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45 results for Amman

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Article

Artistic merit

16 November 2017

Jordan’s capital is using its creativity – and a whole lot of calligraphy – to rewrite its reputation for art and design.

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Article

Africa/Middle East

11 November 2014

Testing times in East Africa, economic elation in West Africa and everything in between.

Radio

The Voyager - Episode 16: Amman

2 December 2015

This week we head to Jordan to visit a city that’s always been a centre of calm in a fractious region. As the area’s major cities struggle to contain a multitude of crises, we hear why business is booming in Amman. Monoc…

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Article

Africa/Middle East

19 June 2014

The start-up possibilities of Amman and where South Africa's high-speed rail network extension could lead.

Film

Jordan's creative scene

21 November 2017

There's a budding entrepreneurial scene in Amman, Jordan's charming capital. We profile the young people who are making things happen, whether it's by starting design studios, cafés, galleries or small businesses.

Radio

The Menu - Food Neighbourhoods 59: Amman, Jebel Weibdeh

7 November 2017

A tour of one of the Jordanian capital's oldest districts which has become a haven for Amman's community of artists and food artisans.

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Article

Africa/Middle

18 August 2011

A pan-Middle Eastern science venture, a Lebanese brain drain and an oil boost from Namibia.

Radio

Monocle on Design - Watch closely

17 October 2017

Product designer and consultant Jared Mankelow on why launching a watch kept business ticking. Plus: exploring Amman Design Week and a turn at the British Ceramics Biennial.

Radio

The Late Edition, episode 481

4 September 2013

Dr James D Boys sets the day’s news agenda, we look at the Philippines as a rising diplomatic and military power, and tour the startup companies of Amman.

Monocle Minute

Connecting people

2 September 2016

Amman is an Arab capital with more will than most when it comes to investing in design – Jordan’s government even furnished the city with its very own typeface – but until now it has never had a public-transport map. Local…

Monocle Minute

Set the bar high

23 December 2015

Raise a glass to small enterprises this Christmas with a beer brewed in the Holy Land itself. Carakale is Jordan’s first micro-brewery, situated just outside Amman and slowly gathering a roaring trade. It’s already on tap…

Radio

The Menu - Keeping the legacy alive

26 February 2016

We discover how three sisters are keeping their grandmother’s heritage alive through the means of great hospitality in Amman and hear about a push to bring great Melbourne coffee to Jakarta. Plus: why robots are supporting…

Radio

The Entrepreneurs, episode 99

4 September 2013

We visit three Americans in Berlin who are joining with the locals in a craft-brew revolution, head to Amman, which is quickly becoming the Arab world’s start-up capital, and speak with a fragrance entrepreneur who sources…

Radio

The Entrepreneurs, episode 118

15 January 2014

We eat our way through the Americana food craze in Amman, meet the man who resurrected a favourite spirit from the Belle Époque, break open the business model of Girl Meets Dress - a company that rents out designer dresses…

Monocle Minute

Don’t pass on it

9 October 2015

Four years of regional strife around Jordan hasn’t been kind to the country’s tourism industry. Hefty drops in occupancy in Amman’s hotels caused the government to subsidise the sector’s electricity demands this summer and…

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Article

Business

17 October 2009

A Canadian coffee shop in Kandahar, Chinese internet junkies go cold Turkey, and Jordan gets wired.