And here's an aerial of the George Washington Bridge. Apparently Ammann was very influenced by erector sets, a friend of mine has told me, and it has this kind of erector set look to it. But the other thing that's going on here is that it's a bit over-built because it was designed to be clad with stone to give it that kind of New York-y kind
And they just figure, the governments will mess with us, but we'll always find a work around. It seems like Amman has been developing somewhat as a tech hub, and King Abdullah is somewhat more open.
they're some of the most motivated people I've ever met. I'll be going to Amman .
And they just figure, the governments will mess with us, but we'll always find a work around. The talent that you see in Amman , and the incubators there will blow you away.
And so I said to myself, "I'd really like to go to Iraq and see what's happened." So, I took my guitar and a video camera and 6 fr-, and 6 friends and we flew to Amman , Jordan. We hopped in a 16 passenger plane and we flew to Bagdad and we get over the airport in Bagdad and the pilot says, "In order to avoid a hit from a SAM-7
You want your employees to get feedback, but nobody likes getting performance feedback. So we go halfway around the world to Amman , Jordan.
This is merely by having access and by having some good engineering from the region and/or studying the west, this thing is moving in scale. It sounds similar to what's happening in Amman .
But because the church was present, they were able to learn from a lot of the artists and artisans and craftsmen who were there. This is a very important painting that's part of the Shoman Foundation collection in Amman , and it shows you the surrender of Jerusalem to the British in 1980.
The story is that five billion people are going to walk around-- in Egypt, the mobile providers-- I keep coming back to Egypt, because the stories come from there right now, but this is true in Amman and elsewhere. Every mobile provider that I interviewed for this book told me that within now two years then three years, they'll be 50% or 60% smartphone
This is merely by having access and by having some good engineering from the region and/or studying the west, this thing is moving in scale. Anyway it was at another huge gathering where the former ICT minister of Jordan who actually had done success in business in Amman
think about the world. I expanded that trip and started traveling around Cairo, and Amman , and other places where I'd heard it was real. And I just saw it over, and over, and over again.
Like, the idea that everyone should be equal is just so disgusting, right? But as a Muslim woman that performed uncovered and uncensored all over the Middle East, in Doha, in Beirut, in Jerusalem, Ramallah, Amman , Cairo,
has shifted from before that event and after the event. Matter of fact, I extended my trip, and I went to Cairo, and I went to Amman , and I saw more of it literally by the hundreds if not thousands and realized that there was something very big here and that it was not just something that was remarkable
They either bought or rented buses and drove all over Egypt to effectively evangelize about entrepreneurship, and startup, and tech. So a lot of times, what happens is people go to Dubai, or people go to Amman , or they go to Cairo, and Alexandria is an amazing thing. But no one goes to Tanta, which is actually an amazing engineering town, kind of a little town two or three hours
And they just figure, the governments will mess with us, but we'll always find a work around. It's interesting. Why? Well, I might be a little but I'm on the localization team here, and I studied in Amman in college.