She is as beautiful and stylish as she is graceful. She is a deeply impassioned advocate for improving the lives of others, not just in Jordan, but around the world. You might find her rubbing shoulders at charity events with other humanitarian movers and shakers like Oprah and Bono one night, while the next morning she’ll be at an all-girl school in an impoverished part...
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On a chilly November morning in 2019, as dawn broke across the eastern horizon and started to spread its light over Amman’s Citadel, Coldplay greeted the day (and many of their fans) by playing songs from a their new album. Asked why they chose Jordan, the band stated they chose it because of its natural beauty and historical and cultural significance, which also reflected the...
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Way back when the Romans ruled this area, they were so impressed by Amman that they chose the city as the capital of the Roman Empire and renamed it Philadelphia after the Roman ruler Philadelphus. While they were here, they built a lot of impressive things such as the Temple of Hercules at the Amman Citadel and, just down the hill, the sole centerpiece of...
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Located about an hour-and-a-half’s drive east of Beirut , it’s not difficult to see why people find Anjar, Lebanon, safe and peaceful. Named after the Anjar Spring that lies just a little over a half mile east (it’s name in Arabic meaning “running river”), the village’s inhabitants are mostly Armenian refugees. Some fled the Ottoman genocide in 1915 Turkey while others gathered here after the Lebanese took...
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Originally named Baalbek after the Phoenician deity Baal, when the Greeks arrived to Baalbek’s location about 86 kilometers northeast of Beirut in the 3rd century B.C., they changed the city’s name to Heliopolis or “Sun City”. The Romans followed suit in 15 B.C., and under the rule of Augustus, soon built extraordinary temples dedicated to Jupiter, Bacchus, and Venus that still impress visitors nearly two...
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Okay, okay… we get it. “I can’t learn Arabic language skills in my 30s. That’s for high school and college kids, and you know what they say: ‘You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.’ I’m too old to learn.” So, yeah, we get that, and yeah, soon you’re going to be screaming for the neighborhood kids to get out of your yard. But you...
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