His Majesty King Abdullah is pinning high hopes on the next parliamentary elections due to be held on September 20, and wants the government to do all that it can to render them successful. In this respect, the King’s priorities and the people’s priorities are one and the sa

The results of this summer’s General Secondary Education Certificate Examination (Tawjihi) continue to stir debate among students and parents alike. The National Campaign for Defending Students’ Rights (Thabahtoona) has taken issue with the Ministry of Education over the low

The final communiqué of the 27th Arab Summit is disappointing to say the least. This disappointment comes as no surprise, since most of the results of previous Arab summits have been the same. The decisions of the attending Arab leaders or their representatives paid lip

His Majesty King Abdullah’s address to the 27th Arab Summit in Nouakchott delivered on his behalf by Prime Minister Hani Mulki was straight talk. The King’s words first touched upon the future of the Arab League and other pan-Arab institutions.

This summer’s General Secondary Education Certificate Examination’s (Tawjihi) results confirmed two remarkable achievements.

The Greater Amman Municipality’s (GAM) decision to allocate some of its own land for use as free parking spaces, especially in the capital’s heavily congested areas, is a commendable step.GAM has said it is allocating land it owns, including areas near Abdoun, Medina Munwarah Str

This year’s Jerash Festival for Culture and Arts opened on July 21 to great enthusiasm and joy, bringing together artists and poets from Arab and foreign lands. Amman Mayor Aqel Biltaji, the president of the festival’s higher committee, said at the opening ceremony that hold

The grisly beheading of a 12-year-old boy in a rebel held area of Aleppo shown in a video released this week has been met with outrage and condemnation across the political spectrum in Syria as well as in the entire region. The footage of the barbaric decapitation of the you

With the aim of combating rampant unemployment and poverty, the government has decided, at least in principle, to replace foreign workers with Jordanians. Prime Minister Hani Mulki presided over a meeting held by the higher committee for the National Employment Strategy at t