Up to this very point in our fight against the coronavirus, most Jordanians feel confident that the country will eventually win the war against this pandemic, and win it well.

The coronavirus, COVID 19, is a real threat both globally and nationally, but it is also a test and an opportunity.We do not know everything yet about this nasty virus, but the little we know so far calls upon all of us to give the matter utmost seriousness, and follow government

Once upon a time, democratic systems worldwide did their best to cater to the needs of the people. At this point in time, only a handful of systems in the world can lay claim to this noble ideal.

In the 1980s and 1990s, much of the talk was about preparing ourselves for a "changing" world.

Almost everything I read in our part of the world about the Trump administration's so-called "Deal of the Century," since its announcement on January 28, is either dismissive of it or derisive.So much is wrong with it on so many counts.First of all, it was put together without du

His Majesty King Abdullah's passionate address to the European Parliament on January 15 was delivered with the aim of conveying several timely messages.A most urgent one, in my opinion, is the appeal for Europeans to act.Act on what?Act on two crucial issues, and on two fronts.Th

During the first half of the past century, and in some cases even earlier, the Arab world was plagued with colonisation, when most Arab countries were physically occupied by major European powers, primarily France, Britain and Italy.Luckily, and after a great deal of resistance,

The more you read and the more you talk to people in our society about major challenges facing them in their line of work, the more convinced you become that they are more or less the same challenges.Such challenges cannot all be addressed here, but here are the four fundamental

In the news, we read a report about the US House of Representatives passing a resolution "breaking with Trump on Israel policy".The details tell us that the resolution backs "a two-state solution to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, following initiatives from US P