I love the girl at the beginning who runs away when the fennec fox comes at her. So cute!
This reminds me of an experience not too long ago with a little snow weasel in the woods. Good times.
Category Archives: arabian
I Finally Taste Camel Chocolate
An awesome friend brought me a bar of al-Nassma camel chocolate from the UAE. It’s been two years or so since I first heard about camel chocolate and I’ve been dying to try it. Camel milk is supposedly superior to cow milk in all kinds of ways, plus, camels!
The bar is a 70% chocolate bar, which is way “darker” than I ordinarily like (Hershey’s Special Dark is 45%), but this bar is so creamy I would have guessed it was a milk chocolate bar. Very tasty and feels great going down.
Here are a couple reviews I found, with more detail: at Candy Blog
and Chocolate Ratings.
And here’s the official site: http://www.al-nasma.com/
UPDATE: I finally had the sense to read the wrapper. The ingredients are as follows: cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa butter, whole camel milk powder (2%), honey, bourbon vanilla. Cocoa: 70% minimum. May contain traces of nuts and soy lecithin.
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When Can Saudi Women Drive Already?
Saudi Arabia promised in January of 2008 that women would be allowed to drive within the year. Story from 2008 here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1576182/Saudi-Arabia-to-lift-ban-on-women-drivers.html (I’m sorry that WordPress has altered my ability to make hyperlinks work).
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Super Mario Theme Played on the Oud
A couple of oud players in thobes play the Super Mario video game theme song on ouds. Sounds good to me.
UPDATE: Whoops, only one of them is playing the oud. The other is playing a guitar.
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The Museum of Science and Technology in Islam
The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia has an awesome museum, the Museum of Science and Technology in Islam (MOSTI). Here’s their home page.
Take a look at the exhibit on the Elephant Water Clock. Way cool.
An old illustration of said elephant water clock:
There are very many other cool things there. Nice website, too.
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More New Designs, Products
In English, "Don't ask about what doesn't concern you, or you may hear what doesn't please you."
This blog isn’t actually about selling stuff, but I’ve been designing stuff lately, so what the heck. Here it is.
Find it at my Zazzle store: http://www.zazzle.com/snarlahusayn
A Couple More Shirt Designs
On sale at my Zazzle shop now, which can be found by clicking the hyperlink in the first half of this sentence or else entering http://www.zazzle.com/snarlahusayn into your search window.
This one here is a quotation from Alf Layla wa Layla aka 1,001 Nights aka Tales of the Arabian Nights. I think it’s a generally useful sentiment: “Don’t ask about what doesn’t concern you, or you might hear what doesn’t please you.” Of course on the t-shirt it’s in Arabic, with English smaller underneath.
Another t-shirt, of which I don’t have a picture, reads in Arabic, “Death before dishonor.” This particular phrase came from a sample of pre-Islamic literature and stuck with me. In Arabic it rhymes. Once again, there’s the Arabic and then the English underneath in smaller letters.
In Arab Sport Today
Yesterday the Gulf Cup soccer/football tournament opened in Aden, Yemen. The UAE and Iraq tied 0-0 in the first bout.
Meanwhile, in China, Sheikha Latifa Al Maktoum of the UAE won a silver medal in individual showjumping. For people who like to bark about how badly women are treated in the Arab world, I’ll add that she was competing against men. Wearing tight pants, to boot.
Riding Kalaska De Semily, the 1998-born stallion, she jumped two clear rounds with no penalty points. She challenged the Saudi Arabian riders Prince Khalid Abdul Aziz Al Eid and Ramzi Hamad Al Duhaimi in the jump-offs to decide the final medallists.
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Quote Found on Blog
Found this on Bowman in Arabia, a blog by a young American calculus teacher in Jordan:
Whether it’s fair or not, we will be judged by people like this. What’s that? It’s not right that a religious zealot with weird facial hair, twisting an otherwise peaceful religion to make hateful, condemning comments, via a face-to-camera video proclamation, backed by a small extremist band of followers, should come to represent millions and millions of people – the vast majority of whom completely disagree with him?
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