Jake Jones

Democracy and political communication issues in #MENA. Previously six years in #Baltics, eight years in South #Caucasus. All opinions my own.

[Edmund Ratka @EdmundRatka]

Happy to receive a group of 🇬🇧 students at ⁦@KASonline⁩ #Jordan Office today, together with ⁦@JonesJakeThe⁩ (IRI). On the menu in our garden: 🍕 + and lots of thoughts about 🇯🇴, its efforts of political reform and traditionally strong regional diplomacy! آهلًا وسهلا

[Trisagionfilms @TrisagionFilms]

Today we have awoken to the sad news that his eminence Bishop Kallistos Ware has passed away. He is one of the most important English-speaking theologians of the 20th and 21st centuries. He was a man who exposed the Orthodox faith to countless English speakers. His book (cont.)

[Jake Jones @JonesJakeThe]

@Samuels_DavidJ @roya_talibova @nikhargaikwad @noahzucker A large congratulations to @roya_talibova !

[Jake Jones @JonesJakeThe]

Heavy dust storms in Amman lasted for days in April, portending climate crisis. Combined with water scarcity, it is beyond a concern for the future. What @leloveluck shows in neighboring Iraq is very worrisome and close.

[Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck]

As temperatures creep toward 50 degrees, Iraq’s climate crisis provides a snapshot of the world’s future. Re-sharing this piece on what it means for the communities who now face prospect of being forced from their land: https://t.co/5Cg8Ly9Kae

[RHC @RHCJO]

His Majesty King Abdullah II, in an interview with H.R. McMaster last week in Washington, DC, for the “Battlegrounds” series by Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, talks about Jordan’s ties with the US & developments in the region #Jordan

Details:
https://t.co/AxIyBW0Epe

[Dulles Airport (IAD) @Dulles_Airport]

Big day!! Beginning today, @united will fly the first-ever #nonstop flight from DC to Amman, Jordan! (AMM) 🇺🇸✈️🇯🇴

📷: @diecastryan

[Edmund Ratka @EdmundRatka]

Some take aways from today: new electoral and party laws alone will not revive political life in #Jordan. A culture has to emerge that encourages activism and partisan work by youth. Society must produce the new political elites, not the state. First thing to do: building trust.

[Generation Democracy @IRIGenDem]

Meet @asimghweiri, candidate for #GenDemGMAB. Within 12 years, he has been a Medical Laboratory Technologist and an Attorney at Law - two very important positions to fill! Coming to us from #Jordan, he believes we should be the change we wish to see in this world.