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Ramallah Road in Jacksonville Florida

November 23, 2008 | 11:32 pm

I was surfing online aimlessly when i stumbled upon this:

Isn’t it awesome ?!!

I have seen towns in the USA called Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Lebanon, Palestine, Damascus, Tyre, and Alexandria .. but these are all old biblical names and/or their corresponding cities in the Middle East are very old (from the greeko-roman times) unlike Ramallah.

And for my Jordanian readers, wala eyhimkom .. here is Amman Road in Edison New Jersey:

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Another American Geography Gaffe: Where is Ramallah ?

July 23, 2008 | 3:36 pm

The recent influx of American journalists to the middle east covering Barack Obama’s tour has shown me their gross unfamiliarity of the basics of this world arena and its geography. Yesterday i posted about their confusion between Iraq & Jordan, two very distinct countries; one which they are occupying with more than 100k troops and is drenched in sectarian violence, and the other is a quite sovereign nation. You’d imagine they would know more about Iraq since they have so many people there :-) .

Anyway, today Obama is visiting Israel & the West Bank. Ramallah is in the West Bank, and this area is usually referred to in news reports using any of the following terms: Palestine, West Bank, Palestinian Territories, or Occupied Territories. At least the term “West Bank” is very politically neutral. Not like this:

For God’s sake, you just said that you are sitting infront of the Palestinian President’s building :-)

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BZU Graduation Celebration

November 22, 2007 | 11:54 am

I don’t know these people, and i did not attend that graduation celebration. However this is a video of some people celebrating graduating from Birzeit University (BZU) that i found randomly on YouTube.

I don’t know …. but there is something nice about their singing and celebration. It sounds so sincerely happy.

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Sporadic Pictures of Ramallah

November 3, 2007 | 6:07 pm

Some pictures of my beautiful Ramallah. These were taken between July and October of this year.
This post with 11 pictures could be quite a bit for low-bandwidth connections … sorry …but hey, i haven’t posted in a while. :-)

A Nice Building in Ramallah

Twin Residentials ?

(that damn stupid wire !!!)

Al Tierah

Buildings & Low Clouds

A Skyline Attempt

Tower Enthroned

( a building enthroned )

Ramallah in the distance 1

Ramallah in the distance 2

Rising Minaret

( really nice ! )

Al Tierah Circle

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Garden Moments

| 5:47 pm

Some random pictures from our garden (7akoora) back home.

Purple Depth

Pink Tentacles

… and the cat….

The cat looks down upon thy.

The cat looks down upon thy.

Cat Vision

O’ so full of wisdom !!

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