AP PHOTO - A Jordanian man looks at clothes inside a lingerie shop at a shopping mall in Amman, Jordan. Jordanians, like the rest of the world, celebrate Valentine’s Day in the 14th of February every year.

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AP PHOTO - A veiled Jordanian woman walks next to billboard with a model picture promoting a hairstyling show in Zara Expo in Amman, Jordan Tuesday Feb. 2, 2010

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AP Photo - Jordanian boys warm themselves at a workshop during their break in Amman.
Keep warm today, and remember that some people have it worse than you.
On another note, whatever happened to our child labor laws?
Never mind.

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GETTY PICTURES - Father of Jordanian Mahmoud Mahdi Zeidan, a Taliban fighter killed by US in Waziristan, looks on at the family’s home in Irbid Camp for Palestinian Refugees, on January 11, 2010 in Irbid, Jordan. Zeidan was a spiritual leader as well as a fighter with the Taliban and was killed whilst on an […]

REUTERS PHOTO: A Jordanian demonstrator steps on a picture of Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak during a protest near the Egyptian embassy in Amman January 6, 2010. The demonstrators were protesting against Wednesday’s clash at the port city of Arish, 40km (25 miles) from Egypt’s border with Gaza, between Egyptian security forces and members of a […]

AP Photo - A boy sells pickled olives from a stall on the Amman-Jerash Highway in Jordan, Sunday, Dec, 20, 2009.
Interestingly enough, Jordan produces 28,000 tonnes of olive oil a year with 24,000 tonnes consumed domestically.

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REUTERS Photo - Adnan Hadeed, a zoo keeper, kisses Warda, a five-year-old female African leopard, at the Ghamadan zoo near Amman, December 2, 2009.
Also see: Laith the Lion
Never been the Ghamadan zoo, but I think I should put it on my 2010 to-do list…

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AP Photo - Jordanian children wait for their turn to have a ride on a wood traditional swing during the second day of Muslim’s Eid al-Adha, in Amman, Jordan, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009.
The thing about Eid is that it’s a time when people typically spend two full days visiting each other. In Amman, they go […]