International developments and foreign policy subtleties have always required Jordan to work harder for a place at the front, either at the table or even simply in the room during particularly challenging times. This reality, a result of Jordan’s fluctuating geopolitical rel

The detention of teenage Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi caused a stir on multiple levels.

This is the first week of 2018 and already we are beset with rumours of impending change within the upper echelons of policy making at the Royal Court and government.

Theatricality, it is said, is an essential element of power.

Globalisation — as laymen understood it — proposed the idea that physical borders between states became redundant as the world converged to achieve and maximise mechanisms of global outreach utilising speedy communication — and financial — tools and a flurry of global movement as

What can be said that hasn’t been said already? The Arab masses feel betrayed.

I read an article a couple of weeks ago in the Financial Times entitled “Uncertain Prospects for Young Evoke Nostalgia for Welfare State in Wigan”.  You would think from reading the headline that what is happening in a small largely non-descript suburban town in the UK

Aformer deputy raises his voice at women lawyers and waves off a Jordanian mother telling her to take her son back to Egypt where they can take care of him as their own.A senior civil servant asks why would the government treat a woman as equal under the law if religion did not m

One of the first lessons I learned as a rookie Jordanian journalist back in 1983 was that Jordan had a special and unique place that allowed it a historic purpose and a pivotal role beyond its size.Of course, that space manifested itself differently over the years.When I first st