Jordan
A Movie for Troubled Times in the Arab World Destination: Jordan Movie: Captain Abu Raed (2009) written and directed by Amin Matalqa A Guest Post by Jane Boursaw You know a movie is good when you’re still thinking about it years later. Such is the case with Captain Abu Raed, a touching, uplifting film I [...]
PDF Like a deadly domino game, the unrest keeps coming in the Arab world. Tunisia, Yemin, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, Algeria, Jordan. Most travelers are shying away from, for example, tourist-dependent Egypt. In private correspondence, an American who lives there reports seeing 30-200 people in the Valley of the Kings (mostly Egyptians), where normally there would be [...]
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Destination: Jordan Book: Staircase of A Thousand Steps by Masha Hamilton I am looking in my travel library for books to share with you that I have read that made me yearn to travel. Not travel literature by strict definition, but sometimes historical novels bring a traditional culture so vividly to life that I want [...]
