Adios Dr Rifai!
6 January 2003

It’s been an exciting tour of duty for the departing minister. I don’t know which post will people remember him for, but now that he had landed a UN job, I don’t think Dr Rifai really cares!

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Those lovely weeklies!
30 December 2002

As a rule governments have treated the weeklies with disdain and many editors and reporters have frequented the Juweideh correctional facility in south Amman at the behest of the general prosecutor on press related charges. In journalism lingo weekly publishers are the underdogs but they are not going out of the game without a good fight.

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A matter of seasons
23 December 2002

Jordanian democracy is a sensitive creature and its guardians must make sure that it functions in an environment that is stable, crisis-free and predictable.

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