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Snow! All over the country. Today I am mobilizing people to donate blankets and food and will bring them to mountain villages tomorrow morning where they have the greatest need. My goal is 300 blankets. One town had three feet of snow. Most just got a dusting but the temps in the interior are...
During a break from hiking to the Monastery at Petra, Musa (Moses), a Bedouin from the Ammarin tribe in Southern Jordan, shares about his life.
With newspapers reporting on the Arab Spring in North Africa and the Middle East, people often ask me Is it safe to travel to Tunisia? As a foreigner working in Tunisia I would like to share about my experience living here.
I have been in Tunisia with my family for five years. ...
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“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust
Jordan has some of the most spectacular sites I have ever seen. In a...
While Engaging Cultures Travel tries to stay apolitical, I have to acknowledge Tunisia’s historic elections this week. Currently I am sitting in a café listening to people around me discuss the unofficial returns. Official results will be announced in an hour or so...
By: Clayton - Summer Intern for Engaging Cultures.
I recently discovered the hardest question you can ask an Arab: Fairuz or Umm Kulthum?
Taxi drivers in Amman typically answer this question:
“This is too hard.”
or
“You cannot ask this question....
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Voluntourist Newsletter - Engaging Cultures in Jordan Through Service
"Creativity. We hear this term as though it is truly familiar to us, as though we press beyond its borders daily. In the realm...
Last weekend I brought a group of seven 40 and 50 year-olds to southern Tunisia, the land of unique underground Berber dwellings and the exotic Sahara Desert. Like many visitors on group tours to the desert here, our plans included a camel ride through the dunes and an evening meal. ...
Staying at the Ammarin Bedouin Camp within the Petra Archaeological Reserve helps the traveler enter into the atmosphere of ancient Petra. How jarring it is, then, when they pull up to the front gate and feel like they’ve walked up to the Disneyland gift shops.
My preferred way to...
Coming off the ten year anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, fear and distrust between Americans and Arabs remains high. The biggest contributing factor to this, in my opinion, is that we still don’t know each other.
I’ll admit, getting to know...
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