Jordan’s Remarkable Resilience

... from the instability in Iraq and Syria. The Saudis, in turn, are always eager to support a fellow monarch lest anti-monarchical attitudes spill over to Saudi soil. Jordan’s refugee situation has been no less important. The sheer number of Syrian refugees on Jordan’s territory ( over 629,000, according to UNHCR ) has attracted development and humanitarian agencies, as well as large increases in development aid from multilateral donors, such as the EU, the UN, and the Arab Fund for Economic and Social ...