Archive: jordan
A Jordanian doctor could face legal action after reportedly abandoning his Indonesian maid near Directorate of Chest Diseases and Foreigners' Health after she developed tuberculosis.
The 28-year-old woman was allegedly beaten by the doctor’s mother and received no wages during the 19 months that… Read more
Following the imprisonment of an Egyptian poet for “insulting” President Mubarak (reported here in July), another Arab poet – this time in Jordan – is preparing himself for jail.
Islam Samhan was arrested last October and charged him with insulting the prophets because of Quranic references in… Read more
It’s beginning to look as if the Red-Dead Project – an imaginative (some would say fanciful) scheme to channel water from the Red Sea into the Dead Sea – may one day come to fruition.
The Jordan Times reports that Egypt has dropped its reservations to the project, which was jointly agreed… Read more