It’s hard to believe I’ve almost finished my nine-month tenure as an instructor in Jordan and have been been overseas now for eleven months altogether. Everyone I know has been asking me what I’m going to do next, and to be honest, I still am not entirely sure. It’s ironic – at this time last […]

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Ironically, I don’t think about the occupations of Iraq or Palestine as much as I used to back in America, even though I’m closer to it than ever before. Every day, my work influences the lives of dozens of different refugees from Palestine and Iraq. We do business, they learn from me and I from […]

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In which Zach visits the abode of his Jordanian/Palestinian friend Khalil for the first time, enjoys a dinner of fish, chicken, and argeilleh, and meets Khalil’s large, exuberant, and question-filled family.

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In which Zach has a chance to escort three friends (2 foreigner, one native) down to the Wadi Rum desert for an overnight trip of camping, “sandboarding” and hiking.

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In which Zach discusses what the new iPhone/iPod software update means for the Arab World: most obviously, Arabic language support.

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Summer has definitely hit Amman with a vengeance. When I arrived in late August, I was freshly hardened from our mind-meltingly hot and humid Wisconsin weather, and Jordan seemed like a dry, stiff vacation in comparison. It also helped that within a month and a half things had simmered down to a perfectly comfortable 19-21 […]

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