Neoliberal Urban Transformations in the Arab City: The case of Amman Abstract Neoliberalization processes have swept the world since their operationalization in the 1970s. Cities have been at the forefront of neoliberalism driven transformation, resulting in a network of uneven development that stretches all around the world, in all its various contexts. The Arab cities have not been exempt from the reach of neoliberalization processes; Arab cities have undergone massive transformations in the past four decades. However, they have been understudied and under analyzed in that regard. The variegated nature of neoliberalization processes requires deep analyses of the underlying mechanism that facilitated them in various local context.