Big Cypress Research opens first Middle East office in Amman, Jordan

Big Cypress Research LLC, a U.S.-based strategic research and public affairs intelligence firm, has opened its first Middle East office in Amman, Jordan.

The Amman office will function as a regional hub for Arabic-language research, open-source media monitoring and cross-border due diligence. It will support work involving economic sanctions and illicit finance, foreign influence, reputation risk, public affairs and rapid-response analysis across Jordan and the wider Levant.

The expansion brings region-based collection and analysis capabilities to complement Big Cypress Research's U.S. Operations. The Jordan office will monitor Arabic-language print, broadcast, digital and social media; translate and assess emerging narratives; and help map political, commercial and influence networks. The time-zone difference will enable overnight developments in the United States to be reviewed before the U.S. Business day begins.

"Developments affecting Israel, Jordan and U.S. interests are often visible first in Arabic-language reporting, local business records and regional political networks," Said Lucas M. Greenberg, president of Big Cypress Research. "An Amman presence gives us the language capacity, local context and extended coverage hours to identify those developments earlier and assess them more accurately."

The firm selected Amman based on its status as Jordan's political, diplomatic and commercial center and its access to Arabic-speaking research talent with Levant expertise. The office will work with regional analysts and subject-matter specialists, while client management, final review and quality control remain centered in the United States.

Initial priorities include monitoring regional political and media narratives; tracing sanctions-evasion, procurement and illicit-finance networks; researching foreign influence and reputational exposure; conducting corporate and individual due diligence; and tracking policy or regulatory developments relevant to clients in the Middle East.

"The purpose of this expansion is not simply to translate more material," Greenberg said. "It is to understand which sources matter, how narratives and financial networks move across borders and what those developments mean for a client's decisions."

Work through the Amman office will rely on lawful open sources, public records, corporate registries, licensed research platforms and other authorized sources, operating in coordination with the U.S.-based team under the firm's existing research and confidentiality standards.