His Majesty King Abdullah was born on January 30, 1962, making him 57 years young. At about the same time, I travelled that year to California to study at CAL POLY in Pomona.

Davos is a place where leaders of governments and business come together to issue their judgment on the world situation. They butter up the mundane situation with the presence of high caliber and world-renowned thinkers.

The above title is as big as the world itself. Yet, the theme has been the subject of a new book published in 2019 and penned by Amani Jarrar, an associate professor at Philadelphia University in Jordan.

Mustafa Hamarneh finally came, through the Economic and Social Council (ESC) that he chairs, with a voluminous report on Jordan, titled “State of the Country”.

I met Michel Marto in the summer of 1969, when I travelled to California to visit my first university, California State Polytechnic University.

A Pythagorean would love the holiest of all numbers, and that is 10. You can draw four rows of one, two, three and four and the total would be 10, which can multiply or degrade numbers quantumly. I love numbers and the tricks associated with them.

Since the general prosecutor has banned the publication of news on the trial of cigarette smuggler Awni Mutee, who had been extradited to Jordan from Turkey, I shall not write any news on the proceedings.

In William Shakespeare’s comedy “Much Ado About Nothing”, an avid reader may find tantalisingly funny quotes. The original title of the play, written between 1598 and 1599, was “Much Ado Over Noting”.

When I give a lecture, I am often confronted during the Q&A session with the question: “Why did you change your mind on this issue after you left government?” Well, I have not found the proper answer, until last week.I was surfing the Internet, searching for the year in which