Simply put, Jordan is misunderstood. On the one hand, some see Jordan as an unknown quantity — a miscellaneous Arab state that’s neither the Instagrammable Morocco nor the bold glamour of Dubai. On the other hand, there’s the Petra brigade — backpacking, travel-ticking tourists who catch a flight to Amman, go to Petra, and then head straight home. ‘We went to Jordan’, they say. No, you did not. Perhaps it’s understandable — our media certainly doesn’t do the Levant any favours. Dominated by coverage of political turmoil and sectarian strife; one could think the Mashriq, ‘the land where the sun…