By Lana Alamat The events of this past Friday in Amman and subsequent reactions have left me not only speechless, a state that people who know me know is rare, but also clueless.  Where do we go from here? Many are now calling for a period of calm pointing to the March 24 movement as evidence [...]

Written by Mohanned If the history of local Jordanian politics has taught us something then, I believe, we are about to witness yet another scapegoat being sacrificed on the regime’s altar. The regional drama that is unfolding around us is putting even more pressure on the regime to take swift action aimed at “stabilizing” the [...]

بقلم لينا شنك كلما قرأت خبرا في الصحف عن الشؤون الداخلية أو الخارجية، أحاول عبثا تفسير ما يجري ولكنني سرعان ما أذكر العبارة الوحيدة التي تعلمتها في سنوات الدراسة الجامعية والتي استفدت منها. أتذكر فورا أن أكثر تعريفات السياسة ملائمة لواقع الحال هو ذاك الذي يقول بأنها لا تعرف الأخلاق ولا القواعد، نهج يسير وفقا [...]

By Lahib Bani Sakher What started as a peaceful day turned out to be one of the most important days of my life, or at last, our lives.  By ‘we’ I mean female Bedouin Jordanians. Yes, if you are a Jordanian and have never came across one of us, then you are not alone, since [...]

By Mohanned “…selling government land to pay off international debt, which Jordan recently did, has saved current and future generations from paying high interest payment on the debt and has made Jordan’s debt rating more attractive for international investment. And again I want to remind people that we have paid off $2.4 billion of our [...]

Photo Courtesy of ForeignMinistry In what was perhaps a first in the Middle East, Jordan’s Foreign Minister, Nasser Judeh, took live questions on Twitter last night, using the hashtag #QFMJO (Questions for Foreign Minister of Jordan). Considered one of the first Jordanian officials to join the popular microblogging site, Judeh has frequently engaged fellow Jordanian [...]

Written by Farida Farouk. It is March 2040 and Rana Al Salem, 55, has just been appointed Jordan’s Interior Minister. She’s about to address the people to explain why she had accepted a post that as a young woman she’d always dreamed of. Rana’s office is in the greater Amman municipality, an area which was [...]

Written by: Mohanned Oh what a mess! The first couple of months for the “new” government have been anything but a calm sail! The absence of the parliament shifted all the eyes and, more importantly, fingers towards the appointed government. Soon, I expect, fingers will be pointing higher, albeit indirectly. The existence of a futile [...]