners hope, the entire way downtown Amman works will change — for the better. Here are some details on the grand plan.

Written by Nicholas Seeley. Provided by JO Magazine.
UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF HE Mayor Omar Maani, the Greater Amman Municipality has embarked on an ambitious plan for development …

One is forced to ask themselves why the would police approve a permit that closes one of the busiest areas of Amman during mid-morning.
Video by Naseem.

This is a response to an editorial published in the Jordan Times newspaper by a tourist who recently visited Jordan.
Dear A.H. Ekker,
First of all, thank you for sharing your opinion. I specifically appreciate the token “in Jordan people are very friendly and hospitable” as a introduction to your critique of exactly how Jordanian are not friendly and not hospitable.
Thanks …

The WEF is nothing more than another local and international intensive PR campaign, and the media is more than happy to play along


Written by Musa al-Shuqairi
If hundreds of rich “people” blabber for three straight days and there is no one to report it, do they make any sound? It is no secret that the media has been an integral part …

Interview with Samir Amin by Hassan Zanind.
Samir Amin is the president of the “Forum Mondial des Alternatives”, a network of intellectuals of the so-called “Third World”. In this interview he takes a critical look at globalization and power politics

The relationship between capitalistic globalization and democracy is contradictory, Samir Amin asserts.
Your forty-year-old intellectual project tries to provide a critical analysis of …

Nima Abu Wardeh is the Middle East business reporter for the BBC. She is also the founder of MZone, a media content provider and consultancy service, specializing in media and business issues related to the Arabworld. She was interviewd by, Heather Kitt, from the Global changemakers program. Kitt is a young youth expert, who works for the Red Cross International …

Rabbi Awraham Soetendorp, the President of Soetendorp Institute for Human Values, Netherlands , shared with two of the Global changemakers, Abrar Ebada, an Egyptian peace and human rights activist, and Ibrahim Al Bastaki, an active member in his community in UAE, his views on the need for peace in the Middle East.
Rabbi Soetendorp believes that young people in both Israel …

Mr. Sharif Zu’bi, Minister of Industry and Trade in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. He also served as the Minister of Justice (2006-2007).  Zu’bi graduated from the University of Bristol in Commercial Law. He is a senior partner at Ali Sharif Zu’bi Advocates and Legal Consultants.
Muamar Al-Khalayleh, a Jordanian participant at the Global Changemakers program and a firm believer in …

Dr Khaled Toukan, is the head of the Jordan Atomic Energy. He is also known to be as one of the best Ministers of Education for the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. He served as Minister of Higher Education (2001-2002). Dr. Toukan’s academic career includes the position of President of Al-Balqa Applied University (1997-2001, a Research Scientist at Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe, and …