Economic overview of Jordan in 77 yearsALBAWABA – Jordan’s National Independence Day is coming up, May 25, marking the 77th year since the Kingdom gained its independence in 1946.Jordan in 77 years has seen significant changes, notwithstanding economic shifts. These seven and a half decades saw the development of the public and private...

Before the conflict, names like Damascus and Aleppo were full of romantic suggestion. Now the names have become deformities, violations. They are names which recall the savagery of the Assad regime and impotence of the wider international community. There is surely some relief in the West that Syria has slipped from international...

Eleven years after the Arab Spring, the Middle East has yet to shed the mood of protest. There is now little that is revolutionary about its struggles of revolution, and Iran is only the latest country to be ensnared in the agitation called up by such desire. Expectations that citizens of MENA countries might become too dispirited to...

China’s interactions with the Middle East have grown this year. Despite negotiating a fraught world economy and sluggish economic growth at home, Beijing’s breathless activities have continued unabated, thickening China’s involvement in Middle Eastern affairs. Whether this foreshadows China becoming a meaningful political actor in the...