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Jordan Times
September 24, 2017
AMMAN — “When I saw a kid get run over by a car, I knew I had to do something about it,” said Mousa Zweiri, Jordan's noted volunteer in protecting school children from the dangers of traffic. The 62-year-old, who has been unemployed for the past five years, has been helping school children cross theÃâà...
Jordan Times
November 7, 2016
Following His Majesty King Abdullah's Speech from the Throne, the Upper House convened and elected Marouf Bakhit as the Senate president's first deputy and Samir Rifai as the second deputy. Senators Munir Sobar and Yasera Ghosheh were elected as the president's assistants. Senate PresidentÃâà...
Jordan Times
September 27, 2016
AMMAN — A Royal Decree was issued on Tuesday dissolving the Senate as of September 27, while another listed the names of the 65 members of the Upper House, presided over by Faisal Fayez, who kept his title from the previous Senate, according to a Royal Court statement. The makeup of the newÃâà...
Jordan Times
May 11, 2016
On his official Twitter account, former prime minister Samir Rifai commented on the incident, saying that the young people attempted suicide after losing hope in finding a decent job. “We have to sound the alarm. The theme of the stage should be: unemployment, unemployment and then unemployment,” heÃâà...
Qantara.de
September 28, 2015
Tunisia, Egypt, Syria: in 2010/2011 the Arab World was in uproar. Young people took to the streets; the demonstrations led to regime change, but also to civil war. In Jordan, however, the protests lasted only briefly – and generated few results. The Jordanian journalist Tamer Khorma took part in the protestsÃâà...
New York Times
February 1, 2011
King Abdullah II dismissed Samir Rifai, above, as Jordan's prime minister Tuesday. The royal palace announced that the king had dismissed Prime Minister Samir Rifai and replaced him with Marouf al-Bakhit, who has served before in the post and is a former general and a onetime ambassador to IsraelÃâà...
CCTV
March 19, 2010
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri has met with visiting Jordanian Prime Minister Samir Rifai in Beirut. Hariri and his Jordanian counterpart headed the meeting of the Lebanese-Jordanian committee and signed 16 agreements between the two countries. The deals focused on cooperation in economy,Ãâà...
BBC News
December 18, 2009
Jordan has a new 29-member government headed by prominent businessman, Samir Rifai, a close confidant of King Abdullah. The scion of a political dynasty, Mr Rifai was a former palace aide, and his father and grandfather both served as prime ministers. Mr Rifai, 43, replaces Nader al-Dahabi, whoÃâà...
