Amman

Amman, Beijing, Istanbul, Mumbai, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, Tel Aviv, Tunis: The list of cities where New York's Columbia University has developed its so-called Global Centers is indeed impressive - and it just became even longer, with the addition of Athens. 

He works in Amman, Jordan, but also in Ankara, Iraq and at the United Nations Office at Geneva. As the United Nations regional humanitarian coordinator for the Syria crisis since 2017, Panos Moumtzis' work has taken him around the world. "I rarely sleep in the same place for more than three days," he told Kathimerini during an interview.

Syria's parliament speaker, Hammouda Sabbagh, travelled to Amman for an Arab inter-parliamentary meeting.

In this hand out file photo from the Jordanian Royal Palace dated June 01, 2016, Jordan's Prime Minister Hani Mulki takes a oath at the swearing in ceremony of Jordan's new government in Amman. Mulki submitted his resignation on June 4, 2018. AFP PHOTO / Jordanian Royal Palace / YOUSEF ALLAN

Koç Holding’s Otokar has won a tender to supply 100 inner-city buses to Jordan’s Amman municipality shortly after it won a similar bid in Romania’s Bucharest, according to the company’s own reports.

Turkish Chief of General Staff Hulusi Akar paid an official visit to the Jordanian capital Amman on Feb. 20, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

A “first-of-its-kind” Hellenistic temple in the Levant region has been discovered in Umm Qais, an archaeologist said on Monday.
An archaeological excavation team from Yarmouk University has recently discovered a Hellenistic temple and network of water tunnels, Atef Sheyyab, president of the archaeology department at the university told the Jordan Times.

Greece’s Special Counter-Terrorist Unit (EKAM) stood out during the ninth edition of the Warrior Competition held in Amman, Jordan between April 30 and May 4.

In December 2015, US agents from the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) service and officers from the Greek Police's organized crime unit arrested a 51-year-old arms trafficker and owner of a company based in the Jordanian city of Amman, in Aspropyrgos, an industrial town east of Athens.

A Jordanian-Turkish business forum kicked off in the Jordanian capital Amman on Dec. 10.

Organized by the Jordanian Businessmen Association (JBA), the event is attended by 20 Turkish businessmen from different sectors.

 "Historic relations between Jordan and Turkey are based on friendship and mutual interests," JBA chairman Hamdi al-Tabaa said.