Picture Of The Week

09Nov09

From: http://www.flickr.com/photos/friend_faraway/2681424933/

The photographer said: ”I frequented quite regularly at his shoes whenever I go to Bab Jabiye in Damascus Old city. I managed to capture his portrait and surprisingly giving me a perfect smile!”
Old City, Damascus, Syria.

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Sheftou Mn Biid

02Nov09

I just saw this video a few hours ago on MTV Arabia. I really like it. I think it’s one of the best Arabic music videos I’ve ever seen. Not extremely corny with a guy singing something like “the color of the sky doesn’t please you, I’ll erase it and re-color it, stars fall, I’ll hang them [...]

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Encore

16Oct09

I really like this cartoon so I thought I’d repeat an old post I had written in July of ‘07. Here it is:
I found this an a person’s blog who once commented on my blog. So thank you, person who once commented on my blog, because I was lacking inspiration and now I have something [...]

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Speaking Of Captain Majid…

12Sep09

I try not to say this very often but: LOL! This brings back memories!

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Bab Al Hara And Others

04Sep09

Middle East hungry for TV during Ramadan
By Daniela Deane
For CNN

LONDON, England (CNN) — Ramadan, that holy month of fasting and dawn-to-dusk abstinence, is a key period in the Muslim calendar apart from its standing as one of the five Pillars of Islam.
More typically associated with praying, fasting and religious contemplation, it’s also the month [...]

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DailyHappiness

26Aug09

All righty now. After that babbling mess of a post I just wrote I’ll try to redeem myself with something a bit more informative, useful and succinct.
With the help of a magazine, I found a great website that will send little articles or books to your e-mail everyday (or you can set it so [...]

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The Village Market

04Aug09

Sorry I haven’t written in awhile. We were traveling and I didn’t have internet access. We just got back from a small town outside of LA. It was really pretty and the weather was so cool and refreshing. The best thing though, was that we met some Syrians. Near the house we were at, was [...]

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When Google Isn’t Being Helpful…

01Mar08

So I’ve been trying to find this story I saw in a National Geographic magazine, but haven’t had much luck. Basically it’s about the guy who invented the ice cream cone. He was Syrian. Cool story, huh? That’s all I can remember.

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Prilliant

23Feb08

In the Arabic alphabet there is no letter “p”. This can be quite funny at times. For instance, a sign will read in English: Bublic Bus. Hip hop is pronounced, “hib-hob”, panda is pronounced “banda” and so on. Sometimes though, they’ll see a “b” in English and think it’s a “p”. At a very nice restaurant, here in Aleppo, you [...]

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I Hope This Makes You Smile (Better yet – Laugh)

06Nov07

Some friends sent me this. Need I say that they were Brits?
To the citizens of the United States of America, in the light of your
failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern
yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your
independence,
effective today.
Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will [...]

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