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 [...]

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 [...]

By Daoud Kuttab The visitor from Washington, who represented an independent democracy foundation, asked two questions to a group of Jordanian intellectuals: “Where do you see the potential for genuine reform in Jordan and the Arab region? If we were to fund any particular group which would it be? As expected, initial responses focused on [...]

بقلم لينا شنك* نحن بالفعل نعيش بـ”خصوصية أردنية”، وليست بالضرورة تلك العبارة التي يرددها الناطقون الرسميون باسم الحكومة في كل مرة يرصد تقرير حقوقي تراجعا في الأردن، بل هي خصوصية تتجلى في التناقضات العجيبة التي نعايشها في كل يوم. فحتى وان عقد المتفائلون بالإصلاح الأمل على 373 ألف ناخب جديد، لا يسعنا أن نفكر بما [...]

By Lina Shannak Anyone who knows very little about Jordanian politics can tell that Jordanians are obsessed with “foreign agendas” and tend to believe that they are targeted by conspiracies from every state of the world. They can praise your patriotism if you implement the policies that preserve their short-term interests, but if you take [...]

بيان المتقاعدين العسكريين: جزء من خطة العكازتين أم إنقلابٌ عليها؟ بقلم موسى الشقيري بعد قيام ما يسمى جمعية منتفعي الجيش المتقاعدين بتوسيع مهماتها من إستيراد الألعاب النارية واستقدام عاملات المنازل إلى التدخل في مواضيع الملكية الدستورية وسحب الجنسية والمحاصصة والصواريخ بعيدة المدى، نكون قد وصلنا إلى مرحلة خرج فيها موضوع “أردني-فلسطيني” رسمياً من إطار الفئة [...]

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 [...]

By: Michael May An astounding event occurred Wednesday, one that proves how much has changed regarding American perception of Israel. During a television interview focused on the ever-contentious Israeli-Palestinian issue, a member of the show’s audience was ejected from the studio after interrupting the session multiple times by screaming personal objections to comments given by [...]

Fifteen years ago King Hussein became the second Arab leader to sign a peace agreement with Israel, taking criticism from many sides, but also being heavily rewarded with US financial and political support. 15 years later, we ask, what has the Wadi Araba peace agreement done for Jordan? Have we benefited from the agreement? The [...]

Written by Farah Mehdawi. I have certainly not been expecting Obama to pull the rabbit out of the hat and surprise us all with some solution that could push forward the peace process, especially after winning the Nobel Prize. While the world is dazzled with Obama’s magical tunes with promises of peace, prosperity and a [...]