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My interview with Microsoft Feed has been published Check it out:
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Source: JO Magazine
Jordan’s government is hoping to expand the country’s appeal in ‘niche’ tourism sectors. But maybe some niches are best left unexplored.

(Emily Carwell)
THE GROWTH OF TOURISM is expected to provide opportunities and jobs for Jordan’s young people. But for some, particularly the Bedouin of the south, the opportunities it’s providing are not quite the [...]

Just had one super community night! NO, I’m not saying this because I was the speaker hehehe I had a rocking audience who had questions about everything. The session went on for 2 hours without any breaks! That was community spirit
The community night was about Business Intelligence & SharePoint, we discussed [...]

I never imagined myself writing such an Article about Jordan. Foremost we as Jordanians try to reflect a good image of our country to attract more investors and tourists. But enough is enough! after all If we don’t take serious actions or at least a stand towards bad customer service and experience the good [...]

3al 3adeh nazel nam be hal omeh, bs this time a’7oko masdoom rasmi… most of my posts are oriented on small stuff, guys loving shawerma, or keaf ½ banat el ballad shayfeen 7alhom 3al fady o homeh ma3ateeb! hala2 today’s post is going to be about a bad habit that Jordanian’s developed through the years, [...]

As usual it’s 11:30pm, and we parked our car infront of karam share3 mekka eating 3arabi and drinking pepsi getting ready for a long night of trix or code hacking!
Men don deolt sere, I asked the guys a small question: “ya e’7wan, what do you think about shawerma’s culture?” I got some owsome replies [...]

Now back to the part were I’m totaly shocked men banat el balad, they support the idea of Queer theory, imagine, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer It’s not like I’m against they idea of braking bounderies between the 2 sexs, it just really confuses me, in Islam we execute gays and lesbos, cultrly they are totaly rejected! further more [...]

During our last camp in dead sea that is last thursday, my best friend T told me this wise line: "folan can be your next best friend for the fact that your current best friend which is me was a total stranger to you when you first met!"
I know 7aki falsafeh o bee3 jarayed, bs [...]

You know when people say that sometimes if though you are very good in something, still bad things will happen. Yesterday’s Momentom session went bad.. It was not one of my cool funny enjoyable sessions. maybe its the topic, maybe it is the audience, or maybe its just Lebanon! Let’s discard the Lebanon thing for [...]

I swear I’m not laying! wala…
I have 2 presentations to deliver, one about Windows Vista Sidebar Gadgets and the other one about Integration between Windows Work Flow Foundation, Office 2007 Server, and Excel 2007 Server!! Don’t feel sorry for me at least I like that part, presenting in a forign country, god I miss Jordan, [...]

"wake up laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazy", that’s the first word you ever hear on a typical Friday morning! hehe that’s my aunts voice. In a typical Jordanian family every Friday we all gather in a relative house were we have lunch together, picking on family members, and wasting the whole day long! On the other hand, it’s just [...]

Yesterday’s presentation went great!
Attendees liked WinFX and I bet some went home, downloaded the SDK and spent the whole night playing with it…
One thing I keep noticing in presentations; Introductory slides are always boring! most of them were not that focus and some were trying to keep up but couldn’t! you know the slides were [...]