This Month on Mideast Youth..!

by Mohammad Azraq (Jordan)

Aside from my responsibilities as the editor of the No Honour campaign , the new project by Mideast Youth, I intend to start a series of weekly articles on the lives of young expatriates in the Middle East throughout the remaining of July and until the middle of August, as I meet many of them, not just in Jordan , but across the region, some of them have lived in Cairo, Beirut, Damascus, Morocco, and some of them even grew up in the gulf region , they all have interesting stories and memories to share,from strange encounters to falling in love!

I will support my articles with pictures from their trips, I hope you guys find it interesting to read…

I begin the series with an experience a friend of mine had while living in Jordan Ramsey Tesdell who’s parents are Norweigians but he was born in the United States and for that he’s an American….I guess!

When Ramsey decided to go back to the states after he had spent about a year writing for the Jordan Times, and of course trying to learn Arabic,he and his flatmate- Edward Stallard, an English teacher at a private school in Amman from England- decided to do something unexpectable of any westerner to do in the Amman, they went down to downtown Amman on a Friday morning brought stuff that they needed to get rid of after they’d done packing , they put them on a blanket in the middle of downtown and started selling them to the people there!!, bargaining with the buyers and competing with other street vendors in the area…!!

I leave you with Edward’s own description of the experience as he shared it on 7iber.com enjoy!