Al-Aman Fund Reaches Kingdom's Governorates of Northern, Central and...

Al Bawaba;  July 22, 2008 ;     667 words ...Al-Aman Fund Reaches Kingdom's...Northern, Central and Southern Jordan As part of its plan for 2008, Al-Aman Fund for the Future of...Northern, Central, and Southern Jordan. Contracts were signed...Al Balqa'a), and Southern Jordan (Karak, ...

2 lawmen slain in Jordan at riot victim's funeral

Chicago Sun-Times;  April 21, 1989 ;     326 words ......demonstrations this week, residents in southern Jordan said. That brought the unofficial...out in several towns and cities in southern Jordan on Tuesday. The government has put...the late afternoon. Demonstrators in southern Jordan have been protesting since Tuesday...

Heavy rain, snowfall paralyze traffic in southern Jordan

Xinhua News Agency;  December 28, 2006 ;     192 words ......rain, snowfall paralyze traffic in southern Jordan AMMAN, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Intermittent...recent days paralyzed the traffic in southern Jordan with hundreds of people being stranded...was still falling on some areas in southern Jordan. According to the Meteorology Department...

2 killed in Jordanian price protest

Chicago Sun-Times;  April 20, 1989 ;     295 words ......increases erupted in several areas of southern Jordan for the second consecutive day, area...university in the Jordanian capital. The southern Jordan towns of Tafila, Shaubak, Wadi Musa...residents said. The inhabitants of southern Jordan are mainly bedouins, unlike the north...

Project file: recording in the Rift; GIS aids historic research into one...

GEO: connexion;  April 1, 2005 ;     358 words ......as a communications route between southern Jordan and Israel's Negev Desert. As such...and map its role as a bridge between southern Jordan and the Negev. The first phase of...how the wadi interconnected between southern Jordan and the Negev. While the total number...

Over 1,400 rescued from storm-struck southern Jordan

Xinhua News Agency;  December 29, 2006 ;     163 words ...Over 1,400 rescued from storm-struck southern Jordan AMMAN, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Jordanian civil defense teams...persons who had been stranded for more than 24 hours in southern Jordan by a rare snowstorm in the country, local media reported...

Menopausal symptoms and health problems of women aged 50-65 years in...

Climacteric;  August 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......years in under-privileged areas of southern Jordan. Method A multistage, random-sampling...about menopause. Conclusion Women in southern Jordan experienced multiple menopause-related...years in underprivileged areas of southern Jordan. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data for this...

Bus accident kills 12 in southern Jordan

Xinhua News Agency;  October 29, 2004 ;     111 words ...Bus accident kills 12 in southern Jordan AMMAN, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- A total of 12 people, including nine British tourists, were killed in a bus accident in southern Jordan, the official Petra News Agency reported Thursday. Another nine passengers...

Jordanian, US troops to stage joint exercises in Jordan

Xinhua News Agency;  August 12, 2002 ;     200 words ......troops will carry out routine joint military exercises in southern Jordan, the Jordanian government announced on Monday. Government...exercises will last for two weeks in the training areas in southern Jordan. He stressed the maneuver falls into the framework of the...

Police free seven men rounded up in southern Jordan violence

AP Worldstream;  November 20, 2002 ;     376 words ......Bazay'ah. He is believed to be hiding in the mountains of southern Jordan, but there has been speculation he has escaped into neighboring...against the U.S. bombing of terrorist holdouts in Afghanistan. Southern Jordan is known as a center of smugglers who traffic in arms and...

Joint U.S.-Jordanian Maneuvers Under Way

Israel Faxx;  August 21, 1995 ;     215 words ......Cairo) US and Jordanian military maneuvers are underway in southern Jordan. The military exercises were previously scheduled but come...maneuvers, known as Infinite Moonlight, are underway in southern Jordan and should last another two weeks. At the same time, the...

52 die in crash

The Independent - London;  December 15, 2001 ;     30 words ...FIFTY-TWO people were killed when a bus carrying pilgrims from Mecca crashed in southern Jordan. The vehicle exploded when it hit several parked trucks on a mountain road above the port of Aqaba.

Abandoned tent camps in Southern Jordan

Near Eastern Archaeology;  September 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...The Bedouin Ethnoarchaeological Survey Project (BESP) in southern Jordan was conducted between April 12 and May 10 1998.1 While earlier...positioned in four different environments and elevations in southern Jordan, the boundaries of each transect being established through...

Police briefly detain prominent dissident leader in troubled southern...

AP Worldstream;  November 15, 2002 ;     452 words ......Friday a prominent dissident leader and former legislator in southern Jordan in connection with a police hunt for an armed gang blamed...was questioned about, but denied links with violence in southern Jordan. I have nothing to do with the events in Maan, he said...

Bill Finlayson & Steven Mithen (ed.). The Early Prehistory of Wadi Faynan,...

Antiquity;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......STEVEN MITHEN (ed.). The Early Prehistory of Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan: Archaeological survey of Wadis Faynan, Ghuwayr and al-Bustan...case with the regional and site report of Wadi Faynan in southern Jordan. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The structure of this volume follows...