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    <p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2016-11-18T18:39:58&#43;02:00">Fri Nov 18, 2016</time> by Alan Orth in 
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<i class="fa fa-tag" aria-hidden="true"></i>&nbsp;<a href="/tags/ajloun" rel="tag">Ajloun</a>, <a href="/tags/olives" rel="tag">Olives</a>

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<p><a href="http://wildjordan.com/">Wild Jordan</a> has an ingenious day trip where you pay <em>them</em> to take <em>you</em> to pick olives on a farm in Ajloun — the family who owns the farm even comes out to watch you and give you tips! Like I said: genius. Jokes aside, it was actually a lot of fun, and the point is to educate you about the olive harvest and its importance to people in the region.</p>
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    <h2 class="blog-post-title" dir="auto"><a href="https://picturingjordan.com/2016/11/contemporary-arab-design-jrf-showroom/">Contemporary Arab Design at the Jordan River Foundation Showroom</a></h2>
    <p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2016-11-07T15:28:23&#43;03:00">Mon Nov 07, 2016</time> by Alan Orth in 
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<i class="fa fa-tag" aria-hidden="true"></i>&nbsp;<a href="/tags/amman" rel="tag">Amman</a>, <a href="/tags/community" rel="tag">Community</a>

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            <h4>Simple, rustic design fuses traditional objects with new styles</h4>
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<p>The <a href="https://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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    <p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2016-10-11T12:06:06&#43;03:00">Tue Oct 11, 2016</time> by Alan Orth in 
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<i class="fa fa-tag" aria-hidden="true"></i>&nbsp;<a href="/tags/mosque" rel="tag">Mosque</a>, <a href="/tags/aqaba" rel="tag">Aqaba</a>

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<p>The best way to describe the Sheikh Zayed mosque would be &ldquo;the pearl of Aqaba.&rdquo; There is a lot to love about this picturesque mosque by the Jordanian seaside, but its crown jewel — to continue the analogy — is the impeccable Arabic calligraphy inlaid in its facade. Sadly, Aqaba itself <a href="https://picturingjordan.com/2016/10/aqaba-dirty-disappointing/">isn't much to write home about</a>.</p>
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