The Guardian has run an interesting photo story of “Guerrilla Artist” Banksy’s latest graffiti work on Israel’s illegal wall that winds through the West Bank. Banksy left his mark on the wall back in 2005 and has come back with other graffiti artists, in order to promote some tourist action in Bethlehem during the Christmas […]

Roundabouts, crossroads and traffic lights are the most common venues for posters and banners.

Traffic Sign reads: “Dead End”.
Stand-up posters can not exceed 1.5 meters in height, and 1 meter in width. Posters and/or banners must be placed 4.5 meters above the ground level, where there are pedestrians or cars passing beneath them.

“All Jordanians […]

Some people work and become wealthy.
Others do the same and remain poor.
Marriage fills one with energy.
Another, it drains.
Don’t trust ways.
They change.
A means flails about like a donkey’s tail.
So always add the gratitude clause:
‘if God wills’.
Then proceed.
You may be leading a donkey, no, a goat, no, who can tell?
We sit in a dark pit and […]

Via: 7iber dot com

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It’s been a great past 5 days for me. Work has been great. Going to Dubai was pretty sweet. But I have to say that the highlight was spending Thursday night and Friday morning in Wadi Rum. It’s good to get away from all the metal and glass, air conditioned, bubble of a city […]

My favorite photo of the moment…

REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed(JORDAN)

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Many passengers were left stranded Thursday night as the dreadful Windows blue screen of death struck Queen Alia International Airport and no one could figure out when their planes were leaving. According to inside sources, passengers were told to press CTRL+ALT+DEL and then re-enter the terminal in Safe Mode.

On another note…we all miss you very […]

Tololy emailed me a picture she stopped to take on her way to Salt. It’s basically my Jordanian retirement plan.

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Note: The Arabic version of the above (which was too tiny to photograph) has the calories at 640.

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