One serious thing was omitted in the recent World Economic Forum in the Middle East and North Africa meeting, held on the shores of the Dead Sea, as well as in all previous WEF meetings, including the annual ones held in Davos, Switzerland, and that was the mention of the pr

Of all the economic challenges facing Jordan, the energy crisis stands out as the most pressing as the country remains heavily dependent on imported energy sources — to the tune of 97 per cent of its needs, which accounts for about 18 per cent of its GDP.Obviously this is not sus

The battle for Ramadi has acquired a more critical importance after its fall to Daesh forces, not only because it is only about 100 kilometres from the capital, Baghdad, but also because it is mostly a Sunni metropolis that may lend support to the false proposition that the fight

Islamophobia is a relatively new term, perhaps first coined in the report of the commission established by the British Runnymede Trust in 1996, chaired by the then vice-chancellor of the University of Sussex, on “British Muslims and Islamophobia”. The

Perhaps I am one of the few still in the dark about Jordan’s nuclear programme. While I thought the country was still in the midst of a national debate at all levels, government and public, about whether to go nuclear or not to meet national energy needs, th

US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton remains the front runner in the race for the White House 2016 elections; her initial campaign pitch was low key, risking slowing her lead. Instead of offering a “fiery” speech at the start of her election campaign,

Recent revelations buttressed by a report published by the German weekly magazine Der Spiegel a few weeks ago suggest that former Baath officers who supported the late Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein aided and abated Daesh’s ongoing military offensives in Iraq, and made it poss

The next US presidential elections are still more than eighteen months away, but there is already a long list of candidates from the Republican Party and a few from the Democratic Party entering the race. Former senator and secretary of state Hillary Clinton took the l

As chairperson of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Geneva, I was extremely impressed and touched by the speech of Minister of Finance Umayya Toukan, delivered at the meeting of the Council of Arab Ministers of Finance recently held in the Kuwaiti c