By sheer accident, I sat over lunch next to Mr Ghiath Sukhtian and his wife Nadia Abdulhadi-Sukhtian. As our conversation extended, I found out that this impressive lady is fluent not only in Arabic, but also in both English and German.

We need a serious strategic change in our economic model or paradigm in Jordan.

Now that the 2018 State Budget Law has passed in both the Lower House and the Upper House, it is ready for the ratification and publication in the Official Gazette.Its ratification means that the new government policy is directing subsidy of bread to qualified Jordanian consumers

The pile of challenging issues on His Majesty King Abdullah's desk is mounting, at the bottom of which are the issues which the social media is busy writing about.

If you ask an ordinary news addict to name the most important events of 2017, he or she will point to elections in major countries like Germany, Japan, Austria, Iran, etc… . He may cite the rise of young people to power in Saudi Arabia, Austria, France other than Canada.

The Great Wall of China was built thousands of years ago to prevent China’s enemies from entering. Well, they did as mentioned in historical references three or four times.

After the unsurprising announcement of President Donald Trump on Wednesday, December 6, 2017, of his decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and issue an executive order to start procedures to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the Arab and

The phone rings and a woman’s voice comes up, “are you Mr so and so”? Once you acknowledge that you are so and so, a barrage of wishes and prayers fills your space.

Those who spend their childhood in Amman learnt beautiful lessons. There are no long flat distances. The 1950s Amman was an athlete-breeding city.