A lawyer mentioned in conversation recently that the number of Jordanian lawyers who know another language well enough to be able to, not necessarily draft a contract, but understand one in that language is about 250.

The years I spent studying in Paris were a valuable learning experience in more ways than one. I stayed at halls of residence that housed many Arab graduate students, so naturally we got together and had political discussions, as students abroad tend to.

It is not every day that one finds happy and inspiring news from the Middle East, but today I take this rare opportunity to add my voice to those who rightfully applaud Lebanese Judge Joceline Matta — Arabic for Mathew — for setting a very important legal precedent in contemporar

In his autobiography ‘The Moon’s a Balloon’, actor David Niven paraphrased a Chinese proverb that when the lawns are manicured, the hedges trimmed and the garden is in full bloom, a weed raises its head.

Ask any Jordanian to recommend a good tradesman to you and, ten to one, you will be told that there are not any.

Not long ago, a dear friend of mine introduced me as the only person he knows who lives by his passion.

Who among us remembers the Iranian revolution of 1979?  It started off as secular poetry readings and protests against the enormous gap that developed between rich and poor, brought about by Iran’s colossal oil revenues during the boom years.  Social tensions were exace

On April 4, 1968, American Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King was killed for suggesting that people should be judged by the content of their hearts not the colour of their skin. The following day, a school teacher named Jane Elliott, from Riceville Iowa tried to explain

An age-old problem is that every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world and of the petulance and insolence of the young.  Even Socrates, in all his wisdom, lamented that “Children now love luxury.