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WFP Fundraising event 2011

By Lara On May 18, 2011 · Add Comment

Almost a year ago I remember getting a beautiful thank you later from the Head of the United Nations World Food Programme (UNWFP) for volunteering my time at the UNWFP Fundraising Gala Dinner in March. For a year or so after that we have stayed in touch, mainly because I find Mrs. Faten Hindi of [...]

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Facebook’s Dislike Button

By Lara On May 17, 2011 · 2 Comments

For years now, Facebook has evolved into bring what they have believed to enhance the user experience. They brought in polls, changed the gallery viewer, updating their policies notoriously and even allowing group admins to add you to groups that you don’t want to be part of, on most occasions most people would tweet or [...]

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NYIT Talent Show ’11 this Friday

By Lara On May 16, 2011 · Add Comment

The New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) in Amman is holding its fourth annual Talent Show this Friday, May 20th at the NYIT Graduate Campus (6th Circle – Zahran Street). Popular to have been organized by the Office of Student Affairs and the Student Life Organization, this year’s Talent Show is organized by NYIT’s very [...]

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Tweetup: The Royal Jordanian Experience

By Lara On May 14, 2011 · 10 Comments

Although the first official tweet up on a plane was in the world was back in February of 2010 organized by Bombardier, Royal Jordanian and the Online project have proved to have been pioneers to bring together the first plane tweet up not in Jordan only but in the region. If you tweet, you [...]

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Souk Jara 2011

By Lara On May 13, 2011 · 4 Comments

So it’s Friday the 13th and many people know/think of this day as one of those superstitious ones, Stay away from black cats and ladders, your mom might tell you is one of many Friday the 13th superstitions out there, some have taken it to extremes of telling horror stories, but here in Amman, today [...]

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Social Norms Part I: Violence Against Women

By Lara On May 12, 2011 · 5 Comments

I have been thinking for quite a while now that as Arabs we do tend to bend toward our social and cultural norms, there are times (and those times are many) that we deviate away from those norms but one way or another seem to come back and bend to those norms.

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WFP Fundraising event 2011

NYIT Talent Show ’11 this Friday

Souk Jara 2011

Social Norms Part I: Violence Against Women

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