Events in the year 2018 in

Jordan Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive ...

Incumbents

Monarch A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College DictionarMonarch Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. Life tenure, for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority ...

– Abdullah II *

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

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Hani Mulki Hani Fawzi Mulki (also known as Hani Mulki; ar, هاني الملقي; '; born 15 October 1951) is a Jordanian politician that held several ministerial and diplomatic positions, and he was Chief Commissioner of the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Au ...

Events

*29 January – the

Royal Tank Museum The Royal Tank Museum (Arabic: ''متحف الدبابات الملكي'') is a Tank museum in Amman, Jordan. Located next to the King Abdullah II Park in Al Muqabalain, the museum was established in 2007 upon King Abdullah's directives. The mu ...

opened in

Amman Amman (; ar, عَمَّان, ' ; Ammonite language, Ammonite: 𐤓𐤁𐤕 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''Rabat ʻAmān'') is the capital and largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of 4,061,150 a ...

. * 12 August - Jordanian forces raided a militant group in Al-Salt, Balqa Governorate, leading to the deaths of four security officials and three suspected militants.

Deaths

*19 March – Fahed Fanek 83, economist. *6 May –

Jamal Naji Jamal Naji ( ar, جمال ناجي), (1 November 1954 – 6 May 2018) was a Jordanian author of Palestinian origins. He was born in 1954 in the refugee camp of Aqbat Jaber in the West Bank. He moved to Jordan in 1967, when he was in his early te ...

, novelist (b.1954) *6 November –

Ina'am Al-Mufti Ina'am Qaddoura Al-Mufti ( ar, إنعام قدورة المفتي; February 26, 1929 – 6 November 2018) was the first Jordanian woman to hold a governmental position. Biography Qaddoura established the Ministry of Social Development, Noor Al ...

, politician, Minister of Social Development (1979–1984) (b. 1929).وفاة إنعام المفتي أول وزيرة في الأردن

References

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