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	<title>360east | design, media, technology</title>
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	<description>Ahmad Humeid on branding, design, architecture, media and technology, from a confused Arabia</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 21:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Shooting Amman&#8217;s crazy sky</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=966</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 19:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Filmmaking</category>
	<category>Analogue life</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Moving car + Nokia N95 + Dirty windscreen + Amazing Sky + Amman&#8217;s streets = THIS.

	I share these picture of a breathtaking drive home this evening, as the came from my camera phone. Un-cropped, unedited.

	

















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		<title>Color on a wall: Amman&#8217;s biggest painting..</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=965</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 21:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Design</category>
	<category>Architecture</category>
	<category>Analogue life</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Have you seen this?

	I&#8217;m calling it Amman&#8217;s biggest painting (prove me wrong if you know a bigger one). The wall of the Radisson SAS hotel has been undergoing a transformation for the past few weeks.

	The work is by owl-obsessed artist Rima Malallah, who also happens to run the Love on a Bike shop near Rainbow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Egypt become the first official Arab iPhone country?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 22:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Digital life</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Vodafone is bringing the iPhone to Egypt. I just read this in Apple Insider:

	AppleInsider &#124; Vodafone inks deal with Apple to sell iPhone in ten countries:
Vodafone, the world&#8217;s largest mobile phone company in dollar sales, announced Tuesday that it has reached an agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone in ten of its markets beginning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amman: The Incomplete City and the missing trees of City Mall!</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=963</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Design</category>
	<category>Architecture</category>
	<category>Analogue life</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	
Wherever you look in Amman you see half done stuff. Everything is incomplete.

	City Mall is an investment of tens of millions of Dinars. Some pretty amazing shops inside. It is a successful, popular place. The photo above is from the pavement around the mall. I am sorry, but this makes me sick.

	Where the heck is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is that some real Graffiti on a Ammani wall?</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=962</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Design</category>
	<category>Architecture</category>
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[click to enlarge]

	This caught my eye! Graffiti on a wall near the exit from Wadi Saqra Street to the 3rd Circle.

	Amman&#8217;s graffiti has, so far, consisted of text only statements. Usual examples include:

	Expression of love and heartbreak (Min Ghadr il Bashar, 3ishigt issafar)
Political Statements (Al Haqq Awalan)
and the ubiquitous ad for fencing your damn farm! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Rainbow Street and the dangers of the creeping &#8220;village style&#8221;  !</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=961</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Branding</category>
	<category>Design</category>
	<category>Architecture</category>
	<category>Analogue life</category>
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	The new lights of Rainbow Street are on! I just came back from a quick 30 minute visit to the street. I wanted to check out the street&#8217;s new developments and also document a creeping danger that is threatening the street&#8217;s urban identity.

	I will not elaborate on the interventions that were made as part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One cultured Saturday in Amman..</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=960</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analogue life</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	After a quick visit to the dentist at 2:30 on Saturday, I drove to Goethe Institute in Jabal Amman to drop off my son to his German class. There, I met an old friend, whose son is also taking the class. As we chatted in the lobby, a very interesting mix of people (of all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will the Middle East get the 3G iPhone?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Digital life</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	April is almost over and.. still no iPhone for the Middle East. The rumors were wrong. Apple continues to &#8220;ignore&#8221; a potentially lucrative market.

	Recent rumors have indicated that the 3G iPhone, expected in the coming 6 weeks or so, will be sold unlocked in markets like Italy and Belgium. India will soon get the iPhone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extensya launches, with full branding and design solution from SYNTAX</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=958</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Branding</category>
	<category>Design</category>
	<category>SYNTAX</category>
	<category>Jordan's IT "industry"</category>
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Extensya Chairman, Mohamad Saqir announces the start of the company&#8217;s operations earlier this April.

	Extensya, one of the most ambitious contact management outsourcing ventures in the region has recently been launched with a brand and design solution by SYNTAX.

	Extensya will operate a network of contact management centers in Jordan and the region, serving regional and international [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SYNTAX and Spring help Play 99.6 launch brand new website</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=957</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=957#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Design</category>
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	<category>SYNTAX</category>
	<category>Jordan's IT "industry"</category>
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A couple of days ago, the brand new Play 99.6 website went live.

	SYNTAX, continuing its successful collaboration with the station, strategized and designed the site in close cooperation with Play&#8217;s management and team. Full technical implementation was handled by Spring, who developed the site&#8217;s overall content management system.

	With this release of its site, Play 99.6, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Energy Sheikh</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=956</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analogue life</category>
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.. supervising his workers as they install a solar energy water heating system at a villa in Amman.

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		<title>Questler: the facebook for nerds?</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=955</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Digital life</category>
	<category>The web</category>
	<category>Jordan's IT "industry"</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	


	Are you sick of socializing with your superficial friends on Facebook? Are you tired of people obsessing over the pop star gossip? Are you going crazy with all the endless/useless Funwall and Joke of the Day requests you&#8217;re getting.

	:-)

	Well, someone has heard you!

	Questler, a Jordan based web startup is the place for a nerds/geeks/academics/gurus or, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1980&#8217;s revisited: Wonderful Life</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=954</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Filmmaking</category>
	<category>Publishing and media</category>
	<category>Analogue life</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	I was driving home from work around midnight last night. I was checking out Amman&#8217;s various radio stations when I hit upon Ahlen FM who were playing a familiar tune that I haven&#8217;t heard in over 15 years or so. The song was familiar but it was not by the same performer. My radio LCD [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We need a Post-It mural like this in the office</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=953</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Design</category>
	<category>SYNTAX</category>
	<category>Analogue life</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	
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		<title>Aerogel: the lightest, most expensive material in the world</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=952</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Design</category>
	<category>Analogue life</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	

	This is just amazing. I believe that in the next 10 years some totally crazy material will be developed that will change the world. Love it!
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		<title>SYNTAX looking for super talented managerial staff</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=951</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 09:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>SYNTAX</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	With recent major branding and web project wins in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and the ongoing growth of our its business, SYNTAX is seeking to strengthen its managerial capabilities. We&#8217;re currently seeking to employ an Operations Officer (with a focus on financials) and  Project Coordinators, to help SYNTAX improve its overall management as well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have you seen the Bulgarian Mariah Carey?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Publishing and media</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	

	That&#8217;s what quiet weekend evening can be filled with&#8230;

	LOL!
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		<title>Virgle: Virgin and Google plan human settlement on Mars</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=949</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Branding</category>
	<category>Analogue life</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	

	Imagine what Richard Branson and the Google guys could do if they join forces!
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		<title>What does a Viking and Arab have in common?</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=948</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analogue life</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Money. That&#8217;s what.


	

	Read this fascinating BBC story on a recent find of Arab coins, buried in Sweden since Viking times!
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		<title>Can Queen Rania&#8217;s YouTube clip make a difference?</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=947</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>The web</category>
	<category>Publishing and media</category>
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	&#8220;In a world where it so easy to connect to one another, we still remain very much disconnected&#8221;

	I just checked out Queen Rania&#8217;s message on YouTube. The clip has received over 81,000 views already (UPDATE 3 April 2008. The clip has now almost 500,000 views and over 1000 comments). Give this a few more days [...]]]></description>
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