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<h4>Everybody likes baklava!</h4>
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<p>There's a shop in Amman's main market downtown that sells traditional Arabic sweets. I'm not sure who was more excited about this half-kilogram of baklava (which is called “<em>baklawa</em>” in Arabic)—me, or the jovial young Jordanian selling it.</p>
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