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<h2class="blog-post-title"dir="auto"><ahref="https://picturingjordan.com/2016/11/red-orange-yellow-rice-bab-al-yemen/">Red, Orange, and Yellow Rice at Bab al-Yemen</a></h2>
<pclass="blog-post-meta"><timedatetime="2016-11-27T12:59:44+02:00">Sun Nov 27, 2016</time> by Alan Orth in
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<h4>All the multi-colored rice you can eat</h4>
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<p>You haven’t lived until you and your friends have eaten seventeen different colors of rice, meat, and sauces while sitting on the floor at the <em>Bab al-Yemen</em> 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.</p>
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<h2class="blog-post-title"dir="auto"><ahref="https://picturingjordan.com/2016/11/contemporary-arab-design-jrf-showroom/">Contemporary Arab Design at the Jordan River Foundation Showroom</a></h2>
<pclass="blog-post-meta"><timedatetime="2016-11-07T15:28:23+03:00">Mon Nov 07, 2016</time> by Alan Orth in
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<h4>Simple, rustic design fuses traditional objects with new styles</h4>
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<p>The <ahref="http://jordanriver.jo">Jordan River Foundation</a> has a showroom on Rainbow Street where they <em>brilliantly</em> showcase traditional, everyday objects from the region in a fresh, modern way. It’s like someone went and replaced all the things in your grandma’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.</p>
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<h2class="blog-post-title"dir="auto"><ahref="https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/king-hussein-mosque-night/">King Hussein Mosque at Night</a></h2>
<pclass="blog-post-meta"><timedatetime="2016-09-29T11:54:07+03:00">Thu Sep 29, 2016</time> by Alan Orth in
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<h4>Amman's King Hussein mosque at night</h4>
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<p>The <ahref="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Hussein_Mosque">King Hussein mosque</a> was built in 2005 and is the largest mosque in Jordan. I haven’t visited it yet, but I’ve spent quite a few evenings admiring it from a balcony in the <em>Khalda</em> neighborhood of West Amman.</p>
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