ArabianBusiness.com compiles an annual list of the World’s most influential Arabs, called the Power List. It includes 100 people from very diverse fields; business tycoons, entertainment figures, intellectuals, journalists, media gurus, and others. Now I don’t know about their criteria, and many people commented in protest as to how the list was compiled and some of the figures on it or missing from it, but what drew my attention is that out of the 100, only two were from Jordan; Rima Khalaf Huneidi (32), and Fadi Ghandour (82).
Palestinian film director Hany Abu Assad came in number four on the list, for what his film Paradise Now achieved. Waddah Khanfar, director of Al Jazeera Network, came in number three, while Al Jazeera reporter and presenter Ghassan Bin Jiddu came in number 24.
I was wondering… what, in your opinion, is the reason there are only 2 Jordanians in the list? And if you were to think of a Jordanian who should be in the list of the World’s Most Influential Arabs, who would it be?
Palestinian film director Hany Abu Assad came in number four on the list, for what his film Paradise Now achieved. Waddah Khanfar, director of Al Jazeera Network, came in number three, while Al Jazeera reporter and presenter Ghassan Bin Jiddu came in number 24.
I was wondering… what, in your opinion, is the reason there are only 2 Jordanians in the list? And if you were to think of a Jordanian who should be in the list of the World’s Most Influential Arabs, who would it be?
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