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Madaba Olive Festival in Madaba
A distinct, independently confirmed Madaba Olive Festival could not be clearly verified; available sources instead document a separately located National Olive Festival held at Mecca Mall in Amman and a differently located Umm Qais Olive Festival in the north. Madaba's own olive harvest, typically in October and November, appears to be marked by informal community celebration rather than one centrally organized, dedicated festival.
A dedicated, independently confirmed Madaba Olive Festival proved difficult to distinguish from two related but separate phenomena documented in available sources: the National Olive Festival and Rural Products Exhibition, a major event organized by the National Agricultural Research Centre in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and held at Mecca Mall in Amman rather than in Madaba itself, and the Umm Qais Olive Festival, a separately documented annual event in the northern village of Umm Qais celebrating Jordan's olive harvesting tradition with tastings, folk music and a marketplace for handmade crafts and organic products.