Sept. 2011
In This Issue
18 Staff Manager-InCharge Ammar Abu Goura Editorial Editor Karen Simon karen@ almajalagency.com Design & Production Graphic Designer Maysa Sultan maysa@ almajalagency.com Sales Senior Sales Executive Shadi Jou’aneh shadi@ almajalagency.com
Go Speaks 8 Go Headlines 10 Go Out 13 Go Shop 23 Go Healthy 33 Go Active 39 Go Drive 45 Go Explore 51 Go Community 59 Go Home 65 Go Guide 73 Go On 96
Distribution Distribution Executive Motaz Abu Hamdeh motaz@ almajalagency.com
Staff Celine S. Alaeddin Dina Mahmoud Felix PagdenRatcliffe Annisa Rochadiat Floris JanssensAndrejew Contributors Photography Motaz Abu Hamdeh Thaer Abu Hamdeh Claire Collins Hussam Da’ana Alankar Rai Spencer Smith Writing Samer Aksoy Brandon Barron Isis de Blois Greg Dukeson Ramzi Ghurani Kinzi Jones Whitney McNamara
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This month we asked some of our contributors these quick questions: What was your favorite subject when you were in school? If you could go back and learn one thing you never did, what would it be? Outside of your home, where is your fave place in Amman to sit and read quietly? What’s the one thing you think that all youth in Jordan must learn? Which university did you attend?
Brandon Barron English • Chinese • Starbucks on Mecca St. • Environmental conservation • Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri
Samer Aksoy History • Football • Cilantro • Communication skills, although it’s currently not a subject, but I think it’s crucial for when they join the workforce • Jordan University
Greg Dukeson Maths. I could always get 45 minutes sleep and even longer in a double period! • The following week’s winning lottery numbers • The bathrooms at work • How to tell the time. LOL! • The University of Life
Ramzi Ghurani Math • A surgeon, it’s so cool! • A coffee shop • Ethics, communication skills, and attention to detail • University of Victoria, in BC, Canada for undergrad and NYIT for grad
Whitney McNamara Physics Alankar Rai Computer and Biology • Science • Human Relax about big behavior • The decisions, you’ll Pontifical Mission end up where Library in Weibdeh you’re supposed • Learning foreign to be! • My languages would tiny garden — add to their vision, preferably sans and they must stray cats • How be taught the influential they negative aspects are in shaping the of smoking • future of Jordan National Open and the region University, New • University of Delhi, India Pittsburgh
Kinzi Jones Creative Writing • English grammar • My car. I don’t have time for “destination reading,” but I carry a book to all the places I am waiting • Do justly, love mercy, walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8 • United States International University in San Diego. I learned my first words of Arabic there!
Isis De Blois It was a tie between Physics, English Literature, and Art • I’d study medicine • Under a tree at the Citadel • That knowledge is everyone’s property and that what is passed off as “fact” is often just a theory — especially if it’s closed for discussion • University of London