Sixty one years can seem like a short period of time but perhaps given the region, any nation in the Middle East can appear aged. It would be easy to reminisce about Jordan’s history, how it came to be; where it was and how it has become. It would be easy to focus on the.

1921 As the Ottoman Empire fell, French Mandate Syria, and British Mandate Palestine were created. Transjordan occupied a large majority of British Mandate Palestine on the East side of the Jordan River. King Abdallah I was given semi-autonomous control of Tranjordan after losing the battle for control of Mecca and Medina. 1946 British request from.

Remnants of ancient past pave way for global future Written by Rami Abdelrahman The Nabateans of Petra took over the Kingdom of Edom to establish a pioneering civilization that collected art and culture from surrounding kingdoms, but little did they knew that the same land would emerge into 21st century Jordan, home to an ethnically.

A word of caution for those who are addicted to social networking sites. Written by Ramsey Tesdell An explosion in the popularity of social networking sites on the Internet has taken the world by storm recently. MySpace, Facebook and Orukt are some of the most popular ones, which allow you to publish a profile of.

Written by Edward Stallard There are certain places we go in life where we get the feeling that somehow we have been there before. The Downtown area of the Jordanian capital Amman is one of those places for me. And it was not until I tried to capture the feeling of the place in words.

The World Economic Forum has come to an end and it has been quite the extraordinary experience for me personally, specifically with being able to blog live via 7iber. I ran around asking a series of various questions to a variety of powerful people these past three days, the essential question being: “what does this.

A session on multiculturalism has just ended and HM Queen Rania was the guest of honor. It was the first time seeing the Queen speak live and I was taken aback by how eloquent she is. It was surprising to say the least and I think perhaps I had preconceived notions that she was more.

Unfortunately I arrived a little late to the Arab-Israeli session that included the likes of Saeb Erekat, Amr Mousa, Al Khatib and Shimon Peres amongst European and American representatives. I entered during an exchange between Peres and Erekat who were of course on opposite sides. Eventually however, they arrived at a common point where Peres.

So is the Arab world betraying its youth? A lot was said during the Al Arabyieh debate here at the WEF, in an attempt to discuss the issues that have adversely affected our youth. The center of it revolved around why young Arabs are trying to leave their countries. Unemployment seems to top the list.