Last night I had the pleasure of travelling on what can best be called “performance art”. In reality, picture a large shipping truck, and instead of cargo in the container, you have 3 rows of theater seating. Instead of a cold container metallic wall, there are white screens that play a documentary, and every now [...]

“How do you expect us to report on the credibility of elections when civil groups are not permitted to observe vote casting and ballot counting?” – Samih Sunukrut, secretary general of the Arab Organisation for Human Rights. The Jordanian Coalition for Civil Society Organisations announced on Tuesday it would drop a plan to monitor parliamentary [...]

The topic this week was surprisingly about prices and energy. I say surprisingly because the Jordan Business team has just finished a major cover story on inflation in the country, which essentially questions the government’s statements on the topic, and the measures they’ve taken (or lack thereof) to curb it. I have to admit that [...]

…I really am. (most of the time) (kinda)

Intellectual property: it may be one of the most unsexy topics in economics, but the strange market that is Jordan always makes even the most boring of topics, quite interesting. In these past 5 years, two entwining phenomena have arisen. The first being Jordan’s discovery that in order to enhance an investor environment as well [...]

I. I learned to whistle our bloody history through my teeth Painted our folklore on the harsh canvas walls of caves To remember the biographies of a continent That screamed to the colonialist This is the way we dance These are our truths Yes, every winter we ate clementines And in the fall we picked [...]

Knowing my love for political discussions and political sittings, my boss let me tag along to a “salon seyasi” at the World Affairs Council. I don’t believe “salon seyasi” has an actual English translation but it is basically an informal get together, meet-up, or forum, where people sit around the perimeter of an open room [...]

A few weeks after the Ramadan visit to the Baqaa (Bag3a) Palestinian refugee camp, the Action Committee returned to help out a family in need. The father is of Syrian decent and operates a ka3k trolley, which essentially means he walks around all day making cheap sandwiches. His wife is Jordanian and is deaf. Together [...]