It was interesting that Prime Minister Hani Mulki started his two-hour meeting with academics and other stakeholders associated with the Strategic Studies Centre at University of Jordan last week by saying that “we need to come clean in order that we reach an understanding”.By co

The decision by the Greater Amman Municipality (GAM) to expand the list of home-based businesses sanctioned under its licensing instructions, including journalistic writing and editing, is groundbreaking, responds to economic demand and, in my opinion, hits the mark on several cr

Jordanians are having a truly critical debate in order to understand why Jordan — and therefore themselves — is now facing an uphill and arduous journey to address some serious economic challenges.At the core of that debate is how we got here and who is to blame.If one listens to

The national conversation around large-scale corruption and abuse of public sector benefits and services, as well as the epidemic and inappropriate exploitation of access for personal gain versus increasing the tax burden on the citizen, spell out, in my mind, the top concerns of

A couple of years ago, when I lived in England, I used to work for a well-known Arabic daily as a political editor. One of the pages I looked after had a section for rising Arab political opinion writers.

The title is not mine.

The scene played itself quite rapidly on Facebook pages.

I am not an economist or financial expert. In fact, this can be safely said about the vast majority of Jordanians.

Elections have a way of reorganising one’s thoughts on political realities.