At the beginning, it was just an idea. An idea of an adventure that was closer to a dream than it was to reality. Can a small group of people who are less in number than the fingers of a hand, with zero financial resources, establish a center for political studies and play a pioneering role in providing “more accurate and deeper understanding” of the issues of Jordan and the Middle East? We did not hesitate to answer this question and carried out repetitive attempts to obtain the required approvals and “permits” until we achieved what we yearned for in late 1999...