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May 4, 2010

“What’s Jordan?” Because of “Sandra’s new adopted son”

Filed under: Life, Politics — Tags: , — Kamel Al-Asmar @ 4:34 pm

In her video accepting the visionary award of YouTube (November 2008), Queen Rania spoofed David Letterman with 10 reasons of why she launched her channel against stereotypes on YouTube, 9 of those reasons are funny ones and one of the 9 is: “Because I was tired of people thinking Jordan was just a basketball player…”.

Three weeks in USA, I always make my way down to the lobby from the 18th floor. In that long journey everyday I meet new people, being in a hotel will tell them that I’m at least from another state if not from another country; that what makes the question: “Where are you from?” something that I used to hear all day long.

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May 3, 2010

Dr. Fayyad speaks at Amman Tech Tuesdays (#AmmanTT) First Event

Filed under: Events, Technology — Tags: , , — Kamel Al-Asmar @ 3:30 pm
AmmanTT

AmmanTT

Tomorrow I will be missing the first #AmmanTT event that will be held in Amman as the beginning of a new platform for the tech-community by the tech-community. Amman Tech Tuesdays will bring engineers, business people, experts, investors, marketers, entrepreneurs, students and regular enthusiasts from the technology community together on the first Tuesday of every month in a casual but structured setting. The main goal behind the program is to organically fortify and interweave ties in Amman to further our position as the region’s new Tech Hub.

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