This is an interesting piece of news today that is both strange and unverified so you’ll have to take it at the normal face value of news stories in the Kingdom. Jordan’s largest e-newspaper, AmmonNews, is claiming that it was essentially hacked by “unknown sources” last night after it published a statement of demands made [...]

There is going to be a great deal of political analysis regarding HM King Abdullah’s appointment of Marouf Al Bakhit as the new Prime Minister of Jordan and the subsequent and relatively expected exit of Samir Rifai. When it comes to Jordan, such analysis is not only expect an hour after an appointment, but analysts [...]

REUTERS: Abu Mohammad, an 83-year-old Palestinian refugee, speaks to Reuters TV at Al Hussein Palestinian refugee camp in Amman January 25, 2011. A proposal by Palestinian negotiators to exclude millions Palestinian refugees in Jordan, Syria, or Lebanon from potential vote over a peace deal with Israel has sent a shockwave amongst refugees in Jordan. In [...]

Reform in Jordan has always been an uneasy path. It is, in most cases, a ludicrous dance consisting of one step forward and three steps backwards, often times in completely unrelated fields. We improve in one area, and suddenly we seem to be doing a lot worse in a whole other area. Even the word [...]

The kind of slogan one might here in “V For Vendetta” or perhaps Orwell’s “1984″. But what is likely to be the most amazing part about the Rifai government’s recent win of a confidence vote in Parliament – a vote that has apparently set some sort of record (which is akin to a high score [...]

One interesting story floating under the radar these days, past the looming shadow of a tragic football game and its impact on national identity, is ironically linked to that very topic. Or, at the very least, to the broader issue of crime and punishment in the Kingdom. On November 9th, Tahir Nassar, a 45 year [...]

A recent “religious edict”, or fatwa, issued by the Islamic Action Front has accused the government of apostasy. Naturally, this has not gone over well with the state, which issued a broad public rejection of the fatwa that evidently included a press release an editorial in the Jordan Times. A statement issued by the Islamic [...]

Unless you’ve been living under a rock these past 24 hours, the biggest Wikileak dubbed “cablegate” has revealed thousands of US embassy cables. The results have been obviously quite embarrassing for the US government, which has spent the better part of the past week preparing for a visit to the diplomatic emergency room, which began [...]