Stay-at-home-vacation: Jordan is beautiful!

Encouraging Jordanian nationals to explore their own back yard rather than vacation abroad, Finding out why bottled water bottles blue, and Hariri decides to unveil more than just a political agenda.

Jordan has its own hidden secrets and resorts and retreats for the holidayer: antiquity, beach hideouts as Aqaba beach, spas, and more to offer...

My Treasure: Kinziblogs [3]

Revealing the Jordanian “Stay-Cation”

Taking the travel or abroad out of vacation: "Wahoo! “*claps hands*. Ministry of Tourism to unveil the “Jordan is Beautiful” campaign to encourage those vaca-dinaar to stay in our fair desert land with discount incentives": Khetam Malkawi reports: "Preparations are under way for the “Jordan is Beautiful” campaign that aims at encouraging Jordanians to spend their vacations in the country, a government official said on Sunday."

Blog Jordan [4]

Pleasure writings for cultural interaction

Write your heart out! "In www.hubpages.com I found a delightful website that gives you the opportunity to write, write and write; in fact to write till your heart’s content. The website has established itself as a community of writers from all over the world to put forward and exchange input in a pleasant interactive way where you frequently receive feedback and comments from the awesome hubbing community that has been built into the hundreds of thousands, from America, Europe, India, and different countries of the world."

Uxsoup [5]

Why is “Water” Blue? [Guest Post]

"This is a guest post by Joe, (Joe’s Box). In UX design everything counts, even the colors, and here’s Joe tackling the color of water bottles in Lebanon. Enjoy it! I know I did…" "Yesterday in the supermarket I needed to buy a bottle of water, I went directly to the beverage section and found myself in front of a big wall full of boring copycat blue bottles… Research has shown that color influences our emotions.”the first point of interaction is shaped by the color, and color is the most memorable sense”. "

KABOBfest [6]

Hariri’s Striptease

Sound like a titillating prospect, seeing this politician exposed?: "Saad Hariri, Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, put on a little bit of a show during a speech he made on March 13th, 2011. Then, hundreds of thousands of March 14th supporters rallied on Martyr’s Square in Beirut and demanded that Hizballah give up its weapons…that’s pretty much it. Yes, anti-Shia paranoia and idolizing Hariri appear to be the only two things around which Lebanon’s Sunnis and some of their Maronite Christian counterparts can rally."