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      <title>Cleanliness Comes From Faith</title>
      <link>https://picturingjordan.com/2017/07/cleanliness-comes-from-faith/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2017 16:15:22 +0300</pubDate>
      
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        &lt;img src=&#34;https://picturingjordan.com/2017/07/IMG_20161120_143235.jpg&#34; alt=&#34;Graffiti with Arabic inscription depicting someone putting trash in a trash can&#34; /&gt;
    
    
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        &lt;h4&gt;Graffiti in downtown Amman appeals to the faithful&lt;/h4&gt;
        
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&lt;p&gt;There is a popular notion that cleanliness is an important part of the Islamic faith, though you wouldn&amp;rsquo;t know it from walking around Jordan. I have never seen people throw coffee cups, half-eaten sandwiches, tissues, etc on the street so carelessly — and often times with such &lt;em&gt;finesse&lt;/em&gt; — as here in Jordan.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>Red, Orange, and Yellow Rice at Bab al-Yemen</title>
      <link>https://picturingjordan.com/2016/11/red-orange-yellow-rice-bab-al-yemen/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2016 12:59:44 +0200</pubDate>
      
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        &lt;img src=&#34;https://picturingjordan.com/2016/11/IMG_20161110_220626.jpg&#34; alt=&#34;All the multi-colored rice you can eat&#34; /&gt;
    
    
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        &lt;h4&gt;All the multi-colored rice you can eat&lt;/h4&gt;
        
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&lt;p&gt;You haven&amp;rsquo;t lived until you and your friends have eaten seventeen different colors of rice, meat, and sauces while sitting on the floor at the &lt;em&gt;Bab al-Yemen&lt;/em&gt; restaurant in Amman. If my experience is anything to go by, every item on the menu is downright delicious — including the humongous, flame-kissed flatbread that would be almost as fascinating to see being made as it was to eat.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>Contemporary Arab Design at the Jordan River Foundation Showroom</title>
      <link>https://picturingjordan.com/2016/11/contemporary-arab-design-jrf-showroom/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:28:23 +0300</pubDate>
      
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        &lt;img src=&#34;https://picturingjordan.com/2016/11/IMG_20161104_130900.jpg&#34; alt=&#34;Simple, rustic design fuses traditional objects with new styles&#34; /&gt;
    
    
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        &lt;h4&gt;Simple, rustic design fuses traditional objects with new styles&lt;/h4&gt;
        
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&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&#34;http://jordanriver.jo&#34;&gt;Jordan River Foundation&lt;/a&gt; has a showroom on Rainbow Street where they &lt;em&gt;brilliantly&lt;/em&gt; showcase traditional, everyday objects from the region in a fresh, modern way. It&amp;rsquo;s like someone went and replaced all the things in your grandma&amp;rsquo;s rural kitchen with newer, brightly accented ones. All of the wood, cloth, and clay work here is produced by people in local communities, and, as far as I know, the proceeds from sales go back to supporting them.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>King Hussein Mosque at Night</title>
      <link>https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/king-hussein-mosque-night/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2016 11:54:07 +0300</pubDate>
      
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        &lt;img src=&#34;https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/DSC_0010.jpg&#34; alt=&#34;Amman&amp;#39;s King Hussein mosque at night&#34; /&gt;
    
    
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        &lt;h4&gt;Amman&amp;#39;s King Hussein mosque at night&lt;/h4&gt;
        
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&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Hussein_Mosque&#34;&gt;King Hussein mosque&lt;/a&gt; was built in 2005 and is the largest mosque in Jordan. I haven&amp;rsquo;t visited it yet, but I&amp;rsquo;ve spent quite a few evenings admiring it from a balcony in the &lt;em&gt;Khalda&lt;/em&gt; neighborhood of West Amman.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>Buying Baklava in Amman</title>
      <link>https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/buying-baklava-amman/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2016 11:15:16 +0300</pubDate>
      
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        &lt;img src=&#34;https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/IMG_20160810_160953.jpg&#34; alt=&#34;Young child smiling and wrapping up baklava in a shop in Amman&#34; /&gt;
    
    
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        &lt;h4&gt;Everybody likes baklava!&lt;/h4&gt;
        
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&lt;p&gt;There&amp;rsquo;s a shop in one of Amman&amp;rsquo;s downtown markets that sells traditional sweets. I&amp;rsquo;m not sure who was more excited about this half kilo of &lt;em&gt;baklawa&lt;/em&gt; — me, or the jovial young Jordanian selling it.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>Saint Thaddeus Church in Amman</title>
      <link>https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/saint-thaddeus-church-amman/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2016 14:58:34 +0300</pubDate>
      
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        &lt;img src=&#34;https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/IMG_20160919_141959.jpg&#34; alt=&#34;Armenian church with pointy steeple&#34; /&gt;
    
    
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        &lt;h4&gt;Easily one of the most unique buildings in Amman&lt;/h4&gt;
        
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&lt;p&gt;Even if the number of mosques in Amman &lt;em&gt;didn&amp;rsquo;t&lt;/em&gt; outnumber churches by a factor of ten, the Saint Thaddeus Armenian Apostolic church would still stand out. The unique architecture caught my eye once and then I started seeing it every time I glanced at Jabal Al-Ashrafieh. After weeks of squinting and asking myself &amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;Is that an Armenian church?&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rdquo; I finally went on an scavenger hunt and found it.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>Don&#39;t WhatsApp and Drive</title>
      <link>https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/dont-whatsapp-and-drive/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2016 14:10:48 +0300</pubDate>
      
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        &lt;img src=&#34;https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/IMG_20160810_162505.jpg&#34; alt=&#34;Billboard in Amman cautions against using your phone while driving&#34; /&gt;
    
    
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        &lt;h4&gt;Billboard in Amman cautions against using your phone while driving&lt;/h4&gt;
        
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&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;rsquo;t even read Arabic but I&amp;rsquo;m pretty sure that billboard is telling people to &lt;em&gt;put their fucking phones down while driving&lt;/em&gt;. It&amp;rsquo;s like an epidemic here. I&amp;rsquo;ve never seen people look less at the road while driving than here in Amman.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>Eid Mubarak in Your Neighborhood Dumpster</title>
      <link>https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/eid-mubarak-neighborhood-dumpster/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:36:00 +0300</pubDate>
      
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        &lt;img src=&#34;https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/sheep-dumpster-eid-al-adha.jpg&#34; alt=&#34;Sheep carcass lazily discarded in neighborhood dumpster&#34; /&gt;
    
    
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        &lt;h4&gt;Sheep carcass lazily discarded in neighborhood dumpster&lt;/h4&gt;
        
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&lt;p&gt;As Muslims around the world are busy wishing each other a blessed &lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_al-Adha&#34;&gt;Eid al-Adha&lt;/a&gt;, some poor bastard has to clean up this lazily discarded sheep carcass from my local dumpster (note the entrails spilled below). Keep it classy, Jordan.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>No Noise Near the Noisy Mosque</title>
      <link>https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/no-noise-near-noisy-mosque/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2016 19:32:36 +0300</pubDate>
      
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        &lt;img src=&#34;https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/no-noise-near-mosque.jpg&#34; alt=&#34;Sign forbidding sound near mosque on Rainbow Street, Amman&#34; /&gt;
    
    
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        &lt;h4&gt;Sign forbidding sound near mosque on Rainbow Street, Amman&lt;/h4&gt;
        
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&lt;p&gt;The irony is rich with this one, because this mosque has a sound system from another planet. If I wasn&amp;rsquo;t worried about my personal safety I&amp;rsquo;d put up a sign right next to it saying: &lt;em&gt;Please mute your mosque, there is a sleeping Alan 50m away&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

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