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Newsletter

#Ruba Saqr

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Muslims, too, revere Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary

Jan 18,2023 | Opinion

Amman

The message to the public sector is clear: shape up or ship out

Nov 30,2022 | Opinion

water

Water supply interruptions are unfair to Jordanian households

Nov 23,2022 | Opinion

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Push for World Bank reform at COP27 is music to Jordanians’ ears

Nov 16,2022 | Opinion

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COP27 and ‘sustainability’ that is unsustainable

Nov 09,2022 | Opinion

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Do women make a difference in government and Parliament?

Nov 02,2022 | Opinion

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Jordan puts family-run farms at the heart of agricultural transformation

Oct 19,2022 | Opinion

Prime Minister Bisher Al-Khasawneh

With low public trust, could the government be on its way out?

Oct 12,2022 | Opinion

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Jordanian women back to square one under new Child Rights Law

Oct 05,2022 | Opinion

Aqsa mosque

Lapid understands that the two-state solution is imminent

Sep 28,2022 | Opinion

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Child rights bill and the rabbit hole of information

Sep 21,2022 | Opinion

Elia Nuqul

Elia Nuqul: A lifetime of impeccable work ethic

Sep 14,2022 | Opinion

electricity

Next government needs to have a firm grasp of climate change

Sep 07,2022 | Opinion

Farmers

No more time to wait to revive Jordan’s moribund rural communities

Aug 31,2022 | Opinion

Drought season

Investment bill assumes that Jordan is a water-rich country

Aug 17,2022 | Opinion

Child rights bill

Absence of crisis management to save the child rights bill

Aug 03,2022 | Opinion

Child rights bill

Child rights bill aims to protect, not destroy, the Jordanian family

Jul 27,2022 | Opinion

A Palestinian girl carries her country's national flag during demontrations against Israeli settler attacks near al-Mughayer village, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, on July 12, 2022.

The inevitability of the independent Palestinian state

Jul 20,2022 | Opinion

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Jordan’s child rights bill is finally here

Jul 06,2022 | Opinion

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Will the anti-corruption unit investigate the emptying of water dams?

Jun 22,2022 | Opinion

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How to boost Jordanian morale : A lesson from Hollywood

Jun 15,2022 | Opinion

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Without civil society voice, Jordan Vision missing key stakeholders

Jun 08,2022 | Opinion

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Sixth Circle Towers and the vicious cycle of poor governance

Jun 01,2022 | Opinion

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GLF is a breath of fresh air for Jordanian and regional farmers

May 25,2022 | Opinion

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Why is Jordan opening up agriculture to foreign investment, not local small farming?

May 18,2022 | Opinion

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Lack of empathy for suicidal Jordanians ‘is the true crime’

May 11,2022 | Opinion

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Nothing ‘smart’ about Amman municipality’s digital transformation plans

Jan 25,2022 | Opinion

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Equity, not equality, for women and girls

Jan 11,2022 | Opinion

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Jordan’s opinion writers are mentoring our populist MPs

Jan 04,2022 | Opinion

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Christmas in a diverse Jordanian society

Dec 28,2021 | Opinion

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Israel has six seawater desalination plants while Jordan has none!

Dec 22,2021 | Opinion

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Theatrics in Jordanian Parliament and the absence of debate

Dec 15,2021 | Opinion