Many people in Israel and around the world have been glued to their television sets, praying - each according to his own custom - for the success of a democratic revolution in Egypt. Their prayers

The following cable details the biographies of key figures in the Jordanian government following current Prime Minister-designate Marouf Bakhit's first-term resignation in November of 2007. The cable

It's easy to point at high prices and unemployment for the protests in Tunisia and Egypt. But at their heart is the quality of governance. The Arab world is abuzz with the lessons of the Tunisian

Marwan Muasher writes in op-ed: "No leader is immune" from Tunisia's fate if they don't "take immediate steps to improve democratic rights." Marwan Muasher, former foreign minister of Jordan, wrote in

Palestinian cartoonist Khalil Abu Arafeh is no Fatah loyalist. In his early years he supported the left-wing Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Abu Arafeh's brother Khaled was elected to

On the eve of your anticipated address to the populace, and in the wake of your consultations with a handful of Jordanians from different walks of life, I, as a devoted Jordanian who is proud to be a

Tunisia's popular revolution should have been a wake-up call to the rotting autocracy of Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and his supporters in the Obama administration. Instead, Cairo is moving to retrench

Suppose that the world’s leading policy makers were to meet again in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to design a new global economic order. They would naturally be preoccupied with today’s problems: the

Finally, and after four years of a laggard non-economic vision, the Jordanian government’s budget seems to get on the right track. Not only is the budget deficit falling, there also seems to be an

I think it is time to draw the attention more seriously about littering around here. Littering with cans, bottles, plastic bags, cigarettes and diapers, particularly in the few forests we have, has