We, in the Arab world, get indignant when American presidents or secretaries of state wear a yarmulke at a Jewish organisation, in a synagogue or at concentration camp memorial.

With great discretion, the government of Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour took two separate decisions last week that angered many Jordanians.Some limited protestations occurred, and anger erupted among some members of Parliament, so eventually the government retracted its decision.

Historically speaking, most revolutions were followed by long periods of chaos and internal violence.What people revolted against was usually replaced by a worse dictatorship and dysfunctional state.The French Revolution started as an attempt to free the political prisoners from

French naturalist George-Louis Buffon of the 18th century is credited with the famous quote “style is the man”, which I always thought was vintage Shakespeare.I remembered this quote when I was listening and watching His Majesty King Abdullah deliver his inaugural speech to the t

Daesh struck during the last two weeks in Lebanon, Egypt and France.

It is accidentally convenient that the acronym for the Department of Statistics in Jordan is DOS.

Prime Minister  Abdullah Ensour praised his government’s economic performance at a press conference which he held on October 31.Ensour said that the budget and the Jordanian dinar were holding despite adverse regional conditions.

While I was watching Fareed Zakaria’s “Global Public Square (GPS) on CNN two weeks ago, I was especially attracted to his conversation with Gillian Tett.

There is abundant literature in both Israeli and international media accusing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of being a “pathological liar”.Just print on the Internet “Netanyahu the liar” and you will get a plethora of articles on this topic.Many statesmen referred to