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<title>Contemporary Arab Design at the Jordan River Foundation Showroom</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:28:23 +0300</pubDate>
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<img src="https://picturingjordan.com/2016/11/IMG_20161104_130900.jpg" alt="Simple, rustic design fuses traditional objects with new styles" />
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<h4>Simple, rustic design fuses traditional objects with new styles</h4>
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<p>The <a href="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&rsquo;s like someone went and replaced all the things in your grandma&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.</p>
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<p></p>
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<p>I commend the <a href="http://www.qrf.org/">Queen Rania Foundation</a> for another seriously impressive initiative. Keep up the good work!</p></description>
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<title>King Hussein Mosque at Night</title>
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<link>https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/king-hussein-mosque-night/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2016 11:54:07 +0300</pubDate>
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<guid>https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/king-hussein-mosque-night/</guid>
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<img src="https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/DSC_0010.jpg" alt="Amman&#39;s King Hussein mosque at night" />
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<h4>Amman&#39;s King Hussein mosque at night</h4>
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<p>The <a href="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&rsquo;t visited it yet, but I&rsquo;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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<p><em>Technical: Nikon D3100, ten-second exposure time, post processed from RAW with <a href="https://www.darktable.org/">darktable</a>.</em></p></description>
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<title>Buying Baklava in Amman</title>
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<link>https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/buying-baklava-amman/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2016 11:15:16 +0300</pubDate>
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<img src="https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/IMG_20160810_160953.jpg" alt="Young child smiling and wrapping up baklava in a shop in Amman" />
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<h4>Everybody likes baklava!</h4>
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<p>There&rsquo;s a shop in one of Amman&rsquo;s downtown markets that sells traditional sweets. I&rsquo;m not sure who was more excited about this half kilo of <em>baklawa</em> — me, or the jovial young Jordanian selling it.</p>
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<title>Saint Thaddeus Church in Amman</title>
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<link>https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/saint-thaddeus-church-amman/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2016 14:58:34 +0300</pubDate>
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<guid>https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/saint-thaddeus-church-amman/</guid>
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<img src="https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/IMG_20160919_141959.jpg" alt="Armenian church with pointy steeple" />
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<h4>Easily one of the most unique buildings in Amman</h4>
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<p>Even if the number number of mosques in Amman <em>didn&rsquo;t</em> outnumber churches by a factor of ten, the Saint Thaddeus Armenian Apostolic church would still stand out. It caught my eye once a few weeks ago and then I started seeing it every time I glanced at Jabal Al-Ashrafieh. After weeks of squinting and asking myself &ldquo;<em>Is that an Armenian church?</em>&rdquo; I finally went on an epic scavenger hunt and found it.</p>
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<title>Don't WhatsApp and Drive</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2016 14:10:48 +0300</pubDate>
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<img src="https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/IMG_20160810_162505.jpg" alt="Billboard in Amman cautions against using your phone while driving" />
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<h4>Billboard in Amman cautions against using your phone while driving</h4>
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<p>I can&rsquo;t even read Arabic but I&rsquo;m pretty sure that billboard is telling people to <em>put their fucking phones down while driving</em>. It&rsquo;s like an epidemic here. I&rsquo;ve never seen people look less at the road while driving than here in Amman.</p>
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<title>Eid Mubarak in Your Neighborhood Dumpster</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:36:00 +0300</pubDate>
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<img src="https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/sheep-dumpster-eid-al-adha.jpg" alt="Sheep carcass lazily discarded in neighborhood dumpster" />
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<h4>Sheep carcass lazily discarded in neighborhood dumpster</h4>
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<p>As Muslims around the world are busy wishing each other a blessed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_al-Adha">Eid al-Adha</a>, 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.</p>
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<title>No Noise Near the Noisy Mosque</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2016 19:32:36 +0300</pubDate>
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<img src="https://picturingjordan.com/2016/09/no-noise-near-mosque.jpg" alt="Sign forbidding sound near mosque on Rainbow Street, Amman" />
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<h4>Sign forbidding sound near mosque on Rainbow Street, Amman</h4>
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<p>The irony is rich with this one, because this mosque has a sound system from another planet. If I wasn&rsquo;t worried about my personal safety I&rsquo;d put up a sign right next to it saying: <em>Please mute your mosque, there is a sleeping Alan 50m away</em>.</p>
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