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Abdullah II

    His Majesty King Abdullah II, a 41st-generation direct descendant of the Prophet Mohammad, assumed his constitutional powers as monarch in 1999. He has centered his policies on the welfare of Jordan's people, focusing on national development, regional peace, and global coexistence. A key priority is youth engagement and education, coupled with economic reforms and political liberalization to enhance the private sector and prepare young Jordanians for global leadership. In diplomacy, he champions global justice and cooperation, advocating for Islamic values of tolerance and dialogue, and has consistently supported a two-state solution for regional peace.

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    Our Last Best Chance
    • Our Last Best Chance

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
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      A call for peace by one the longest serving rulers in the Middle East At a time of unprecedented upheaval in the Middle East, King Abdullah II of Jordan is almost unique in enjoying widespread popular support. He is the ultimate modern-day monarch, as comfortable at a business conference as he is at a meeting of the Arab League. In this prescient memoir-cum-manifesto, he makes an urgent plea to push for a solution to the Arab-Israeli crisis. He writes with disarming frankness about his own upbringing and warns of the brewing resentment in the region. A call to arms by the most dynamic young ruler in the Arab world, Our Last Best Chance helps explain the volatile underpinnings of the new Arab awakening.

      Our Last Best Chance
    • Ten years after Jason Miller killed his best friend in Afghanistan, another drug overdose results in him being sent to White Oaks Mental Hospital to be evaluated as a suicide risk, or so he believes. Soon, Jason realizes the one thing he has in common with the other patients: they are all alone in the world, with no one to follow up on anything being done to them. What, at first, appears to be a chance to finally get clean and start rebuilding his life becomes a desperate struggle to save himself and the other patients from the horrible realities waiting for them behind the walls of White Oaks.

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