From time to time I like to be satisfied with a few good traits in managing my life. One of them is that I do not leave issues unresolved for a long time and tend to take decisions soon to move on to the next level. One of the few things that I face trouble in sorting out is my blogging habits. As I decided from day one to have a bilingual blog with two separate interfaces I began to struggle with... [read more]

Bloggers are becoming a source of information for international reporters, journalists and even academic researchers on the issues of the Middle East. This blog has attracted some journalists to send me e-mails, talk over the phone and in person about contemporary issues in Jordan. I became very disappointed to realize that the two major issues about Jordan in which foreign reporters are obsessed... [read more]

This is one of the most exciting breaking news I heared for a while. If this project is implemented with a high standard of committment, it will be a turning point for housing and urbanization in Jordan. This article was published in the very impressive and new UAE newspaper: The National   Chris Stanton The master planners of Abu Dhabi’s carbon-neutral community were now working on the... [read more]

Iam still struggling with managing the time to be back in full-fledge blogging here. However, I will continue posting some interesting features published by other news sources and informative essays on Jordan. This is an article about Jordan's nuclear option from Oxford Business Group. It is interesting to see that Jordan has opted to deal with the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP), which is... [read more]

An informative report from Oxford Business Group about Jordan's elusive Disi conveyor project. Will it finally see the light?   Ground will finally be broken on Jordan's Disi Water Conveyance Project in June, as the drought-stricken country looks to boost its increasingly scarce water supply and combat the persistent shortfall of potable water in Amman and other urban centres. Speaking last... [read more]

This is an article published by Carnegie Endowment's Arab Political Reform Bulletin.    Recent labor protests and bread lines in Egypt—in which the army was called in to organize distribution and restore order—present a stark contrast to the Egyptian government’s narrative of impressive economic growth, which international financial institutions have validated. Jordan has not experienced serious... [read more]