On February 24th, strikes began at both daily newspapers "Al-Rai" and the English-language Jordan Times, the first sit-in in the history of the most widely-read newspaper in the Kingdom. Now, the sit

Students from the Qweismeh secondary school have attacked school facilities, breaking and burning some of the contents inside, setting tires on fire in the yard, preventing faculty from entering the

Jordanian youths are into hypothetical debate about what things are heading to on the real world after the end of the 10 days that His Majesty King Abdullah II promised to end the intervene of the

A campaign to collect signatures on a request form at Palestinian camps in the kingdom has started to allow residents to elect service committees and to stop appointing their members by the

Residents and farmers in Damia area of Der Alla close to the border with Israel have complained over a bad smell coming from Jordan River side. Residents said that the nature of such smell is strange

Taher Odwan, state minister for media and communications, said that attention to media is key to political reform. “We can’t create democratic institutions without creating free media.” Odwan who was

(Black Iris) Jordan has always seemed to be a country taking one step forward and two steps back. For every “good” thing that happens, there seems to always be a slew of negatives lurking around the

AMMAN - The Lower House Economic and Financial Committee on Wednesday approved the new version of the 2011 state budget draft law presented to the House earlier this month. During yesterday's

AMMAN - UNRWA teachers in Jordan threatened to escalate measures if the relief agency continues with a plan to include the Holocaust in school textbooks. Warning that the plan would hurt the feelings

The committee has stressed that during its upcoming meetings all ideas related to political reform will be open to discussion, but some groups have voiced disagreement with the method of the committee