Jordan

Obama And The Wall

Jamal Dajani | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Obama Berlin, Jordan, Israel, Middle East, Barack Obama, Obama Middle East, Obama Berlin Speech, Obama Foreign Policy, Obama Israel, Politics News
Jamal Dajani

During my recent travels to the Middle East, I found that although Obama fairs much better than his rival, early enthusiasm for his candidacy has been replaced by skepticism.

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Media Darlings: The Maverick or The Chosen One?

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Yorker, Greg Mitchell, Jordan, David Horsey, Straight Talk Express, Obama Cartoon, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Ted Johnson, Editor and Publisher, Obama, Wilshire, Barack Obama 2008, Politics, Wilshire and Washington, Netroots, Teresa Valdez Klein, Israel, Maegan Carberry, John McCain, Politics News
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein

Do reporters like John McCain better? Can Captain Straight Talk Express even complain? And should Obama sidestep his rep as the Anointed One?

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Seven Tips to Obama

Jamal Dajani | Posted 07.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Palestine, Jordan, Israel, Iraq, Middle East, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Politics News
Jamal Dajani

Don't keep insisting to the Arabs that you're not a Muslim. They already know that, and they don't care.

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Eco-Touring in the Middle East: How About Jordan, Iran and Lebanon?

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 07.09.2008 | Green

Read More: Jordan, Iran, Green Travel, Middle East, Environment, Lebanon, Travel, Treehugger, Eco-Tourism, Eco-Travel, Global Democracy, Israel, Green News
Karin Kloosterman

ISA issues aside, eco-touring is no longer a concept found only in the West. More Middle Eastern organizations are starting to cater to the ecologically minded and are marketing eco-tours.

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Killing the Dead Sea Twice Is Good for Politicians, Not the Environment

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 07.02.2008 | Green

Read More: Jordan, Politics, Red Sea, Shimon Peres, Ecology, Middle East, World Bank, Environment, Israel, Palestine, Treehugger, Dead Sea, Green News
Karin Kloosterman

The Dead Sea, shared by Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians should be listed as one of the Wonders of the World -- and it's in danger of drying up.

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Israel's Diplomatic "JewJitsu"

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Iran, Sarkozy, Oil Exports, Olmert, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East Peace, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah, Hamas, Iraq., Politics News
Amb. Marc Ginsberg

Israel has secretly accomplished more diplomatically in the past few months with its adversaries than anything that Condi Rice could have or would have brokered in years.

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Mideast Suspicion Fertile Ground for Rumors

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 06.18.2008 | Media

Read More: Web, Jordan, Palestine, John McCain, McCain Middle East, Israel-Palestine, New Media, Middle East Media, Israel, Media News
Daoud Kuttab

A blogger reported on a lecture given by an advisor to McCain saying that the nominee plans to declare Jordan a Palestinian state. This supposed lecture, however, never took place.

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'World's First Church' Discovered In Jordan: Report

AP | DALE GAVLAK | Posted 06.11.2008 | Living

Read More: Jordan Archaeologists, Archaeologists, World's First Church, Jordan, Archaeologists First Church, Living News

AMMAN, Jordan — Archaeologists in Jordan have discovered a cave underneath one of the world's oldest churches and say it may have been an even m...

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Queen Rania of Jordan Does YouTube for Peace

Craig Newmark | Posted 06.04.2008 | Media

Read More: Queen Rania, Youtube, Jordan, Media News
Craig Newmark

Queen Rania is at the cutting edge of diplomatic communication and efforts to build global understanding, having launched a webpage on Youtube.

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McCain at AIPAC Offers Americans and Israelis the Same Gloomy, Insecure, Hope-Free Future

Daniel Levy | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jordan, Egypt, McCain Middle East, McCain Israel, Iran, John McCain Hagee, Joe Lieberman and John McCain, McCain Iraq, Al Qaeda, Aipac, John Hagee, Middle East, Mccain Aipac, Joe Lieberman, Israel, McCain Iran, Lieberman Hagee, Politics News
Daniel Levy

That most of the crowd loved McCain's speech is a sad reflection on AIPAC, and that it is reaping what it has sown in moving so aggressively to the right in recent years.

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Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden? Morgan Spurlock Shows the Simple Truth: We're in Some Serious Doo-Doo But There's Hope Yet

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 04.18.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Egypt, Jordan, Super Size Me, Democracy Filmmaker, Morocco, Morgan Spurlock, Terrorism, War, Alex Gibney, Palestine, Wall Street Journal, Peace, Taxi to the Dark Side, Religion, Gaza, Wwf, Arab, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Danny Pearl, Oil, New York Times, Israel, Afghanistan, A.O. Scott, Clergy US Intervention, Masturbate, Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?, Dilawar, Entertainment News
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

Spurlock's film shows how regular people can ferret out simple truths, when our leaders fail to make the effort.

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What Petraeus Didn't Tell You

Jamal Dajani | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jordan, Linktv, David Petraeus, Video, Iraq War, Jamal Dajani, Mosaic, Un, Crocker, Syria, Refugees, Bush, Politics News
Jamal Dajani

When General David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker testified before a Senate Committee this week, there was one issue never mentioned: that's the issue of Iraqi refugees.

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A Double-Standard For Jordan?

William Fisher | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Bush Administration, Human Rights, Jordan, State Department, Rendition, Politics News
William Fisher

When Jordan's King Abdullah II addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress in March 2007, his speech was filled with words like peace and justice. ...

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The New Media Environment: Paths to Understanding

Mahmood N. Al-Yousif | Posted 04.02.2008 | Media

Read More: New Media, Aspen Institute, Jordan, Conference, Media News

The premise of the Aspen Institute's conference I just attended at the Dead Sea in Jordan was somewhat different from the others I had in the past. Th...

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Islam's Moderate Leaders and That 3am Call

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 03.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jordan, Abdullah Badawi, Dubai, Al Qaeda, Islam, Clinton, Morocco, Presidential Campaign, Pakistan, Malaysia, Obama, Mccain, United Arab Emirates, Hillary 3AM Ad, Clinton 3AM, 3am Ad, Politics News
Amb. Marc Ginsberg

The next president is going to have rebuild a lot of broken coalitions shattered by years of failed U.S. diplomacy to make that 3am call less of a threat to our sleeping kids.

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Middle East Inflation Agitates Lower Classes

New York Times | Robert F. Worth | Posted 02.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Jordan, Domino Effect, Gas Prices, Persian Gulf, Middle East, Arabs, Saudi Arabia, Gasoline Prices, Gasoline, Fuel Subsidies, Oil, Petroleum, Business News

Even as it enriches Arab rulers, the recent oil-price boom is helping to fuel an extraordinary rise in the cost of food and other basic goods that is ...

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The Iraqi Refugee Mess Just Got Messier

Lionel Beehner | Posted 02.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jordan, Iraq, Amman, u.s. Foreign Policy, Refugees, War, Politics News
Lionel Beehner

Shame on the Democratic presidential frontrunners for not raising this subject more often. Shame on reporters who take the shibboleth from the White House as if it were fact.

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"I Have a Mirage!" Bush Declares to the Arab World

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 01.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jordan, Egypt, White House, The Middle East, Morocco, Condoleeza Rice, King Abdullah, Bush, United Arab Emirates, Primaries, Presidential Campaign, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Ayman Nour, Rice, Mubarak, Bush Freedom Agenda, Bush Saudi Arabia, Bush Mideast Trip, Politics News
Amb. Marc Ginsberg

It's taken a terribly long time for Rice -- no Mid-East expert either before, during, or after her 7th year in this administration -- to understand that "elections" do not constitute "democracy."

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Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Iraqi Refugees. . . What? Wait a Minute.

Russ Wellen | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Iraqi Refugees, John Foley, Iraqi Refugees in Jordan, Jordan, Iraq Refugees in the US, Syria, Iraqi Refugees in Syria, Politics News
Russ Wellen

The death and forced relocation of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis can no longer be ignored. The citizens of every American city or town need to provide jobs and lodging for Iraqis.

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Lebanon is a Good Example of Removing the Impression of Suspicious Deals from the Bush Administration

Raghida Dergham | Posted 12.22.2007 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Palestine, Annapolis Peace Conference, Lebanon, Jordan, Condoleezza Rice, Egypt, France, Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations, Damascus Conference, European Union, Italy, Iran, Taliban, Syria, Nicolas Sarkozy, Politics News
Raghida Dergham

The US has become interested once again in a leading role regarding Lebanon to correct the errors that have hurt the model of democracy, the reputation of the US and Bush himself.

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Victoria's Secret, Slave Labor And So-Called "Free Trade"

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 11.27.2007 | Business

Read More: John Edwards, Jordan, Hillary Clinton, Class Warfare, National Labor Committee, Free Trade, Labor Exploitation, Clinton CAFTA, Limited Brands, Cafta, DK Garments, Victorias Secret, Guest Workers, Leslie Wexner, US Jordan Free Trade Agreement, Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, Victoria's Secret Sweatshop, Business News
Jonathan Tasini

Why we would pretend that labor rights can be enforced as a secondary issue in countries around the world--when we can't even enforce basic labor rights here--exposes the true fallacy of so-called "free trade."

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An American Wife

Cheryl Saban | Posted 11.14.2007 | Politics

Read More: Jordan, Middle East Politics, Middle East, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Saban Forum on U.S. Israeli Relations, Brookings Institution, Politics News
Cheryl Saban

Having the opportunity of experiencing lovely differences allows me to humanize the complicated issues of the Middle East in a way not quite possible from a distance.

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Guantánamo: The Stories of Three Innocent Jordanians and an Afghan, Just Released

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.06.2007 | Politics

Read More: Izatullah Nasrat, Al-Qaeda, Jordan, International Islamic Relief Organization, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Taliban, Guantanamo Shut Down, Osama Abu Kabir, Jamaat-Al-Tablighi, Iiro, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Despite the rumors that the US administration is hoping to close Guantánamo, it is still holding men without charge or trial who should never have been imprisoned in the first place.

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My Message of Cross-Cultural Understanding

Queen Rania of Jordan | Posted 10.22.2007 | Politics

Read More: Jordan, The Women's Conference 2007, Rania Al Abdullah, Politics News
Queen Rania of Jordan

To hear some in the West, all Arab women are backward and oppressed... while some Arabs assume all American women are desperate housewives seeking sex in the city.

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Talk to Syria for the Sake of Iraqi Refugees

Bill Frelick | Posted 10.16.2007 | Politics

Read More: Jordan, Iraq, War in Iraq, Syria, Iraqi Refugees, Human Rights Watch, Politics News
Bill Frelick

Washington's failure to provide support for Iraqi refugees in Syria has only punished the refugees, not the Syrian government.

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