Jordan has provided little if any evidence to support its claims of a foreign plot, but one of those arrested, Bassem Awadallah, a former head of the royal court, has extensive business ties in the …
Jordan’s King Says Plot ‘Buried’ After Rift With Half-Brother
Among the detainees is Bassem Awadallah who has served in various positions in Jordan, including minister of finance and head of the royal court. Until 2018, he was King Abdullah’s personal envoy to …
The Middle East Cannot Afford for Jordan to Become a Second Libya | Opinion
The alleged coup attempt to overthrow King Abdullah II of Jordan should sound alarm bells for the United States and other Western governments. Do they want a strong ally that borders their other …
Royal tumult in Jordan comes at a time of economic hardship
Related: Jordan includes refugees in its COVID-19 vaccination rollout To offset the financial trouble, the government took out an International Monetary Fund loan, Fahmy said, which was conditional on …
How stable is Jordan really?
Has the world — and particularly Western allies like the US and Germany, who have troops based there and are important financial donors — been wrong about the Middle Eastern state all along? Despite …
Jordan Prince Hamzah: How Saudi Arabia fits into the crisis
The crisis has since been de-escalated after mediation by the king’s uncle, but speculation is rife as to what Saudi Arabia’s role has been in this crisis. Jordan bans reporting on royal rift A …
Jordan- Tax burden eats up 24.2% of personal income — Al-Ississ
(MENAFN – Jordan Times) AMMAN — Finance Minister Mohamad Al-Ississ on Monday said that tax burden in 2020 totalled 24.2 per cent of personal income, citing the Income and Sales Tax Department’s …
How Leslie Jordan Helped Us Survive Quarantine and Made a Gospel Album in the Process
The actor and Instagram hero throws a love-in with Dolly Parton, Brandi Carlile, and T.J. Osborne on ‘Company’s Comin” …
How Leslie Jordan Helped Us Survive Quarantine and Made a Gospel Album in the Process
The actor and Instagram hero throws a love-in with Dolly Parton, Brandi Carlile, and T.J. Osborne on ‘Company’s Comin” …
Blodgett: Vernon Jordan was DC’s ultimate insider
In the late 1990s and again circa 2007, I met the esteemed Washington “Superlawyer,” lobbyist Vernon Jordan, who had performed some legal work for a client I represented, the Association of Finance …