Moutabal is part of the ‘ must haves’ that you discover in the Middle East, and especially in Jordan ! So let’s start our series “Jordanian cocktails and nibbles” with this week’s first episode: how to prepare moutabal, a delicious and indispensable mezze!
Tomorrow, unless some galactic accident (for example, the Moon falling into a spatio-temporal fault), the month of Ramadan will begin. Ramadan is a period of 30 days when Muslims observe a number of specific religious duties. And in a country where 92% of the population is sunni (the remaining 8% Read more…
he numbers are open to fierce debates. Some say they are 750 000. Others say they are more than 1.3 million … Those are big figures. But that day in the trafic jam..I saw an ordinary hero.
With such wonderful landscapes and an exceptional historical heritage, Jordan is obivously a great place for movie makers: Wadi Rum, Petra, the eastern desert, Amman…
What to do with its family around Amman? Whether you are expat, tourist, or backpacker, you may want – or need – to know a few places to allow children to let off steam, and parents to relax meanwhile…
n our section “the word of the month”, let’s keep it easy this month , with a light panorama of Amman. Having gone through 9000 years of history, the current capital of Jordan has witnessed many civilizations, experienced several phases of decline and growth…
The word of the month is dedicated to the role and the history of the muezzin. An essential figure in daily life in the Middle East, the muezzin is particularly in charge of calling the muslims to the five daily prayers from the minaret…
Here we are, back for the word of the week the month. In order to let you calmly digest the last word of the month (the fabulous story of the hashemites ! ) , today we will focus on the local popular clothing accessories : the shemagh , and its twins the keffiyeh and the mandil !
Today, I wandered in Amman streets, trying to grab some food…So let’s discover together some gourmandise shops I just found in order to warm up in this ending winter in Amman… Here are two adresses to be recommended: The first one is actually quite famous, as it referenced in the Read more…
Let’s begin this new category “word of the month” with a quite important word, at least as far as Jordanian are concerned.
