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New post at Jaraads.com The fading of the ugly Arab image in American TV...
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Dear Readers, I am moving my site Jaraad.wordpress.com to Jaraads.com. Please subscribe to my new website at Jaraads.wordpress.com to continue receiving updates of new posts. Thanks for reading, Malik Tubaishat...
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Abu Mohammad’s Dukkan...
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Part I - Why Russia was never the enemy but the USA is?
Part II - From Russia with Love
Part III - Moscow and Um Khalid’s dream...
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Picture America: What Americans do before heading to work...
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Part I – Why Russia was never the enemy but the USA is? Part II – From Russia with Love Part III – Moscow and Um Khalid’s dream Part IV – Comrade Nadia Many ...
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Part I – Why Russia was never the enemy but the USA is? Part II – From Russia with Love Part III – Moscow and Um Khalid’s dream Like any parents, Abu Khalid and ...
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Years ago, I was visiting a young woman in the hospital who was only twenty- three years old and had two small children at home. As I held her hand ...
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Years ago, I was visiting a young woman in the hospital who was only twenty- three years old and had two small children at home. As I held her hand ...
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The clock represents our commitments, appointments, schedules, goals, activities–what we do with, and how we manage our time. The compass represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction–what we feel ...
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The clock represents our commitments, appointments, schedules, goals, activities–what we do with, and how we manage our time. The compass represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction–what we feel ...
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I want to know more about this man. This video is so funny I have watched it again and again and again. Filed under: YouTube...
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Part I - Why Russia was never the enemy but the USA is? Part II - From Russia with Love During the 50s, most or maybe all Arab countries became independent. Arab governments ...
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Some young Arab men discovered that they did not have to believe in God to go or see heaven. They found it on earth without any effort from their side. ...
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Every day…
He sneaks in violating her safety.
She shivers but stays quiet.
He holds her arms tightly.
She trembles out of fear.
He ...
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I am not sure when, maybe one or two years ago, that I started drifting away from my plan. When I came to the U.S. to do my PhD my ...
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Yesterday at 11 pm, I received an email from one of my employers. She is an American professor. Hi Malik I hope that your friends and family in Jordan are ...
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The status of Arabs these days observing from a far the Syrian children been annihilated by the Syrian regime (by using Chemical weapons) under the support of the Russian government ...
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It seems Al Jazeera America is not the same as Al Jazeera English [source]. Fox news has its agenda and loyal audience. MSNBC has its agenda and loyal audience. I ...
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The trend of “name calling” in the Arab countries became very dangerous. And with every Muslim Scholar having his own YouTube channel and a show on TV it became a ...
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Posted: May 25th, 2013, 10:38am UTC by Jaraad
Changing the mindset of people about something they already have an opinion about is not easy; it takes lots of money and time. Even for some businesses their well studied ...
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Posted: May 16th, 2013, 6:07am UTC by Jaraad
Yesterday, I had a potluck dinner at my boss’ house. Our team is about 10 people. Since we work on campus we do a small party to celebrate end of ...
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Posted: May 7th, 2013, 7:39am UTC by Jaraad
When you search for something on Google you notice some suggestions. Google builds these suggestions from previous people’s search. Popularity is a factor in what Google shows. Depending on where you ...
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Posted: May 2nd, 2013, 2:14am UTC by Jaraad
I found this list worth sharing and a good reference to be read very often. 1. Ask the most creative people at work for their ideas. 2. Brainstorm with a ...
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Posted: April 26th, 2013, 11:16am UTC by Jaraad
In America, the president of the country is a government employee. Citizens can freely criticize him. Neither the government nor citizens who support the president can harm anyone who speaks ...
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Posted: April 25th, 2013, 10:27pm UTC by Jaraad
An Arab friend of mine delivers one of the local daily newspapers. Here is a conversation that took a place one day around 5:30 pm after he was done with ...
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Posted: April 18th, 2013, 9:56pm UTC by Jaraad
I love this. Enjoy! Filed under: Business Tagged: art desserts, Business, Coffee, Food, restaurants, video...
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Posted: April 18th, 2013, 10:30am UTC by Jaraad
I overheard the following conversation at our workplace: Woman 1: I think I need a cleaning lady in the house. Woman 2: If I have extra money I will definitely ...
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Posted: April 16th, 2013, 8:55am UTC by Jaraad
Last week, our Computer Science Department hosted a guest speaker. The speaker is a Chief Cyber Security at one of the biggest laboratories in the nation. His presentation was very interesting and useful. He ...
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Posted: April 16th, 2013, 9:27am UTC by Jaraad
الأسبوع الماضي قرأت رواية “قبل السفر” للمدونة الأردنية علا عليوات. عندما سمعت عن الرواية لأول مرة لم أعر الأمر إنتباها لأني لست من محبي قراءة الروايات. ولكن مؤخراً حصلت على ايباد ووجدت ...
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Posted: April 2nd, 2013, 1:07pm UTC by Jaraad
A rest area is a public facility, located next to a highway, expressway, or freeway at which drivers and passengers can rest, eat, or use relatively a clean public toilet. ...
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Posted: March 25th, 2013, 6:06am UTC by Jaraad
Last week, I watched a very disturbing documentary but was a mind opening about what is going on within “the most powerful institution in the world”. ”The Invisible War,” nominated for Best Documentary ...
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Posted: March 9th, 2013, 12:34pm UTC by Jaraad
Here is some mind blowing info about rape. The estimated rapes in UK last year were 78,000 45% of rapists are current partners Only 8% of rapists are strangers Only 7% of ...
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Posted: March 4th, 2013, 6:30am UTC by Jaraad
Reblogged from Totally JOrganic: To answer your first question, YES, it was amazing. Extra amazing because we are probably the first people in the history of ever to go to ...
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Posted: March 4th, 2013, 12:10pm UTC by Jaraad
Some pictures of the recent snow storm in Columbia, MO. Filed under: Columbia Tagged: columbia missouri, snow...
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In America, they say “she/he got balls” when referring to a person as being bold or brave. In some Arab countries they refer to these same balls as eggs. Although, it used ...
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In the Arab world, the most feared people or organization is the secret intelligence, called El-Mukhabarat*. Unlike in the U.S. El-Mukhabarat doesn’t come to the wanted person, instead they call ...
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Ten years later I did not recognize my hometown, Irbid, it felt like a different city. The population tripled if not more. There are apartment complexes everywhere although Jordanians used to ...
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Last Sunday, was the NFL Super Bowl XLVII (47th). The Super Bowl in the US is like the World Cup for the rest of the world. 100-million viewers watched the ...
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“We see that very early in childhood — around age 4 — gender roles in occupations appear to be formed,” said Christianne Corbett, co-author of the 2010 report “Why So ...
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One of my lab mates is going back to his country in Africa to get married. Me and him are the only non Americans in the group. Our all male ...
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On December 2012, I went to Gadara (known in Jordan as Umm Qais). Luckily, the weather was so nice and sunny. Click on any of the pictures below to see ...
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I arrived Queen Alia airport in Amman at 2 am. The check-in line was moving extremely slow until I arrived at the counter and found that the computer system is ...
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Filed under: Nature Tagged: American Airlines, Clouds, Sky...
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Some countries like India and Mexico started the service of “women-only” buses to solve the problem of sexual harassment from male passengers. I think this is a good idea especially in ...
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Jaraad blog became my sanctuary. It is my not so private journal. When I am sad I write and when I am happy I also write. It became my companion ...
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My home town, Irbid, is called the “Bride of the North.” Last Friday, I went with my family to the countryside. Although, it was December but the weather was warm ...
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Victoria’s Secret Jordanian style. Filed under: Jordan...
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Filed under: Jordan...
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Because Irbid is not an industrial or a rich city many of its residents seek a better life in the oil rich Gulf countries like Kuwait and Saudi ِArabia. I ...
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My hometown is called Irbid, located in the northwestern part of the kingdom. “The archaeological research and excavations have shown that human has settled there about 200,000 years ago. Irbid ...
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Last Monday December 10th, 2012 I left Columbia, Missouri. I arrived Jordan on Wednesday, December 12th, 2012. It was a very long trip, it took more than 24 hours. 1. ...
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A mosque and a church beside each other is a very common scene in Jordan. Filed under: Jordan Tagged: Church, Jordan, Mosque...
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The beautiful Al Jazeera’s female anchor broadcasted some disturbing footage of the war on civilians in Syria. With her husky voice she announced the number of injured civilians and people killed ...
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Someone sent me a long list of questions about Arab culture. It is difficult to answer all of them in one post. So, I will try to answer a few ...
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When I was in my early and mid-twenties I used to tell my friends in Malaysia that I want to do my PhD in UK. I also used to mention, ...
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Yes, we can! So, today the Expats Blog announced the winners of five countries including USA. Thanks to the lovely readers of Jaraad the blog received the Honorable Mention Award 2012. ...
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Since I came to the United States, in January 2002, I have never been home. It has been 10 years since then. One week from today I will be travelling ...
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Americans start decorating for Christmas very early. Some people start preparing for Christams on November. The houses in the pictures below are Fraternity and Sorority houses on our campus. Filed under: ...
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Reblogged from Totally JOrganic: Anyone who’s been watching the news knows that it’s been a rocky few weeks in the Middle East. We’ve been laying low and enjoying life on ...
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Do you remember the beautiful golden color tree most of you liked in a previous post? It was so beautiful, wasn’t it? Here it is again. But scroll down and ...
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Today, while I was at Starbucks a Saudi student came by and we had a quick chat about what each is doing over the Christams holiday. After he left the ...
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It was only recently during a discussion with my colleagues and our adviser, during the presidential election, I learned that President Lincoln was a Republican. And last week after watching ...
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Last Tuesday, November 2012, I went to a rally held outside the Boone County Courthouse-Columbia, MO- to show support for the Palestinians in Gaza. Due to school break (Thanksgiving break is one ...
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The awesome blogger Chiara emailed me suggesting that my blog would be a good addition to http://www.expatsblog.com/blogs/usa. I wasn’t aware of this site before but thanks to Chiara my blog is listed now. ...
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Some would argue that the reason behind Europe’s “Dark Ages” is the ruling of the Church. Scientists were jailed and books were burned. Saying that the earth is not the center of ...
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Filed under: Picture America Tagged: Autumn, Fall...
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Here are some interesting pictures of the election day in America, 2012. All pictures are from bigpicture. Some people went very early in the morning to cast their vote. Others ...
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Culturally, there is a plethora of differences between Americans and Arabs. Many of these are just normal differences between any two cultures like the culture of celebrating the Halloween. Few ...
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Back in August 2012, the only mosque in Joplin, MO was burned to the ground. It was the second attempt within a month. After that incident, the Muslim community here ...
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Jimmy Kimmel asked his viewers to video tape their children while telling them they ate their candy. As you would expect the children’s response is so funny. I think it ...
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Recently, Muslims around the world have been noticing the double standard of the Western media when it comes to describing a person committing an act of terror. Basically, when a ...
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A woman on campus spreading the word about Jesus. This is something common here on my campus. A Christian man sometimes hand students pocket size bibles for free. Some other ...
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In my previous post I talked about Trust and Customer Service in USA. After I published the post I came across a study, while learning about Model Thinking, that is very ...
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Unlike America, trades in the Middle East do not involve fine prints chosen carefully by a group of lawyers. In the Middles East, a transaction between a merchant and a ...
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I have never imagined that my love for history is going to be one of my strengths. I once wrote in my journal how we all are blueprints planned by ...
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Egyptians used encryption as a way to communicate messages in obscure form. Julies Caesar wrote his strategic letters in cipher, that is, by so changing the order of the letters ...
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This semester, I started a new job on campus as a Web Developer for our university’s career center. I like the environment of my new job so much. We have ...
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I like movies that are based on true stories. Yesterday, I watched one called Argo which is another good movie by director Ben Affleck. I very much enjoyed his directing ...
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I hate the first sentence in my blog. It takes me more time to I think then write then erase. I write then erase The most important sentence in any ...
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So far, I haven’t been in any hotel or motel room in the U.S. that doesn’t have a copy of the Bible placed near the bed. Gideons International is an evangelical Christian organization dedicated to distributing ...
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Physically, we live in the present but our brain, many times, wanders in the past and maybe even some more times wanders in the future. Unfortunately, the more our brain ...
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Filed under: Columbia, Life in the US, Outdoor, Picture America Tagged: Bike, Bike Share, Campus, columbia, mizzou, University...
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Unlike universities in the Middle East and Malaysia, U.S. colleges and universities are not guarded by walls, gates or security. In Jordan for example, only students, staffs and faculties are ...
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If it is not for random numbers, video games and simulators would not exist. Writing code and algorithms to generate random numbers plays a major role in Computer Science. In ...
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Very practical and useful but maybe not the best way to beautify a tree. Filed under: Downtown, Environment, Picture America, USA Tagged: Downtown, Tree grates, USA...
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Elections for the office of Missouri House of Representatives will be held in Missouri on November 6, 201 [source]. Filed under: Picture America, Politics, USA...
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The fact of the matter is that we should always judge individuals and not generalize or stereotype. The truth also is that a culture identifies itself from others by its distinctive ...
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This post is only about the culture of classroom in Jordan and USA. The following story happened back in the days when I was an undergraduate in Jordan: While our ...
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Since in USA (I am not sure if this includes all states) it is not illegal to carry a concealed weapon, most banks and all government buildings in the US ...
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Filed under: Cities, Columbia, Downtown, Picture America, USA...
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This is really a very nice story I read today morning on Facebook. A sweet lesson on patience: A NYC Taxi driver wrote: I arrived at the address and honked the ...
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When I was an undergrad studying Computer Science I learned a lot of new stuffs to qualify me to be a good programmer and a Computer Scientist. Beside my computer ...
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This is a humorous tale from the book Three Minute Tales-Stories from around the world to tell or read when time is short by Margaret Read MacDonald. There was a ...
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At Mizzou we recognize that families are in transition when students journey to college. Orientation to university life is important to help parents and other family members understand and support ...
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I haven’t written any thing for the past three weeks because of some disturbing news from back home. My father had difficulties in breathing, every now and then, that lasted ...
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Reblogged from EXPERIENTIAL COMMUNICATIONS: Saturday, August 25th was the deadliest day of fighting in Syria as over 300 deaths were reported. Yet the news cycle in the United States focused ...
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