Middle Eastern

While the official title of this trip is "Democracy 101 for Middle Eastern womyn!" My hidden agenda includes henna parties, camping on the desert with Bedouins and learning how to put on that crazy eyeliner!

... settled here and they've kept their religion and culture till now. I went to a Kariaim restaurant for lunch, real middle eastern feeling. Hit another old town, Vilnuis in the afternoon. Was nice. Cobbled, uneven, ...

We had a full middle eastern day today, first we went to the Arab quarter , and we had lunch in a Turkish restaurant then we went to the pictures to see the "son of Babylon"  in the evening we watched the Abu Dhabi F1 GP. It rained quite a lot today ...

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... about the trip to Egypt. Both Chris and Kamran were awesome. They willingly shared their knowledge and personal anecdotes about the Middle East. The lectures were so informative --from academics on the growth of cities and the history of Islam to the ...

... to Port Elizabeth was extremely long and eventful as it was.  Besides constant construction delays we found ourselves in the middle of a protest in the city of Umtata.  The people were protesting again the President who apparently gave himself a ...

... We had watched one of the movies the night before and were ready to finally see what inspired Tolkien's creation of "The Shire" and "Middle Earth." After a couple hours on the road, we end up reaching a dirt and gravel path that told us "20km to ...

Well i am home safe and sound in London after the most amazing trip ever. The middle east was such a brilliant region to travel and experience and i really hope some of you will consider it in the future. Unfortunately this is the last chapter to Tori's ...

... under our budget. So we decided to not linger too long in Jordan and do as much as we could as quickly as we could. Next on the list?  A day trip and visit the desert castles in the eastern desert before heading down to Petra and then on to ...

... paid for sex the night before. We pretended like this conversation never happened. That night, we recreated our favorite Middle Eastern dish, Kushary. The professional surfers all sat around watching surf videos and talking about surf things. At one ...

... can. I want to know the truth and the only way to get it is to uncover it myself. I've been independently studying the Middle East and the Israeli-Palestinian "conflict" for a few years now. Last year I started researched a few summer travel/volunteer ...

... experiences. It's so strange because sometimes Egypt seems so safe. I even feel like I can walk down most any street in the middle of the night by myself, and I am less likely to be bothered here than at home. But eventually some attack occurs and it ...

... of the main streets, and made our way over to the Corniche. I don't know if I have mentioned this yet, but in most Middle Eastern cities that run along the ocean, they tend to build up a really nice walking area, like a boardwalk. Sharjah had an amazing ...

Picture, for a moment, the Middle East. Got it? I'm guessing you pictured this: dirt roads, narrow lanes, mud-brick houses, and bustling bazaars. You have successfully pictured Yazd. Yazd is the kind of town that just puts a smile on your face. We ...

... safe I felt 8. The special feel ing that certain parts of it gives you 9. The good balance between western services and middle eastern culture Bad things about the middle east 1. Women dont get much rights 2.   People can rip you off a ...

... of the Hezbollah overall and very much frustrated and even angry with the situation with Israel and the American support in Middle Eastern affairs. Damascus is an ancient city and busy metropolis struggling to find a place between the lures of the ...

... as camels and horse riders thunder past me.  So many preconceptions are being broken already on the trip.  The middle eastern people are friendly, warm and curious about visitors, I feel perfectly safe there.  The 35 year daughter and ...

... some not.  All of them were beautiful and though all their outfits black, all jeweled different.  Lunch was great.  Middle Eastern and Mediterranean foods with a toss of American as well.   We down a Heineken with the food and ...

... , any country which has attracted the attention of the ever-vigilant United States now apparently deserving of being labelled ‘Middle Eastern.’ A perfectly good assertion for ‘rogue states’ like Syria and Iraq, perhaps, but to call ...

... me, stop it, or praise be to God; being able to make out some street signs in arabic and everything being in arabic; middle eastern staples like foul and falafel, kebabs, hoobz and humous; the call to prayer. I missed things being somewhat familar, ...