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Financial Time (Free subscription) | yesterday
The hallway is narrow and hot but dozens of people wait desperately outside the door of the Al Ufuq investment company in the Jordanian capital Amman. When an employee...
Financial Time (Free subscription) | yesterday
The government closes dozens of companies trading in foreign stocks and currencies and freezes their assets as the credit crunch appears to have exposed widespread embezzlement
Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
Cartoonist: Abdallah Darqawi Source: Al-Dustour, Jordan, October 5, ... October 7, 2008, 10:36 am
People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
Analysts and brokers attributed Monday's slump of Amman Stock Exchange (ASE), which dived by 4.28 percent to 3,781 points, to the uncertainty over the U.S. huge bailout plan to avert global financial meltdown, local daily The Jordan Times reported on Tuesday. "It is too early to judge whether the U.S. rescue plan would succeed in lessening the impact of the global financial crisis or not, but investors...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Amman- The Jordanian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that it was closely following up on the abduction of a Jordanian family in Beirut with the Lebanese authorities. A Jordanian mother and her three daughters, aged eight, five and three, were kidnapped...
Dhimmi Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
Stifling creativity in any medium through the threat of force has far-reaching consequences for creativity and innovation in a society for every medium, whether artistic or technological. There is an undeniable correlation between the free exchange of ideas (with the...
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
A Jordanian woman and her three daughters disappeared last week in Beirut, according to Monday's issue of An-Nahar newspaper. The daily reported that Jordanian Motaz Yassine Mahmoudi arrived in Beirut last Wednesday to celebrate Eid al-Fitr along with his wife Hajar Abou Salim and three daughters Rahaf, Roa and Ranad.
Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
On right: Bush declares "War on Terror" on remains of World Trade Center On left: Bush declares "War on Bankruptcy" on remains of Wall Street Cartoonist: 'Imad Hajjaj Source: Al-Ghad, Jordan, October 4, ... October 6, 2008, 1:31 pm
Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
On figure on left: "Israel"; on figure on right: "The Arabs" Cartoonist: Jalal Al-Rifa'ai Source: Al-Dustour, Jordan, October 4, ... October 6, 2008, 1:10 pm
ArabianBusiness.com (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Nine members of the Information Technology Association of Jordan will represent the country’s $3 billion ICT market
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- A Jordanian woman and her three daughters have been kidnapped in Lebanon for non-political reasons, a Jordanian Foreign Ministry source told local media Sunday. KUNA, the Kuwaiti news agency, reported an unnamed source told the Jordanian Al-Ghad daily newspaper the abduction of the woman and her daughters, ages 3, 5 and 7, happened Thursday near a Beirut hotel as they...
oil and energy news (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
AMMAN, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) — French nuclear giant AREVA is expected to embark on a uranium project in Jordan in November, officials were quoted by local daily The Jordan Times on Sunday. Jordan Nuclear Energy Commission Chairman Khalid Touqan said AREVA will start drilling in November for the project’s first phase, [...]
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
(Jordan, 2007, 102 minutes) The first feature film from Jordan to get theatrical distribution around the world, "Captain Abu Raed" is set in Amman, the capital of the Middle Eastern country. There, a widowed and childless janitor named Abu Raed (Nadim Sawalha)...
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Jammin' in Jordan Well we made it to Jordon after 29 hours of travel. It was tiring but uneventful except that one of the Robertson's bags did not show up yet. Good thing we are flexible We are getting to hate these outfitsToday we had a tour of Amman very interesting civilizations on top of civilizations. On the one site that we visited there was a Greek temple a Roman temple a Byzan
And, yes, I DO take it personally (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
woo-hoo... all flights were on time, i got some sleep on the long haul from chicago to amman, and my bags made it with me... who says we don't have a lot to be grateful for...? now, i'm going to find out what happened with the biden-palin nonsense last night, that i only got the briefest glimpse of in the gateroom in chicago, while i'm waiting for my colleague to arrive from london...
