An Unlikely King
Bernard Avishai : Biography
An authoritative new biography of Jordan's King Hussein offers an absorbing diplomatic history of the Middle East.
Jordan
2008
2006
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Free-Trade Bondage in Jordan
Kristen Gillespie : World Economy
The Jordan-US free-trade agreement was supposed to be a labor-rights model. It's been a disaster.
2005
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Letter From Jordan
Since Abdullah II assumed the throne in 1999, Jordan has become increasingly authoritarian and corrupt.
This week: Imagining a new new deal, with Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself. Plus: Ennis Carter and Stephen Duncombe on the political propaganda legacy of the WPA. (13mb mp3)
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