Jordan Insurance Company

Jordan Insurance Company plc
TypePublic company
XAMM:JOIN
IndustryInsurance
Founded1951; 75 years ago (1951)
FounderMohammad Ali Bdeir
Headquarters
Amman
,
Jordan
Key peopleImad Abdel Khaleq (General Manager); Othman Bdeir (Chairman)
ProductsInsurance services
Number of employees
234 (2024)
Websitewww.jicjo.com

Jordan Insurance Company (Arabic: شركة التأمين الاردنية) is a Jordanian insurance company based in Amman.

The company is listed on the Amman Stock Exchange's ASE Weighted Index with the symbol "JOIN". 10% of the company's stock is owned by Munich Re, a reinsurance company from Germany.

The Insurance Building

The company’s headquarters, known locally as the Insurance Building, is one of Amman’s landmark modernist structures and was once the city’s tallest tower. Construction began in the 1950s and finished in 1961. Initiated by the Syrian Bdeir family as a symbol of modernization and progress for the Jordan Insurance Company, it marked Amman’s first high-rise.

Designed by Lebanese architect Khalil Khoury, influenced by Modernism, the Bauhaus movement, and early Brutalist architecture, the building showcases mid-century innovation in Jordan. Its three interlocking volumes—a glazed office wing, a vertical circulation core, and a podium integrated into the slope—form a composition that engages the city’s topography.

The structure remains an icon of Amman’s mid-20th-century architectural and economic transformation.

References

  1. ↑ "Who is Jordan Insurance Company". Jordan Financial Services. Retrieved September 5, 2024.
  2. ↑ "التأمين الأردنية (JOIN)". Mubasher. Retrieved 2025-11-02.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Ali, Nayrouz (June 3, 2021). "'Insurance Building': Amman's first tower icon of modernist aesthetics". Jordan News. Retrieved October 31, 2025.
  4. ↑ Moore, Pete W. (2004-10-14). Doing Business in the Middle East: Politics and Economic Crisis in Jordan and Kuwait. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-45635-7.