#Yazan also has something

[night-triumphantt]

Kiara + outfits

Uhhhhh, this was v fun yall should try and guess which parts of her outfits are stolen from Yazan XD

[cashweasel]

It was hard to pick,,,,, so, fjskdjsksjs it’s so many (only sort of sorry,,ngl) 😂

5,17 for kiyazan

9,25 for daemon nd karima

8,15 for Gideon and valen loll

29 for all of em 💀

Once again I FORGOT ABOUT A BLORBO ASK but I literally had this in the drafts and everything and today I bring you answers FHRHDJKSSJ

Kiyazan:

5. How do they comfort each other when they are sad?

Yazan is a big actions guy so if something is bothering her he’d want to take care of it and fix it immediately also kiki loves cuddles and cuddles she shall receive fjskakdjdk will literally do anything to make it better,, holding her, talking about it, dancing it out, ordering her favorite takeout (yazan talking about it is a mix him being sincere and dissing the shit out of the person/situation and I kinda love it djdjskdjdk) leaving kiki’s part for you because I wanna know 😌💗

17. Their ways of expressing their love.

We talked about yazan putting up the shelves that kiara got that have been sitting around since forever and that pretty much what it’s about 😂 he just does things for her, or does things so she doesn’t have to. Pre relationship or pre living together yazan would just go around her house and fix anything that needed fixing fjdksidjdk,, also a big part of why he doesn’t mind doing the chores. To put it shortly acts of service and quality time!

Daemon and karima:

9. How open are they with their feelings?

I know why you’re asking this 😂💀 karima is…. Unfortunately still not the best at it at least in a serious vulnerable context and she bottles up a lot BUT she would sit down with him and be like “can I tell you something homie to homie 😔” and even then she tries to to keep it from getting too deep even when it comes to expressing love she’s not one to get Too sentimental but will let him know she cares about him. But this is mostly when they’re still in the beginning of their relationship (honestly it might take her 2+ years of being like that 💀) but I will say the first time she lets herself cry in front of him…………..

25. Share any headcanons about their relationship.

FHDKSJSKDJ ok so you know karima will just KO whenever wherever and her sleep is heavyyyyyy lol and I just think daemon doesn’t let her sleep in her makeup that’s all 😌 she’s knocked tf out snoring and all and he’s just 🥰 wiping her makeup off and doing her skincare for her

Valen and Gideon:

8. What are their most prominent memories of each other?

PLEASE 😭 valen’s is that he used to keep a pet rat as a kid, everybody refused to acknowledge it because it wasn’t actually a pet it was some rat he found lurking in their gardens and deemed it his bestie and would check up on it every day fssksjdjdj and when the rat died gideon was the one that buried and held a funeral for it 😔

Gideon’s most prominent memory has to be valen punching his dad in a room full of people loll bc not only was it incredibly humiliating and an act of love towards his bestie but it was also the first time anyone really stood up to this bully of a man and he just got wrecked by a teenager fjskaksjdj it was great seeing him hunched over w a bleeding nose until he made a comment about the company his son keeps and then it was both boys vs the guards trying to tear them off him fjdksksjskdn

15. Does their view of themselves differ from their partner’s view?

Sort of lol,, gideon struggles so much with his self image and thinks he’s broken and has nothing to offer or that letting ppl get to know him is essentially a burden on him and them so he just doesn’t make friends or meaningful relationships easily and valen over here just Fails to fathom it because to him gideon’s the most solid friend he’s ever had and literally nothing like all those things he says about himself and so he always makes it a point to let him know all the things he appreciates about him

Valen on the other hand thinks he’s the most interesting and amazing person anyone has the pleasure of knowing and that he’s worth it and because he’s set that expectation for himself any criticism from others or negative emotions from himself is shoved aside in favor of the facade and while gideon agrees he’s amazing and lowkey idolizes him lol he’s the only one actually capable of giving him a reality check that he’ll listen to and seeing him as just valen

All:

29. What are your favorite moments that happen between them?

WAAHHHH LMAO ok to be completely fair my fave kiyazan moment is them throwing up into the same toilet together and kiki tolerating the bugs yazan collects despite hating them bc if this isn’t love idk what is 😂

My favorite daemon karima moment is him kicking the ball in her face when they first met DJDKSKDJDJFN and also ceramics class

And my fave valengideon moment is them going into the city and buying some lame lizard which turned out to be a large dragon they tried hiding in a barn where hay and fire don’t mix very well SGDHFKSKDJDJ rip

[oc romance asks]

[nikethestatue]

merhaba, ben sana daha önceden de yazan Türk takipçin. Bu şekilde konuşmak zor farkındayım ama aklıma takılan bir şey için fikrini almak istedim. Azriel'in bonus bölümü ve kolye ile ilgili çok fazla teori üretildi ve çoğunu okudum. Nesta'nın gücünü nesnelere aşılaması gibi Elain kolyeye kahinlik gücünü aşılayabilir mi diye merak ettim. Böylece kolye o anda elinde bulunduran kişiye bazı vizyonlar iletebilir. Bu Azriel'in gördüğü görüntü için iyi bir açıklama olabilir gibi geldi bana. Sen ne düşünüyorsun?

Translation:

hello, I am your Turkish follower who wrote to you before. I know it's hard to talk like this, but I wanted to get your opinion on something that was on my mind. There has been a lot of theory about Azriel's bonus episode and the necklace and I've read most of it. I wondered if Elain could infuse the necklace with prophetic power, just as Nesta infuses her power into objects. Thus, the necklace can convey some visions to the person holding it at that moment. It seemed to me that this might be a good explanation for the image Azriel saw. What do you think?

Hello my Turkish follower!

I've always held the opinion that if the necklace resurfaces again, in future books, that it's definitely Made. 'A thing of lovely, secret beauty' was said about the necklace, though it could be interpreted as being about Elain too. But the word 'secret' tells me that there is something about the necklace that we don't know.

I also think that it's possibly Made twice--by Azriel for Elain, and then in turn, by Elain for Azriel. I think it's imbued with both of their powers. Now, she also gave him the ear plugs. Which in a sense, is a dual gift--the ear plugs and then the returned necklace. Ear plugs are of course very interesting, because could it be possible that Elain Saw something and felt that the plugs would help Azriel in some manner in the future? It's a gift of protection, even if it may look pretty innocent. I also think that even though she was very hurt about his rejection, I don't think that she'd do anything to actually hurt him. So, if the necklace now has a grain of her Power, then I think it would be protective in essence as well.

But, knowing SJM, we might never hear or see anything about it ever again. If it was important, why not include it in the book? instead of Nessian's 57th sex scene.

[bluemojave]

6, 17, 27, 33, 41 for your current fav

OUUUGH my current fave….this is very difficult for me lmao. i originally wanted to pick a Miles ship bc they’re the least developed but Jackie and V have been on my mind a lot lately by way of vicariously receiving validation through it so i think i’ll go with that one instead.

6. Do they have any pet/nicknames for each other?

Frankly, the shortened nickname V came from a pet-name that Jackie has for him- Valentine. V was never a full part of the Valentinos despite living with Jackie for a while and being close with them, so Welles often would call him his “Valentine” or “the Valentino’s Valentine,” w the second one kinda like how frats have sweethearts yk? He also did it because it made Yazan blush and get exasperated as all get-out, which if it isn’t obvious is very out of character for him. He got him to shorten it to V, but every time he hears it he still feels those butterflies and thinks about Jackie. Valentine doesn’t really call Jackie any nicknames though— hell, he only uses them for his weapons and car because Welles got him to. Slow steps lol.

17. Who decides which movies to watch?

In the beginning, V had no fucking clue about a lot of the more popular movies. His parents were very adamant into the idea that anything not made by Arasaka or some educational channel would rot their brains— and made the decision to try and force them off of a screen for entertainment as much as possible. This, obviously, was only possible for them because they had money— since Night City is quite literally covered in fucking screens. It’s kinda like how rich people now send their kids to those fancy, expensive schools with farms and no technology and shit, yk? So Jackie would pick out classics ranging from the 1980s to right before movies shifted to brain dances (BDs are expensive asf— they only watched those when they could pirate them lol) and force V to sit through them.

27. Who is more down to Earth?

Lol, the phrases Valentine and “down-to-earth” have never been uttered together before. I think V is very practical and tries to be realistic, sure, but he also has a huge stick up his ass. Jackie gets along with most people and is super charismatic— he’s the pinnacle of being down-to-earth. They balance each other out in that way.

33. Who was the first to say “I love you”?

I don’t think they had a traditional moment of saying “I love you,” tbh. I’ve mentioned this before, but both of them thought the other only wanted casual sex or whatever, so they didn’t really push for anything further than that— something V deeply lived to regret when Jackie got with Misty (despite her being wonderful) and then later when Welles dies. I could see one of them having said it more “in passing” while they were sleeping together, but I don’t think they would’ve taken it as seriously as like, a more romantic proposal of love.

41. What green flags do they have for one another?

Jackie’s Green Flags: supportive of V’s goals even when he might’ve been more personally against them (like him being w Arasaka); accommodating of V even when he feels out of his element/awkward— basically good at including him; able to admit when he doesn’t know/is wrong; nice when talking about V even when he isn’t there; checks in w V about self-care and emotional stuff

V’s Green Flags: trusting of Jackie/not trying to be controlling of who he sees or what he does/where he goes; rarely, if ever, lies to Jackie about anything; good tipper at restaurants/with valets/etc; not an instigator, so he is always willing to talk things through and not start pointless fights; not classist despite his upbringing

[recentanimenews]

Highlighting the Tower of God Anime’s Top Shelf Voice Cast

  Shortly after the Tower of God anime adaptation was announced as a Crunchyroll Original, the folks behind it came through with the first staff and cast reveals. We already covered the former, so it's time to turn our attention toward the voice talent that will be bringing SIU's WEBTOON series to life. 

  The main characters revealed so far include Bam, Rachel, and Headon, offering up an impressive mix of veterans and those with lighter, but nonetheless impressive, résumés. Let's start off with the character voice actor Taichi Ichikawa describes as "a pure and honest boy."

  Bam - Taichi Ichikawa

    Ichikawa's comments were first shared along with the initial cast announcement. He went on to say Bam is "single-mindedly devoted to Rachel" and grows from his powerless state as the tower throws more tests at him and his friends help him out along the way. 

  Taichi Ichikawa has grown from a supporting cast member to lead voice talent over the past few years. He played Kengo Nakata in a handful of HINAMATSURI episodes in 2018, and voiced Hagel in a few eps of If It's for My Daughter, I'd Even Defeat a Demon Lord in 2019. More prominent roles came into play around the same time, including Kurogo Kurusu in Kabukibu!, Hayato Urabe in MAJOR 2nd, and Seiji Maki in the anime adaptation of Nio Nakatani's yuri manga Bloom into You. 

    Like Ichikawa, we're excited to watch Bam's journey and listen to his own corresponding growth as the series progresses. 

  Rachel - Saori Hayami

    Actress/singer Saori Hayami has an absolutely stacked list of credits to her name, including a ton of major roles in series ranging from Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? (Ryū Lyon) to One-Punch Man (Hellish Blizzard), My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU (Yukino Yukinoshita), Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Shinobu Kochō) and Oreimo (Ayase Aragaki), among many others. Chances are, you've heard Hayami's voice in something, and she's even taken home some tangible accolades for her work. 

  In 2016, Hayami won the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 10th Annual Seiyū Awards along with Shizuka Itou. You'll also find her in plenty of games, voicing a couple iterations of Rider in Fate/Grand Order as well as Leia Rolando in Tales of Xillia, Emma Millstein in The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel series, and more. 

  In her Tower of God comments she said she wants the audience to "pay close attention to Rachel's actions." 

  Headon - Hochu Otsuka

    That brings us to the tried and true veteran of the bunch, Hochu Otsuka, who has been an anime industry staple for decades. If you're into the vintage stuff, maybe you know him as the voice of Yazan Gable in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, or Akira Sendou in Slam Dunk. More recently, you may have heard Otsuka voicing First Lieutenant Tsurumi in Golden Kamuy, Abuto in Gintama, and Sakonji Urokodaki in Demon Slayer.

  Many of you will be most familiar with Hochu Otsuka's role in shaping and training a certain young orange-clad ninja. Otsuka's voice left an indelible impression on countless fans of Naruto and Naruto Shippuden—and even recently in certain episodes of BORUTO: NARUTO NEXT GENERATIONS—as the pervy sage himself, Jiraiya. That fact alone makes us excited about how Otsuka will approach the mysterious Headon. 

    When Otsuka commented on his Tower of God role, he said he loves character types like Headon. He's had a lot of fun playing him so far, and we're looking forward to unraveling this enigmatic character alongside him. 

  Which cast members are you most excited about for Tower of God? Let us know, and be sure to check out our previous post about the anime's staff while we gear up for the show's April 1 premiere.

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Joseph Luster is the Games and Web editor at Otaku USA Magazine. You can read his webcomic, BIG DUMB FIGHTING IDIOTS at subhumanzoids. Follow him on Twitter @Moldilox. 

By: news+feed@crunchyroll.com

[keremulusoy]

“My Own Life Become Interesting To Me From Time To Time”

  Kemal Hasim Karpat, a veteran academician of the Turkish social sciences and historiography world, who was born in 1923 in Babadag town of Dobruca, Romania, died on February 20,2019 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

“I’m Not Rich, I’m Not High-Ranked, But I Got Something: A Mind, An Opinion… And I Do Not Change It With Anything.”*

Karpat was a multi-directional social scientist and intellectual who lived his life in difficulties and had an outstanding academic career in Turkey and the United States during the most difficult period of the Cold War. One of the most brilliant researchers of his generation, Karpat conducted a science with strong connections between the profession of historiography and the social sciences. He has published dozens of volumes in the fields of historical demography, migrations and settlements history, political history of late Ottoman and Republic, the history of urbanization, the history of foreign policy, and the history of the Middle East and Central Asia. He guided young researchers by conducting pioneering studies on the importance of migration and resettlement policies and population development in state formation and nation building. Karpat’s education life was respectively shaped by Haydarpasa High School, bachelor’s degree from Istanbul University Faculty of Law (1948), a master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Washington  in Seattle, and a PhD in Political Science from New York University (1957). Karpat’s doctoral dissertation, a study on the history of Turkish democracy, which was later published and still taught at many universities. He worked throughout his life at the Montana State University (1957-1962), Middle East Technical University (1958-59 and 1969-71), The New York University (1962-71), the University of Wisconsin-Madison as distinguished service professor (1967-2003) and Istanbul City University (after 2011). Karpat also worked as a visiting lecturer at many universities such as Columbia, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Robert College, EHESS, Bilkent, Yıldız Technical during various periods of his academic life. He founded the Turkish Research Center at UW-Madison and the International Journal of Turkish Studies in 1979 and conducted it until his death. In the years between 1970-1988, Karpat directed UW-Madison’s Middle East Studies Program and established and chaired the Association of Central Asian Studies Program in 1985-1995. From 1966 to 1986, he was one of the founders of the Middle East Studies Association of North America and was president for a term. In 1971-74, he became the founding president of the Turkish Studies Association in the USA. Engin Deniz Akarlı, Huricihan F. Islamoglu, Uner A. Turgay, S. Hakan Kırımlı, Robert W. Zens, Ilan Karmi, A. Deniz Balgamis, Akile Zorlu- Durukan, Kaan Durukan, Adeeb Khalid, Keiko Kyotaki, M. Vedat Gurbuz are the first students of him to come to the mind.

Grand National Assembly Of Turkey Honorary Award Karpat was an honorary member of the Turkish Historical Society and the Turkish Academy of Sciences, and a member of several academies, including the Romanian Studies Association, the American Historical Association, the American Political Science Association and the Royal Asiatic Society. In 2009, he received the Grand National Assembly of Turkey Honorary Award and in 2016 he received the Presidential Grand Prize in Culture and Arts. His works were published mainly in English at the beginning and afterwards many of them were translated into Turkish. Apart from Turkish, some of the world languages in which his works have been translated to are Romanian, Hebrew, Persian, Arabic, Chinese and Albanian. He donated his library consisting of approximately 5,500 books and his personal archive (documents, book preparation notes, correspondence, reports, photographs, etc.) for the period from 1950 to his death to Istanbul Sehir University for the use of researchers and students.

Nearly 80 Years Of Academic Life During the period 1950-1970, he wrote many books and articles on Turkish political history, comparative politics, Middle Eastern politics and social change. In 1970-80, he continued his publications in the fields of social change in Turkey and Ottoman and Turkish History. Many work such as The Ottoman State and Its Place in World History or Turkish-Soviet Relations in addition to The Gecekondu: Rural Migration and Urbanization are the works of this period. After 1980, the number of publications on Ottoman history, Central Asian history and Turkish politics history increased. Kemal Karpat published extensive historical synthesis trials and significant edition work with the 1990s after the end of the cold war. His independent and editorial works in the field of  Ottoman, Middle East history and politics and Central Asian history and culture continued. His works on migration and population movements, nationalism movements and their development dynamics and effects in the Ottoman and today, Turkey and near geographies have determined the main trajectory of his works in these years. Urbanization, social change, formation of the middle classes, developments in the dynamics of the historical population, migration and settlement history theses and narrations on the basis of empirical studies have emerged with his historical synthesis studies. Kemal Karpat’s upcoming full 80 years of academic life is a dedicated life to science that developed with the love of knowledge and research, full of struggles for the development of social sciences and historiography disciplines in Turkey. Rest in peace.

Kemal Karpat

People of a lifetime

I have a history

NOTES

“The ‘River That Pierces The Mountain” “People are like rivers flowing towards the sea. They walk, live like a river in a certain line and reach to endless seas at some point. Some people, on the other hand, look for new ways without knowing what lies in their hearts, minds, but by submitting to their power. If do not find, they walk by making their own way. Until they reach the sea. Just like the ‘river that pierces the mountain.’’*

“I Have A History” I am a person who is open to any idea, respects every idea, accepts technology, wants brotherhood among the people defending democracy and defends tolerance. However, on the other hand, I have an origin, I have a history, I have a belief. I would like to keep them too. By preserving the foundations, it is possible to build new buildings on it.”

* It is taken from Emin Tanrıyar’s “River that Pierces the Mountain”: Kemal H. Karpat book and interviews of Karpat gave about his own life.

Yazan: Alim Arlı

*This article was  published in the  July– August issue of Marmara Life. 

Kemal H. Karpat “My Own Life Become Interesting To Me From Time To Time”   Kemal Hasim Karpat, a veteran academician of the Turkish social sciences and historiography world, who was born in 1923 in Babadag town of Dobruca, Romania, died on February 20,2019 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

[wineanddinosaur]

How Do You Say “Hoppy” in Arabic? The Brewer Creating Craft Beer Culture in Jordan

“Why do your beers taste like flowers?”

Most brewers would find this sort of question insulting, or evidence of some sort of flavor imbalance in their brews.

For Yazan Karadsheh, it sounded like a challenge. It demonstrated the vast divide between what he was brewing and the craft beer culture he needed to build in his home country, Jordan.

Karadsheh founded Carakale, the first craft brewery in majority-Muslim Jordan, in 2013. He was 34 years old. Beyond inaugural bragging rights, Karadsheh hoped to kickstart craft beer culture in his native land. To do so, he had to tackle financing and regulatory bureaucracy.

He also found himself creating language for beer in Arabic, searching for willing and able brewers in a country that is 95 percent Muslim, and educating consumer palates exclusively familiar with imported macro lagers.

Now, as Carakale is extending its distribution across the United States, Karadsheh has another lofty goal. He wants to demystify taboos and stereotypes about Middle Eastern people and lifestyles through the power of beer.

The roots of Carakale go back to a Halliburton oil rig in Colorado, where Karadsheh was working in 2006. “It was a lot of ex-military people, plus meth heads who’d spend their paychecks all on drugs,” he tells VinePair while sitting in a nook in Allswell, a bar in Brooklyn, N.Y. Allswell stocks Carakale’s signature blonde ale and its gose, which is spiked with salt from the Dead Sea.

“It was very quick for me to find out that was not my path for life,” Karadsheh says.

After three months, Karadsheh quit the oil rig and found himself in the midst of Colorado’s vibrant craft beer scene. He took a job in a homebrew supply store and watched YouTube tutorials about brewing. After cleaning kegs and doing manual labor in a couple of microbreweries, he began to explore the idea of opening a craft brewery in Jordan.

When he moved back in 2008, however, he discovered a series of barriers.

“The criteria to start a brewery is you have to be Jordanian, be a Christian, be well off, and you have to have an interest in getting into the beer business,” Karadsheh says. “It’s basically looking for unicorns.” Karadsheh is among the country’s Christian minority. His parents helped provide funding, he says.

While grinding through three years of pre-opening paperwork and bureaucracy, Karadsheh tested launch beers in his parents’ backyard on a 2.5-barrel system, and scouted for potential brewery locations in Jordan’s industrial zones.

He convinced one property owner he needed space to build “a science project for a university that was based on a dairy equipment prototype,” he says. He got the go-ahead and set up Carakale in a town near the capital city of Amman. The brewery’s name riffs on the caracal, a wild cat prevalent in Jordan.

In November 2013, Carakale debuted with a blonde ale characterized by a pop of citrus on the nose, followed by creamier notes of honey and vanilla. In a Jordanian market dominated by the likes of Corona and Heineken, Carakale’s signature brew was an anomaly. Locally, the expectation is that “beer has to be yellow, fizzy, and drunk ice cold,” he says.

Dealing with Jordan’s distributors was also challenging. Karadsheh calls his brand “super counterculture.” He recalls being met with questions about his beers like, “Why are they 20 cents more expensive?” and “Why do they taste like flowers?” Karadsheh realized he’d need to create a new beer culture in Jordan to succeed.

Carakale moved distribution in-house, training employees in craft beer advocacy. This involved blazing more trails.

“It’s an educational process,” Karadsheh says, “You need vocabulary in Arabic to describe beer, whether it’s “hoppy” or saying a “craft brewery”… These terminologies did not exist [in Arabic] so we had to create that vocabulary.”

Embracing craft beer’s inherently independent and hands-on spirit worked. Carakale beers are now available in 500 outlets across Jordan, and the blonde ale accounts for 70 percent of the company’s sales. What Karadsheh says he’s most proud of, though, is visiting a nearby bar and overhearing Jordanians talk about different styles of beer, debating pale ales against imperial stouts. (Whether or not they are talking about Carakale is irrelevant.)

Establishing Carakale in Jordan involved overcoming existing beer stereotypes — and bringing the company’s brews to the United States requires its own tenacity. Carakale is currently available in 50 restaurants and bars in New York, D.C., and Arizona, plus at the United Nations Delegates’ Lounge.

In an invite sent out in August 2018 for Carakale’s first official New York City pop-up, held in conjunction with North Brooklyn Farms, he outlines the company’s mission statement: “We want to re-introduce the Middle East through our brand by educating, enlightening and demystifying the taboos that dominate the discourse of the region’s people and culture.”

Randa Eid, a performer in the experimental electro band Luna Fox, serves as Carakale’s director of creative and culture. She grew up Muslim-American in Northern Virginia and joined Carakale after meeting Karadsheh on a trip to the Jordan brewery.

“A lot of people who just watch the news only have one viewpoint of the Middle East — that’s it’s war and tragedy and conflict. Demystifying means opening up,” Eid says.

And so Carakale sponsors events like art shows and dance parties. Its 2018 pop-up with North Brooklyn Farms featured the Egyptian drag queen Ana Masreya and projected footage of dance scenes from Arabic movies set to a mix of Arabic and American pop music.

The aim is to counter what Eid calls “people not knowing there’s that type of freedom of expression in the Middle East,” she says. “People really like art and music and movies — what better way to tell our culture than do it over a beer?”

Countries with a predominantly Muslim population are often assumed to be in opposition to alcohol industries. Karadsheh says this isn’t an accurate portrayal of Jordan’s beer scene. “I think, with humans, if you tell them you can’t do something, they’ll want to do it more,” he says.

Jordan’s population skews heavily millennial, and Karadsheh believes “most of them want change. A lot of them are artists and counterculture-thinking folk who want to preserve some of our culture but change the old ways and move on to something different,” he says.

Embracing its Jordanian identity has been key to Carakale’s success. At one point, the brand’s logo was written on beer labels in English. Karadsheh changed it to Arabic lettering when he realized that piqued drinkers’ interest. And, according to a bartender at Allswell, customers often ask to try Carakale after seeing that it comes from Jordan.

Like all good craft breweries, Carakale is committed to incorporating local ingredients. Karadsheh has yet to successfully find a way to employ camel lactose in the brewing process, he says, but he finds the most popular beers at Carakale’s pop-up events are experimental brews that feature traditional Jordanian cuisine flavor profiles, like an imperial porter infused with cardamom-roasted Bedouin coffee beans, a saison spiked with za’atar, and a red ale brewed with date molasses.

“Some of the dates come from Saudi Arabia,” Karadsheh, ever the countercultural brewer, says with a mischievous glint in his eye. “If they knew we were using it for alcohol their heads would explode!”

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[drewebowden66]

51 Modern Bedrooms With Tips To Help You Design & Accessorize Yours

Wrap your tired eyes around this massive gallery of refreshing modern bedroom ideas and gorgeous bedroom accessories that are sure to wake you up. From ultra sleek minimalist style bedrooms to warm modern rustic decor schemes, from crisp white Scandinavian style to a cacophony of colourful options, there is something here to suit everyone. Discover truly creative headboard feature wall designs that incorporate extruded panels and integrated LED strips that will set your imagination all aglow. Find bags of designer bedroom lamps and pendant lights, slick modern bedside units, drawers and shelves and beautiful closets in which to store your very own daily catwalk collection to dress for success come morning.

Visualizer: Iqosa   Give your modern bedroom design a platform. The low slung platform bed has become a highly desired piece of modern bedroom furniture, and they come in a whole host of designs and finishes. This one is upholstered in an eye-catching red fabric over the base and an attached low level headboard. A copper and grey panelled feature wall complement its russet tones.

Visualizer: Spaces Architects   Colour your way to a restful night’s sleep. A vision of blue greets us in bedroom number two. Blue is a serene and soothing colour, and could help promote relaxation and sleep.

Visualizer: Kamran Samedov   Create a stunning headboard feature wall using light and shade. This design uses extruded panels and LED strip lights to make a truly unique installation that you won’t find round your friend’s pad.

Visualizer: Maxim Shpinkov   Double the style factor with a matching duo of swish designer table lamps.

Visualizer: Dezest   Make a small bedroom feel bigger by installing a floor-to-ceiling frameless mirror. The reflection of the room in the mirror confuses the eye into seeing a larger space.

Visualizer: VisEngine   Warm up a plain white bedroom scheme with modern wall sconces in gleaming copper. A bright accent chair will help the scheme to pop too.

Visualizer: Mateusz Minkina   Unique ceiling fans are a must in warm climates. Consider the beauty of your ceiling fan as an integral part of the decor, as you would with a bedroom pendant light. Statement bedroom wall clocks make a nice alternative to an apologetic looking tiny bedside alternative too.

Visualizer: Tài Nguyễn   Headboard storage niches are a great option if space is limited for bedside tables. This bedroom design has both.

Visualizer: Stanislav Kaminskyi   Consider hanging a pendant light over the bedside unit instead of taking up valuable table space with a lamp. The contemporary chandelier in this scheme is a real show stopper. A bedside floor lamp is another trendy alternative.

Visualizer: Archiplastica   Choose wall mounted bedside shelves rather than floor standing units for a clean and crisp look. These two bedside shelves hold copper desk lamps on top and stow the usual bedside clutter out of sight in a shallow hidden drawer.

Visualizer: Anna Tkacheva   Layer up bedroom lighting options. This design has an illuminated headboard feature wall, bedside table lamps and a ceiling light installation that looks like a sculptural piece of art.

Visualizer: Alexei Golub & Alexey Seldin   Visually anchor your bed in the room by placing a large area rug beneath it. It will also keep your toes cosy till you get your slippers on.

Visualizer: he.D Creative Group   Go asymmetrical with the bedroom pendant lights you hang over bedside units, it will loosen up a static layout.

Visualizer: Marra Group   Reflective closet doors will make your bedroom feel bigger, rather than just closing off the occupied space.

Visualizer: Oporski Architecture   Minimalist bedrooms aren’t just for minimalists. A tidy room promotes a tidy mind, and a tidy mind leads to restful sleep.

Visualizer: Kanstantsin Remez   Try decorating with light instead of colour…

Visualizer: Dmitry Koval & Hank Smith   … Or even with coloured light.

Visualizer: Evgeniy Andrianov   If you can’t settle on a specific colour of light, buy LED strips with colour changing capabilities.

Visualizer: Denis Syrov   Don’t go too mad with a favourite colour. If you’ve fallen in love with a bold bed or bedroom accent chair, then take it easy on the backdrop and go for a neutral shade to pull it all together.

Visualizer: Z.Design architecture   Open up the side of an en suite bathroom. The latest bedroom designs feature open plan bathrooms and shower rooms. The combined rooms certainly make the space feel a lot larger but the exhibitionist nature of the layout perhaps isn’t for shy types.

Visualizer: Dezest   A four poster bed always has, and always will, bring a certain something to a bedroom. Imagine this same room without the top frame on the bed… just doesn’t hit the same mark does it.

Visualizer: Ekaterina Docheva   Forget about hanging your wall art. Propping a large piece of wall art on the floor, or even layering up a few pieces, evokes a cool laid back atmosphere.

Visualizer: Tobi Architects   Refresh your sleep space with the living greenery of indoor plants.

Source: Prom   If you like this geometric headboard wall design, check out these other great bedroom accent wall ideas.

Visualizer: Houssam Eddin Hammoudeh   Wooden accent walls look cosy and warm, as if they are giving the bedroom a hug. This bedroom also has a beautiful wood panelled frame that goes up and over a reading nook by the window.

Visualizer: Sergey Petrov   Make a modern rustic bedroom by combining a wooden feature wall with tree branch art and a twig mirror frame.

Visualizer: Andrey Kazakov   Use a unique floor lamp as a central light in rooms with a lofty ceiling height.

$386BUY IT Mid century modern bedroom furniture brings a relaxed yet ultra stylish vibe.

Visualizer: Ivan Jakovlev   Bring a slice of your favourite place into your sleep space by painting a modern mural or adding decals like this Amsterdam themed room. For more inspiration, take a look at these other city themed bedrooms.

Visualizer: Julia Buza   Pick out some of the planks in a wooden feature wall with white paint or a darker stain.

Visualizer: Mahmoud Omar   Add a modern bedroom bench at the foot of the bed for a polished high-end boudoir.

Designer: Anova Interior Design   Visualizer: Stanislav Ananev & Tanya Vorobyeva   Bring in found objects and patterned headboards to curate a modern bohemian bedroom.

Visualizer: Giang Phan   A Scandinavian bedroom is all about stylish simplicity. This uncomplicated aesthetic works perfectly for a modern kids’ room.

Visualizer: Alaa Hammad   If you need something more uplifting than just a cup of coffee to get you up and at ‘em in the mornings, then how about hanging some motivational art?

Visualizer: Mirror Studio   Consider all of your colour options. A room with lots of natural daylight doesn’t automatically put all the decor possibilities in the light end of the colour spectrum. A dark bedroom decor scheme could help you to feel cosy and cocooned.

Visualizer: Ahmed Itafy   Zone a sleep space with a podium. A bedroom in a small studio apartment, or a large loft space like this one, can be zoned by building a step up from the rest of the open plan layout. The raised floor acts as a podium on which the bed and bedroom furniture can stand.

$770BUY IT A platform bed doesn’t have to be all hard lines and sharp corners. Check out this curvaceous little number.

Visualizer: ArchiCGI   Bring some sheen to the bedsides with oversized metallic globe pendant lights.

Visualizer: Vera Chelishcheva   Install a glass partition wall around an en suite to open up the space but keep bathroom steam inside. Privacy curtains can be drawn around the outside when in use.

Visualizer: Marta Vasevych   Decorate with a shape theme. This bedroom has concentric circles swirling over the headboard, a circular area rug on the floor, and rounded pendant lights over the bedsides.

Fashion a headboard storage wall. The extra storage cubbies compensate for the lack of space on small side tables.

Visualizer: Plasterlina   Make use of every available space. This built-in house bed sits flush with the eaves and has a bespoke bookcase at the opposite side. There are also book shelves and cabinets in the space behind the bed. If this is a bit of you, then you’ll love these other bedrooms for book lovers.

Visualizer: Concept Vision   Select dual tone bedclothes. Even a bed of neutrals can look interesting if you mix and match two different colours, like this mid grey and soft brown ensemble.

Visualizer: Maksym Luriichuk   Have your own boutique clothes store in your bedroom. With clear glass closet doors and some well placed lighting strips along rails and shelves, you can create your very own chic fashion boutique that is poised to serve you every single day. Caution: these types of bedrooms with attached wardrobe on display are best suited to neat freaks and closet organisation extraordinaires.

Visualizer: Duc TayOne   Sleep amongst nature. This bedroom with courtyard design would make every night feel like camping – or glamping.

Visualizer: N-Gon Archviz   Explore unusual rug ideas to bring texture to a plain bedroom scheme – like the pebble rug in this white bedroom.

Source: Ikea   Throw off a samey colour scheme with just one contrasting coloured item. This sky blue bedroom has a single yellow chair to add a bit of sunshine.

Visualizer: NgọcDiamond Home   Soften an industrial style bedroom backdrop with a cushioned headboard and upholstered bed base.

Visualizer: Yazan Samsam   A grey bedroom can be a base for many different colours.

Visualizer: Albert Mizuno   Sink to swim. This sunken floor bed design and sunken bathtub make a swimmingly good combo.

Visualizer: Giorgos Tataridis   Polish up a modern industrial bedroom with sleek furniture and designer lighting.

1. Gold accent planters 2. Gold finish candle holder 3. Nelson thin edge bed 4. Atollo table lamp 5. Gold paper origami pendant 6. Grasshopper style floor lamp 7. IC Light S style pendant 8. Womb style chair 9. Side table with wireless charger

Other helpful articles to accessorize your modern bedroom: 51 Modern Platform Beds To Refresh Your Bedroom 40 Unique Bedroom Pendant Lights To Add Ambience To Your Sleeping Space 50 Small Side Tables That Radiate Modern Charm 50 Unique Table Lamps That Help You Lighten Up Your Interior

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Romance asks you say? Djskaksksjd Give me 1,2 and 15 for kiyazan and 16,20,31 for daemon and karima 😌🫶

Low key this got long but I could probably write more (also a note I would love to hear the partners of the blorbos thoughts more too fjskdjsk)

Oc romance asks!

Kiyazan: 💖💖

1. What drew your character to their LI and vice versa?

Low key it’s cheesy but like, him as an entire person, Yazan is Kiaras best friend, he matches her energy in so many ways, there is no one else she would rather spend time with, I don’t think she could pick one thing, he just has to be his whole self nd she loves him for it. They’ve known each another so long she wouldn’t be able to give you a specific thing, drew her in by being his funny dramatic self lol.

2. What was the first moment that they knew they were in love with their LI? 

Fjskdjsks ok, so I feel like for younger Kiara I don’t know if she’d know it was love per say at first bc there was always love it just,,, shifted a bit, she started being just a bit more aware of how close they were sitting, or found herself wanting to hold hands but she’s nervous about it now where she might not have thought that much of it previously and just like, eventually she realized it was a romantic kind of love too. It definitely clicked though in a very mundane moment where they were hanging out as usual and they’re talking and he does something stupid. Omg actually, it 100% might’ve been when he drew a lil hilighter mark on her when the teacher said to hilight the most important things. Or also a moment of him being excited to show her something like, a new drum piece he’s been working on. Either way absolutely something mundane where it just clicked in her brain in that moment fjskdjsk and she just, never stopped loving him after that so I actually can’t say there’s a realization when they’re older. But there is this sort of resurgence bc I think for a bit it’s just overshadowed by ‘I’m so happy to have you back’. The love is still, *there* though 100% and once it takes the forefront again the fear also settles and becomes ‘oh god I love him but what if I say something and lose him again’ which, fjskdjsks, and that probably just happens as they fall back into being around each other/talking a lot again.

15. Does their view of themselves differ from their partner’s view?

Kiaras self image is so ?? I think her image of herself is someone who cares about others and also as someone who is maybe ‘too much’ I think it’s a fear that sits deep in her bc she just,,, feels very deeply and she’s got a abandonment issues so I feel like, together it makes her fear rejection based off her intensity of emotion. That said this is all deep down I don’t think she has spent a lot of time thinking about herself and I think if you asked her she’d be taken a little bit aback and would have to think on it. Which is definitely different how yazan sees her I think he thinks she’s kind and funny and charming and smart, actually sees her for everything she is which, I don’t think she can say about herself.

Karima and daemon:

16. Jealous at all?

Yk, this is interesting bc, I don’t think daemon is a jealous person at all really. l just don’t think that’s in him, he would step in if he felt like karima wanted him to but he’s not really,,, jealous,, I’m trying to think of situations low key 😂 yk if one of karimas exes wanted to start some beef w him I think he’d be idk if cocky is the right word but it definitely can come off that way, perhaps unbothered is a better word. But still idk if that’s jealousy fjskdjsk.

On the flip side idk how he feels ab her being jealous (if she is) it depends on what she’s like, she’s got no reason to tho I think if someone flirted w him he’d be like :L ty but I’m going to find my gf

20. Did either person change at all, to be with their partner

We talking ab before they met or after bc both of them definitely did a lot of growing before they were ready to be in a relationship though they didn’t necessarily do it *for* the relationship bc,,, they didn’t know eachother yet.

Daemon had to learn how to be comfortable with himself he hopped relationship to relationship when he was in his early 20s with people who weren’t necessarily the best for him. The last break up was definitely a wake up call like, I think early twenties him didn’t know who he was, constantly changed to appease the person he was with, I mean he was still daemon but it was buried. I think after his last break up he got called out by his younger brother and he also just,, felt it like ‘what am I even doing’ and then he spent a long time working on himself and figuring himself out. Also it’s kinda funny bc I think the timeline on this is like,,, he was ~25 so, incredibly humbling to be called out by your 19 year old brother too I think 😂

And you know ab Karima (she is your blorbo) and how she also went through it nd did the dating around but she was also self sabotaging in all those relationships, def dated the wrong ppl and if she was dating someone who was nice she would find issues or reasons it doesn’t work (low key i want more of ur thoughts on this bestie 🙌🏽)

31. Share anything you would like about the couple!

Anything I want 🤔😂 I will share the thoughts that have been bouncing around in my brain for them. Like I’m kinda just thinking about their crafts, I didn’t expect them to be crafty but between the crochet and the pottery/sculpting they kinda are and I think it’s very cute? Like the idea of them crocheting stuff or like working on lil projects together just gets me fr. Also them making stuff for eachothers pets 😂 a sweater for a lizard is actually hilarious and daemon would 1000% make one.

Also daemon dropping lunch off for her while she’s at work can be something so personal, helps her grade assignments or something while he’s at it. Low key these two would be great parents but they just ended up being around kids in other ways 😂 being aunt/uncle or just teaching them fjskdjsk 100/10 anyway I’ll get off my soapbox.

I’ll just add that if u want to pls tell me the other blorbos perspectives im so curious fjskdjsk

[garagedoorshampshire]

51 Modern Bedrooms With Tips To Help You Design & Accessorize Yours

Wrap your tired eyes around this massive gallery of refreshing modern bedroom ideas and gorgeous bedroom accessories that are sure to wake you up. From ultra sleek minimalist style bedrooms to warm modern rustic decor schemes, from crisp white Scandinavian style to a cacophony of colourful options, there is something here to suit everyone. Discover truly creative headboard feature wall designs that incorporate extruded panels and integrated LED strips that will set your imagination all aglow. Find bags of designer bedroom lamps and pendant lights, slick modern bedside units, drawers and shelves and beautiful closets in which to store your very own daily catwalk collection to dress for success come morning.

Visualizer: Iqosa   Give your modern bedroom design a platform. The low slung platform bed has become a highly desired piece of modern bedroom furniture, and they come in a whole host of designs and finishes. This one is upholstered in an eye-catching red fabric over the base and an attached low level headboard. A copper and grey panelled feature wall complement its russet tones.

Visualizer: Spaces Architects   Colour your way to a restful night’s sleep. A vision of blue greets us in bedroom number two. Blue is a serene and soothing colour, and could help promote relaxation and sleep.

Visualizer: Kamran Samedov   Create a stunning headboard feature wall using light and shade. This design uses extruded panels and LED strip lights to make a truly unique installation that you won’t find round your friend’s pad.

Visualizer: Maxim Shpinkov   Double the style factor with a matching duo of swish designer table lamps.

Visualizer: Dezest   Make a small bedroom feel bigger by installing a floor-to-ceiling frameless mirror. The reflection of the room in the mirror confuses the eye into seeing a larger space.

Visualizer: VisEngine   Warm up a plain white bedroom scheme with modern wall sconces in gleaming copper. A bright accent chair will help the scheme to pop too.

Visualizer: Mateusz Minkina   Unique ceiling fans are a must in warm climates. Consider the beauty of your ceiling fan as an integral part of the decor, as you would with a bedroom pendant light. Statement bedroom wall clocks make a nice alternative to an apologetic looking tiny bedside alternative too.

Visualizer: Tài Nguyễn   Headboard storage niches are a great option if space is limited for bedside tables. This bedroom design has both.

Visualizer: Stanislav Kaminskyi   Consider hanging a pendant light over the bedside unit instead of taking up valuable table space with a lamp. The contemporary chandelier in this scheme is a real show stopper. A bedside floor lamp is another trendy alternative.

Visualizer: Archiplastica   Choose wall mounted bedside shelves rather than floor standing units for a clean and crisp look. These two bedside shelves hold copper desk lamps on top and stow the usual bedside clutter out of sight in a shallow hidden drawer.

Visualizer: Anna Tkacheva   Layer up bedroom lighting options. This design has an illuminated headboard feature wall, bedside table lamps and a ceiling light installation that looks like a sculptural piece of art.

Visualizer: Alexei Golub & Alexey Seldin   Visually anchor your bed in the room by placing a large area rug beneath it. It will also keep your toes cosy till you get your slippers on.

Visualizer: he.D Creative Group   Go asymmetrical with the bedroom pendant lights you hang over bedside units, it will loosen up a static layout.

Visualizer: Marra Group   Reflective closet doors will make your bedroom feel bigger, rather than just closing off the occupied space.

Visualizer: Oporski Architecture   Minimalist bedrooms aren’t just for minimalists. A tidy room promotes a tidy mind, and a tidy mind leads to restful sleep.

Visualizer: Kanstantsin Remez   Try decorating with light instead of colour…

Visualizer: Dmitry Koval & Hank Smith   … Or even with coloured light.

Visualizer: Evgeniy Andrianov   If you can’t settle on a specific colour of light, buy LED strips with colour changing capabilities.

Visualizer: Denis Syrov   Don’t go too mad with a favourite colour. If you’ve fallen in love with a bold bed or bedroom accent chair, then take it easy on the backdrop and go for a neutral shade to pull it all together.

Visualizer: Z.Design architecture   Open up the side of an en suite bathroom. The latest bedroom designs feature open plan bathrooms and shower rooms. The combined rooms certainly make the space feel a lot larger but the exhibitionist nature of the layout perhaps isn’t for shy types.

Visualizer: Dezest   A four poster bed always has, and always will, bring a certain something to a bedroom. Imagine this same room without the top frame on the bed… just doesn’t hit the same mark does it.

Visualizer: Ekaterina Docheva   Forget about hanging your wall art. Propping a large piece of wall art on the floor, or even layering up a few pieces, evokes a cool laid back atmosphere.

Visualizer: Tobi Architects   Refresh your sleep space with the living greenery of indoor plants.

Source: Prom   If you like this geometric headboard wall design, check out these other great bedroom accent wall ideas.

Visualizer: Houssam Eddin Hammoudeh   Wooden accent walls look cosy and warm, as if they are giving the bedroom a hug. This bedroom also has a beautiful wood panelled frame that goes up and over a reading nook by the window.

Visualizer: Sergey Petrov   Make a modern rustic bedroom by combining a wooden feature wall with tree branch art and a twig mirror frame.

Visualizer: Andrey Kazakov   Use a unique floor lamp as a central light in rooms with a lofty ceiling height.

$386BUY IT Mid century modern bedroom furniture brings a relaxed yet ultra stylish vibe.

Visualizer: Ivan Jakovlev   Bring a slice of your favourite place into your sleep space by painting a modern mural or adding decals like this Amsterdam themed room. For more inspiration, take a look at these other city themed bedrooms.

Visualizer: Julia Buza   Pick out some of the planks in a wooden feature wall with white paint or a darker stain.

Visualizer: Mahmoud Omar   Add a modern bedroom bench at the foot of the bed for a polished high-end boudoir.

Designer: Anova Interior Design   Visualizer: Stanislav Ananev & Tanya Vorobyeva   Bring in found objects and patterned headboards to curate a modern bohemian bedroom.

Visualizer: Giang Phan   A Scandinavian bedroom is all about stylish simplicity. This uncomplicated aesthetic works perfectly for a modern kids’ room.

Visualizer: Alaa Hammad   If you need something more uplifting than just a cup of coffee to get you up and at ‘em in the mornings, then how about hanging some motivational art?

Visualizer: Mirror Studio   Consider all of your colour options. A room with lots of natural daylight doesn’t automatically put all the decor possibilities in the light end of the colour spectrum. A dark bedroom decor scheme could help you to feel cosy and cocooned.

Visualizer: Ahmed Itafy   Zone a sleep space with a podium. A bedroom in a small studio apartment, or a large loft space like this one, can be zoned by building a step up from the rest of the open plan layout. The raised floor acts as a podium on which the bed and bedroom furniture can stand.

$770BUY IT A platform bed doesn’t have to be all hard lines and sharp corners. Check out this curvaceous little number.

Visualizer: ArchiCGI   Bring some sheen to the bedsides with oversized metallic globe pendant lights.

Visualizer: Vera Chelishcheva   Install a glass partition wall around an en suite to open up the space but keep bathroom steam inside. Privacy curtains can be drawn around the outside when in use.

Visualizer: Marta Vasevych   Decorate with a shape theme. This bedroom has concentric circles swirling over the headboard, a circular area rug on the floor, and rounded pendant lights over the bedsides.

Fashion a headboard storage wall. The extra storage cubbies compensate for the lack of space on small side tables.

Visualizer: Plasterlina   Make use of every available space. This built-in house bed sits flush with the eaves and has a bespoke bookcase at the opposite side. There are also book shelves and cabinets in the space behind the bed. If this is a bit of you, then you’ll love these other bedrooms for book lovers.

Visualizer: Concept Vision   Select dual tone bedclothes. Even a bed of neutrals can look interesting if you mix and match two different colours, like this mid grey and soft brown ensemble.

Visualizer: Maksym Luriichuk   Have your own boutique clothes store in your bedroom. With clear glass closet doors and some well placed lighting strips along rails and shelves, you can create your very own chic fashion boutique that is poised to serve you every single day. Caution: these types of bedrooms with attached wardrobe on display are best suited to neat freaks and closet organisation extraordinaires.

Visualizer: Duc TayOne   Sleep amongst nature. This bedroom with courtyard design would make every night feel like camping – or glamping.

Visualizer: N-Gon Archviz   Explore unusual rug ideas to bring texture to a plain bedroom scheme – like the pebble rug in this white bedroom.

Source: Ikea   Throw off a samey colour scheme with just one contrasting coloured item. This sky blue bedroom has a single yellow chair to add a bit of sunshine.

Visualizer: NgọcDiamond Home   Soften an industrial style bedroom backdrop with a cushioned headboard and upholstered bed base.

Visualizer: Yazan Samsam   A grey bedroom can be a base for many different colours.

Visualizer: Albert Mizuno   Sink to swim. This sunken floor bed design and sunken bathtub make a swimmingly good combo.

Visualizer: Giorgos Tataridis   Polish up a modern industrial bedroom with sleek furniture and designer lighting.

1. Gold accent planters 2. Gold finish candle holder 3. Nelson thin edge bed 4. Atollo table lamp 5. Gold paper origami pendant 6. Grasshopper style floor lamp 7. IC Light S style pendant 8. Womb style chair 9. Side table with wireless charger

Other helpful articles to accessorize your modern bedroom: 51 Modern Platform Beds To Refresh Your Bedroom 40 Unique Bedroom Pendant Lights To Add Ambience To Your Sleeping Space 50 Small Side Tables That Radiate Modern Charm 50 Unique Table Lamps That Help You Lighten Up Your Interior

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Bedroom Pendant Lights: 40 Unique Lighting Fixtures That Add Ambience To Your Sleeping Space

50 Uniquely Cool Bedside Table Lamps That Add Ambience To Your Sleeping Space

50 Uniquely Modern Wall Sconces That Also Serve As Decorative Pieces

44 Awesome Accent Wall Ideas For Your Bedroom

40 Beautiful Bedroom Chairs That Make It A Joy Getting Out Of Bed - Or Not Want To Go There At All!

Brilliant Bedroom Designs

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Battle of Heroes Hack, Cheats, Tips & Guide

You will be taking charge of a complete team in this adventurous journey waiting for you ahead in the Aeon world. Work on increasing your attributes and having a complete team that is ready to unleash their anger and powers upon their foes.

An internet connection is needed to play the game, it must be stable and solid to dodge any further disconnection in the middle of the combats. There are tons of types of heroes to be used in there, you will find demons and angels in the hero’s pool. So the decision is coming back to you to have the perfect match up.

Battle of Heroes was created and published “8elements Asia Pacific Ltd” company and it is available to be downloaded and played on any Android or IOS platform. There are specific requirements to run the game, and that is a big turn off as we have suffered to get it started to do our review on the game. But when we speak about the graphics part, we have to mention how decent it is when compared with other games. It is not very high neither too low, still a decent gameplay waiting for you ahead.

Outstanding Storyline.

The people of aeon were living in peace and there were no troubles bothering them out at all. But something has happened out of the blue as the evil demon has come and invaded their lands and spread the chaos and destruction in every corner. This could be sad news for the normal civilians, but actually this shall become a good news for you, as this will be your chance to shine and prove your worthy.

As you are aware of the storyline of the game, the time has come to dive deeper into the smallest details inside and give you a quick vision on the gameplay. Reading our Battle of Heroes guide will allow you to become full aware of these principles.

Tap on any part of the screen to start your journey. And now the time has come to choose between several login options inside. We have got the Servers of Battle of Heroes, Facebook and the Gmail as well. If you are not concerned with any of these options above, then head directly to use the guest login feature and it has several benefits and disadvantages, read the below segment to learn more about the game.

Choose Between Four Different Options to Login to The game.

Speaking more about the login features and how will they benefit your gameplay. The cloud saving servers are there to keep all your data progressing files stored in safe place.

This is an option to help you with storing every progress that you have achieved so far away from any possible threat. So you will no longer be worried about the data files facing the destruction fate due to losing the device or any other possibility.

Feel free to download the game on any new device and continue right from the moment you have stopped. And do not forget to check for new updated files to be added to the game, it will check continuously for new updated files. It will help you to improve the gameplay and fixing the common glitches. You as well should be reporting the latest bugs in the game to the development team to fix it as soon as possible.

Now let’s leave everything behind and head directly into the gameplay and how the starting scenes are going to be like in there. getting Battle of Heroes cheats will simply modify your dominating chances significantly.

Movement and Combat Basics.

The opening scene is going about the Storm breaker Yazan character; she will discover something wrong as she will sense some sort of disturbance. She still does not believe that the demons are back into our world, as the last demon was there has been over few centuries. And that is when your introduction to the game controls shall begin.

The movement is very simple, use the virtual analog on the bottom left corner to move the character around. And now the time has come to your first combat. Use the attack button on the opposite side of the analog to defeat the enemies.

There are several types of attacks in the game, the regular ones will deal lower damage but it will be fast enough to be repeated over time. There is no place for the cool down state when it comes to the normal attack.

Of course the special attacks will deal massive damage and have very interesting animations when they are activated. Increase your damage with Battle of Heroes cheats and this service is totally free.

One thing you should never ignore is your health bar located on the top left corner. Make sure that you have your health points at their maximum state possible. Once it reaches the zero number you will be doomed and drop down dead.

Start Your Rescuing Mission Right Away!

You must not stall and eliminate all the threats in the town as fast as possible before they start spreading. Show no mercy towards them, especially the ones whom are stronger their other friends.

Some demons will be called bosses, they will have much higher health points and also the damage is not compared with the regular demons. You must fear them out and equip yourself through Battle of Heroes cheats to become strong enough for the upcoming challenges.

Activate your special skill to deal massive damage to the enemies. All the options we have mentioned earlier are the basics of the game but we are still missing the most vital part which will be applied to you.

Select a hero to save Aeon from three different heroes each one of them will have his own special abilities, but also there are pros and cons in this section as well.

Gale Reaver Yazan: a swordsman wielding the wind to fight his foes. Follow his ancestor, Yazan set out to serve justice. More like into the melee combats and physical ones, but very low when it comes to the magical combats. But with the right gears from Battle of Heroes cheats, we will be making sure it is on the top form.

Overview of The Available Classes.

We will continue following our Battle of Heroes tips of the remaining classes and also do not forget to use the Battle of Heroes hack with whatever character you picking up from the list below.

Night Hunter Vera: a master of shadows who uses crossbow, Vera strikes fear into the heart of those lost to darkness. A very strong sharpshooter with the albite to take down the foes before even seeing her. Get stronger weapon to become lethal via Battle of Heroes hack.

Stormfury Joela: Many were fooled by Joelle’s beauty and merely testing their luck against a true force of nature. In other words, this is the main magician class in the game.

The class types are the attack, defense, magic, support and the universal which is well balanced and easy to use but hard to utilize perfectly. And of course nothing is hard with Battle of Heroes hack service.

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Hyperallergic: A Garden of Possibilities at the Palestinian Museum

The Palestinian Museum with an unfinished work by Yazan Khalili atop the museum (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted)

BIRZEIT, Palestinian Territories — The fact that the Palestinian Museum even exists may surprise some people, not because of the wealth of talent that clearly exists in these lands, but because it suggests a type of normalcy to life in an area that continues to be under occupation. When the project was first announced there were conversations about creating a museum that would reflect the reality of Palestinian life, recognizing that not all Palestinians would be able to even visit it because of Israeli border restrictions against people of Palestinian origin. Then the roughly $30-million transnational museum opened without a major “exhibition,” or at least the type of exhibition we typically envision in art museums. It was a more low-key affair, focusing on objects we often associate with historical displays, but that was also because of the real problems of occupation.

“Until Israel recognize[s] most of the Unesco protocols which protect imported goods in the museum world,” Museum Chairperson Omar Al Qattan told The National, “we can’t really bring anything in except under consular or ambassadorial cover, which means it’s always going to be a problem borrowing or exchanging exhibition objects.”

The colorful map of the gardens at the Palestinian Museum (download a complete garden guide here)

That challenge is important, because a museum today is still often categorized by its landmark treasures, the works that attract crowds. It’s a reality that has inspired artists to think creatively, and one Palestinian artist, Khaled Hourani, highlighted it best in his incredible Picasso in Palestine project back in 2011. That year, Hourani was finally able to bring a Picasso to Palestine. We may take Picasso’s work for granted in Western capitals, but in places under occupation there is real power in the presence of such “masterpiece” objects since shuttling treasures across borders reveals who is actually in control — the fact is that the Palestinian Authority has very limited authority over its own boundaries.

Speaking to Leah Sandals at Canadian Art magazine, Hourani outlined the serious issues he faced when he brought a Picasso painting to Ramallah, the capital of the Palestinian Authority. “How do you bring an artwork into a war zone? Normally this kind of artwork is supposed to go between two states that have clear borders, and it might normally take five months for that, from a museum to a museum,” Hourani explained.  “In our situation, you couldn’t guarantee the safety of the artwork. So that was also an obstacle. It was not possible to insure the work 100%. And it took two years, rather than five months, to get the artwork from Eindhoven to Ramallah.” The institution making the loan, the Van Abbemuseum, had to sign off on many of the strict insurance issues.

A view of the gardens and the surrounding landscape from the museum terrace

But the lack of an “exhibition” when the museum opened became a feature of the mainstream media coverage of the institution. That absence, which can be interpreted many ways, was ridiculed by at least one Israeli news source that used the artless halls to hammer home a right-wing talking point: “As such, there is no distinct ‘Palestinian’ history or culture. And, so, it was absolutely fitting that The Palestinian Museum of Art, History and Culture opened its doors with NO EXHIBITS” (emphasis theirs). But on the Israeli left, or what remains of it, newspapers like Haaretz avoided that kind of extremist rhetoric to applaud the reality of this achievement — even pointing out that when Berlin’s Jewish Museum opened in 1999, it did not have a collection.

Yet this Museum is not hindered by its reality and it has decided to source many of its materials and talent from outside Israel, which is clearly a political and conceptual statement. That means the architects (Heneghan Peng) are Dublin-based, the landscape architect (Lara Zureikat) is Jordanian, the exit signs were from Austria (but the Israeli authorities rejected them for import and the builders had to adapt to the bureaucratic hurdle), and all other elements are sourced from elsewhere. It’s hard not to see the very existence of the Palestinian Museum as part of a conceptual project in exploring what is even possible here.

The building itself is a beautiful and stark structure that echoes the taste for minimal elegance in the art world. There is no groundbreaking architecture though, even if the terraced gardens really differentiate the institution from other art venues of this type. Labeled with names that would make a hipster’s head explode with envy — including “Aromatic Garden,” “Medicinal Garden,” and “Olive Garden” (*cue hipsters giggles*) — the gardens are hard to differentiate when on-site because they visually blend into one another, though a veteran gardener may spot these easily.

The garden is also significant because at the foundation of colonialism is the struggle for land. Property and space, particularly public space, are always political, but here they are so much more so considering what people call “Palestine” is more a conceptual space nowadays, rather than a contiguous geography. It’s also significant that the museum is not a governmental structure, but one run by a private nonprofit, and it is also Palestine’s first energy-efficient green building, with a LEED silver certification — another impressive accomplishment.

The Museum’s new exhibition, Jerusalem Lives, is curated by Reem Fadda (with assistant curators Fawz Kabra and Yara Abbas) and features 48 artists, including 18 commissions. While the galleries inside include works by Mona Hatoum, Khaled Hourani, Khaled Jarrar, and other modern and contemporary artists, the outdoor work is a major attraction in its own right.

Emily Jacir’s “Untitled (servees)” (2008) uses the voices of ride-sharing taxi drivers calling out their intended destinations from Jerusalem. It plays on loudspeakers in the museum’s parking lot, and from a distance it can even sound like a muezzin’s call to prayer. In a place where transportation is a hassle, particularly for those with identity papers that limit mobility, the call is both absurd and nostalgic, reminding many of a time when a trip from Jerusalem was far less difficult and could even be done in roughly 30 minutes (it’s only 25 miles away).

Athar Jaber’s “Stone – Opus 15” (2017) with Yazan Khalili’s “Falling Stone, Flying Stone” (2017) in the background.

The specificity of place is also at the core of Athar Jaber’s “Stone – Opus 15” (2017) work, which is fashioned from locally sourced limestone. The Iraqi-Dutch artist has crafted a piece that echoes the worn stone of Jerusalem’s religious landmarks by carving and sanding the hulking stone. If Western art history is still enamored with Michelangelo’s romantic ideal of freeing the figure from a block of marble, Jaber points to a more local history where stones are acts of devotion, touched by hands eager to get close to the divine. In contrast to conventional museums, where objects are roped off from visitors, Jaber invites visitors to graffiti and leave their marks on the work — they can even sit in it. It’s a different approach to art that predates our modern museology.

These works, like all the others, point to Fadda’s bigger thesis: that Jerusalem is the beginning and end point of globalism. It’s a provocative idea, but one that checks out when you think of the city as a continuous and contentious metropolis, one that has been at the center of pilgrimage, power, and intrigue for centuries — in medieval Christian tradition, Jerusalem is home to the “navel of the world” (aka Omphalos); in Jewish, tradition it is considered the center of the world.

Adrián Villar Rojas’s “The Theater of Disappearance” (2017)

In that context, Adrián Villar Rojas’s “The Theater of Disappearance” (2017) is as much a monument to imagination as it is to anything specific. For the piece, which is part of a larger series, he’s sliced Michelangelo’s “David” at the thighs and placed a small sculpture of kittens playing at the sculpture’s feet. The whole thing is sited atop a modernist form that resembles a Soviet-era sculptural podium, and its placement away from the other art — and close to the garden’s entrance — makes for a perplexing introduction to the show. But that displacement is part of its poignancy; like the land of Palestine itself, this is just a fragment of something our imagination works to fill in.

Khalil Rabah’s “48%, 67%,” which is a part of the artist’s Palestine after Palestine New Sites for the Museum Department (2017) project

Palestine has become so hard to conceptualize, and accordingly some of the most successful projects in Jerusalem Lives are focused on abstractions of the land and how they influence historical narratives. Khalil Rabah’s “48%, 67%,” which is a part of Palestine after Palestine New Sites for the Museum Department (2017), focuses on the infamous years of the Nakba (1948) and the occupation of East Jerusalem and the West Bank (1967) by Israeli forces. The years are rendered as percentages, which highlights the overlapping wars of demographics and land being waged in the country on a daily basis. They resemble Pop art sculptures in the vein of Robert Indiana, which we’re accustomed to, but here the declarations make for more sinister markers.

Bob Gramsma’s “facts on the ground, OI#17241” (2017) with the Palestinian Museum in the background

Bob Gramsma’s “facts on the ground, OI#17241” (2017) is equally focused on an imaginary space. The artist has excavated earth and filled the hole with concrete. The resulting cast of negative space is positioned in the Museum’s “Garden of Resistance,” and without knowing the piece’s backstory, it resembles a work of archeology, revealing layers that were previously hidden. I can’t think of a better metaphor for what the best of contemporary art can do in such a contested landscape.

But the most powerful work in the Gardens is Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s “We know what it is for/we who have used it” (2017), which builds on the artist duo’s research into the use of political narratives. Composed of 3D-printed marble masks and a five-channel sound installation, the work focuses on 13 Neolithic masks that may be the oldest known masks in the world. Removed from the West Bank with mysterious provenance, most are currently held in private collections, though two are in the permanent collection of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, where all 13 were brought together for a 2014 exhibition. According to the artist duo, that exhibition instrumentalized the masks as part of Israel’s Zionist ideology.

Detail of Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s “We know what it is for/we who have used it” (2017)

Considering the history of the Israel Museum, which was designed to mimic the silhouette of a pre-1948 “Arab village,” it’s no surprise that it is a contentious space, displaying artifacts from the region through the lens of a national ideology. All national museums do that, but here, where two narratives are so divergent yet so close together (the two museums are about 18 miles from each other) the contrast is stunning.

The sound component of “We know what it is for/we who have used it” illuminates the objects with stories of the destroyed Palestinian villages in the region. Abbas and Abou-Rahme seem eager to symbolically ‘free’ the masks, but they look more burdened here, like shadows that flicker in and out of focus, objects that seem trapped between the worlds of the living and the dead. In that way, they epitomize the Palestinian Museum’s mission to tell new stories, ones that free history to live, breath, and renew itself through the ritual of storytelling. History in a place like Palestine can sometimes feel insurmountable, but in chimerical works like Abbas and Abou-Rahme’s, it comes alive with possibilities.

Yazan Khalili’s “Falling stone, Flying stone” (2017) is the most visible piece in the show — it sits atop the museum. I had to ask if it was a work at all since it looked so well placed up there, like it was part of the architect’s design for the building. The curator told me the work was incomplete for the opening because the glow-in-the-dark paint that is supposed to cover the surface never cleared Israeli customs. The stone itself references so many parts of Jerusalem’s history: the ancient quarries that continue to thrive today; the stone in the Dome of the Rock where the prophet Muhammad reputedly ascended into heaven; the stone from which a heavenly angel will trumpet out the arrival of Resurrection Day according to Christian lore; and the foundational stone of Judaism for those who believe the patriarch Abraham sacrificed his son Isaac for his monotheism. Khalili’s rock looks like it could topple at any moment, which points to the quixotic nature of national identity, a sense of self that can be burdened or liberated by history, and which feels precarious at all times.

I left the museum thrilled to see this new art institution participating in the formation of a new and continually evolving Palestinian identity, one formed through a connection to the land. It’s ambitious, but I didn’t realize how much of an impact it could have until I left the next day through Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv.

When the Israeli border official questioned me about as to why I was in Ramallah, I was frank. “I was there yesterday to see the Palestinian Museum,” I said. “What kind of art do they show there?” he asked. I replied: “International contemporary artists.” He seemed perplexed. He had never heard of the museum and looked at me blankly until I saw his mind slowly form the thought into something more concrete, and it was obviously something that he had never thought of before.

“Wow, I had no idea” he said. “You should check it out,” I replied, in a manner that was probably too friendly for a border interaction. But he didn’t dismiss the idea like other Israelis I had met on this and a previous trip; the typical reaction to my suggestion is a stern, “I’m not allowed to go there as an Israeli.” That prohibition is only partly true, since no one would check, and many Israelis flaunt the law openly by crossing into lands that on paper appear to be prohibited. But the fact that the border official didn’t fall on that rote answer suggested I had jostled him into imagining something else. I felt the potential of such a museum in that moment.

Jerusalem Lives continues at the Palestinian Museum (Museum Street, off Omar Ibn Al-Khattab Street, Beirzeit, Palestinian Territories) until December 15.

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Running Dramaturgy: Yazan Iwidat @ Edfringe 2017

Dance Double Bill

Demonstration Room, Summerhall, 4 - 27 August 2017 (not 7, 14 or 21) | 13:35 (14:20) 

A double bill of new contemporary dance from Palestine and Egypt focusing on identity, homeland, body politics and societal pressures questioning what it means to be Arab today.

Running Away 

Describe your story to us. What led you to become a contemporary dancer that’s about to perform in the world’s biggest arts festival?

I started doing dabkeh (a traditional Levantine dance) with the First Ramallah Group as a kid. That was my start, really. I then moved onto to contemporary dancing. I was one of the first people to be involved in Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival. I started taking workshops and acclimating myself more and more with contemporary dancing. I worked with a bunch of different international acts around the same time as well.  That led me to start getting into auditions and then moving on to creating and participating in performances. 

I choreographed my first contemporary arts performance in 2015. It was entitled “Empty Head”. I performed it in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last year as well. Now, I’ve created a new performance called “Running Away”, which will get its first bow on European soil in Edinburgh after it was performed across several different locations in the Middle East. 

How has your transition from a classical form of dancing such as dabkeh to contemporary dancing been like?

Well, I was part of a group of dabkeh dancers at the beginning. After a while, we came to a collective decision to try out a new form of dancing. We started with a contemporary dance performance called “At the Checkpoint” in 2009. It was considered the very first contemporary dance project in Palestine at the time. I never really stopped dabkeh, though. I only stopped when I moved out of Palestine three years ago, but I always try to dance it on the side. 

What would you say is the main inspiration behind your performances?

It depends. My different forms of living are really the biggest inspiration. In “Running Away”, for example, I talk about a guy that really has a lot of doubts about whether to move out or stay in Palestine. He considers whether he will fit in elsewhere. 

It obviously comes from the actual situation that I’m living. There are so many questions involved here obviously. All of them are asked in the performance, without providing any answer, because I simply don’t know it at this point. At the end of the performance, I come to the realization that every person has to cut his umbilical cord from his country and try to do something else. 

The political situation of Palestine definitely plays a part in that and allows me to tackle the issue on a personal and political level. I wouldn’t say that my performance is political, but it definitely has a political layer to it. I always try to link my performance to political situations in a subtle way. “Empty Head” was similarly personal, yet a lot of people told me that they felt a political element in it. I guess I always try to let the audience think about the performance and discover what they want to take away from it. 

Do you tailor your act to where you perform it in?

No. That’s one of my main rules. I never change the performance to please people. You got to say what you need to say as an artist. If people like it, they like it; if they don’t, they don’t. I always put really subtle nuances or things that can’t be discussed in the Arab world into my performances. 

For example, “Running Away” is controversial to many because it portrays Palestine as a prison that someone is trying to run away from. Some people liked it, others didn’t. That’s the debate that we’re creating. 

Is the performance a good space for the public discussion of ideas? 

I think so. First of all, when we talk Palestine, we always think that the performance is going to be political and very traditional. That’s something that I challenge. I try to illustrate that Palestinians aren’t always limited in their acts. We’re also capable of being personal in tackling human issues.

Syria is currently suffering from the very same problem. If you imagine a Syrian performance at this very moment, it somehow has to talk about refugees. This is the actual situation that we’re dealing with. If you’re Palestinian, you have to talk about the conflict with Israel. It’s not a stereotype; it’s just the first thing that usually comes to mind. 

But, we’re also capable of talking about love, poverty, or any human emotion, really. I’m part of a group of Arab dancers that’s trying to challenge the status quo and talk about different things. 

I think that putting together a bunch of Arab acts, as is the case with Arab Arts Focus in Edinburgh, will be very interesting for many people to see. We all have common things between us, of course, since we come from the same area on the map, and thus mostly have gone through a lot of the same issues. 

What could festival goers expect from your performance?

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They could expect to watch a dancer getting lost in space during the discovery of a whole different world where a Palestinian isn’t talking about Palestine and is instead portraying his own issues as a person. 

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Blue?

Blue is not the color I associate with, yet I got the blues. I don't know who decided that blue is the color of feeling down, but I'm supposed to take it because it is common knowledge. I don't have any color association with with certain feelings. Every set of hues is a more accurate demonstration of my associations. Neon colors are energizing and cheerful. Basic colors are lazy and cozy. Metallic colors are exciting and ever-surprising. What I feel right now is the desaturated set; like something is not quite right. Desaturated colors are associated with the old, the outdated, and the digital vintage - and to a certain extent, I feel as such.

For the past couple of days, the topic of marriage has opened multiple times. It started with Yazan, and then Mohammad, then Faisal, and once more back to Yazan. Marriage is not something that I had in mind anytime soon. After all, I've always been against the status quo of marriage processes in my society. Most examples I had in my life are of young men asking their mothers to find them a girl to marry, because "it's time to get married". For those who don't understand the culture, it's also "time to have sex without being frowned upon". They do not get married to someone they want to spend their lives with. They want to get married because the idea of marriage to them is limited to starting a family, wanting a son to carry their name, or just to get their 3 seconds of pleasure. As a human being, I want all of the aforementioned. I want children (not particularly a son). I want to start a family. And I really want my regular dose of 3 seconds of pleasure - just in a much more refined manner!

The Western model of marriage is not my cup of tee either. Getting married to someone only because you love them for a set period of time is not practical either. This is why my idea of marriage is the best of both world. I want to get married to someone I love and respect, and will love and respect for the rest of eternity, alas with a diluted version of the intended Eastern practicality. What's the point of having children if you stop getting along with your wife 5 years down the line? What's the point of having sex with a person you don't have any feelings for? What's the point of starting a family if at any point in time, it will not function as a family?

With all that in mind, marriage has never crossed my mind as something happening anytime soon. I'm an almost 24-year old, who's struggling with his sexual identity, and has never in his entire life dated a girl - let alone hold one's hands. While I'm painting an image of a sad and desperate young man, I really am neither. I've been down that road of worry and self-pity in terms of my career, and it only stands in the way of moving forward. This is why I've come to learn a very important lesson; everyone moves at their own pace. Am I every getting married? I really really really really really really want that. I've come along way in my struggles, and without them, I wouldn't the person that I am today! Does this mean I'm getting married in the next 3 years? Most probably not. Firstly, the most important ingredient of marriage is not in the picture. I need to find my potential life partner for me to even consider marriage. Secondly, I literally just started my life as a working adult 7 months ago. There is still no stability in my life whatsoever at the moment. Casting aside the instabilities in the region, personal instability includes working a field that I am not trained to work in, and providing for my family. Sometimes I feel I talk so damn much about these two topics, like I want someone to either hug me and tell me everything is going to be okay, or so that someone can give me a round of applause. I want neither. I just want to be understood and treated accordingly.

Given all that, I find it surprising that I'm bothered by the marriage talk I've been having these days. It's not the idea of marriage itself particularly, but rather the things that come with it; namely the expenses. A wedding is no easy feat. I guess I never had to think of spending such big amounts of money in my life. I've always been surrounded by people born with silverspoons in their mouths. On the other side of the spectrum, I was too young to even consider something that can be as costly as a wedding, a car, or a house. If I want to argue about each individually, I can argue that owning a house so early in life is not that important. I don't have an argument against a car because unfortunately there is no alternative here in Jordan. As for the wedding, that is something that has be agreed upon between the two persons involved - but personally speaking, I'm against the extravagant wedding culture. Everyday, I hear of a new wedding more ridiculous than the one before. It's like everyone is trying to up the other with how much money they can spend on one night - or even lately a full week - of dispensable burden.

Yet, here I am today, looking at what I am actually able to save and how I'm spending. By giving almost half of my salary to my parents, I am able to save up between 50 and 100 JDs monthly - depending how tight my hand is that month. I work well with budgets. I optimize them to get the best out of them. With the amount of money I spend, it include the necessities as well as entertainment (nothing luxurious). However, that is not enough if I want to collect enough money for a big investment. Let's not forget that a person cannot live in the same routine for endless years. Whatever money I collect, I would like to spend on something that improves me as a person. Whether it is getting exposed in travels, or investing in something like lessons (which I plan on after coming back from my trip) so that I become better at something new.

The other thing that has been bothering is my trip to Germany. I really hate to lie. So when someone asks me a question where the answers is related to my trip, I end up telling them about it, and in most cases I even end up telling them that I'm not the one paying for it. Most of them make the assumption that I'm loaded and I'm going just because I can easily afford to. It's nothing like that, and it's just an opportunity that came my way that I certainly cannot say no to. While a number of those people I know well and trust them enough not to be envious, I have had a long relationship with the negative impact of envy and I'm always afraid of it - whether to envy or be envied. I'm always too careful around people when it comes to envy because it's such a horrendous human trait. Do I get jealous at time? Certainly. But envy takes it a step further and people start wishing bad things, which is something I utterly and completely disapprove of.

I just have a really bad feeling about the trip. My heart is not at ease. We'll be doing loads of fun things in Germany! I have a vague idea of everything we'll be doing, which is a mix of new and old for me, as I've lived there for a year. However, I didn't experience everything, and I'm taking the chance to mix and match. But I'm very worried, and I can even say unexcited, about it all at this point in time.

I have no idea what my aunt is expecting. Since I'm the official organizer, I'm extremely scared to have wasted her money on something she won't enjoy. I talked to her already to get an idea of what she'd like to do, but she gave me the ultimate freedom to plan everything. When I started reserving hotels, she wasn't too satisfied with the prices, even though they were relatively cheap compared to what she asked me for initially, and I had to bitch slap her into the reality that if she wants something cheaper, she'd have to lower her expectation slightly. Based on that, I'm worried she won't enjoy the trip, which will keep me worried the entire trip because it's not my money that I'm spending. It's hers.

The second thing that is worrying me, which to be completely frank I have never thought it would ever bother me in my entire life, is the fact that she's wearing a full jilbab - not just a hijab. Germany is a very tolerant country. It's miles ahead the US in that domain. But the stories that I've been hearing on the news for the past year about muslims getting beaten, shot, and killed simply because of islamophobia are messing with my head. I'm very worried that something will happen to her over there, or maybe even to the both of us - all because she chooses to wear a jilbab. Maybe I'm overthinking things, but I can't get it out of my head. We're going there to have fun, not to have a funeral.

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Dubai, UAE: The message of a teenager who launched an anti-bullying campaign after he was the victim of abuse has gone worldwide thanks to social media. Yazan Zamel created Bullying Is Not Okay four years ago as a way to help and support other children. "I decided to start this because I was a victim of bullying during elementary school," said the 16-year-old Jordanian, who is a student at Abu Dhabi International School. "I didn’t want any student to go through what I faced. In addition, I want to develop students’ abilities and boost their confidence." His unpleasant experiences became the spark that motivated him to create the campaign which targets physical and cyber bullying. It was launched in 2013 when Yazan was in 8th grade. He praised the support provided by his friends and teachers. There are three key elements. At the school level, Yazan raised awareness about the types of bullying. He made videos, distributed brochures and conducted plays from 2013 until 2015. He expanded it to inter-school level with projects held at places such as Al Najah Private School and International Community School, with presentations given to grades 1 to 6. The campaign then spread globally on social media. "I’m taking advantage of Instagram and Facebook to raise awareness at the international level," he said. "In fact, I’m assigning ambassadors in different parts of the world. I also assigned them from schools in the UAE." One of the biggest problems in tackling bullying is that many children do not speak up about the abuse they suffer, he said. "The victims simply keep the problem to themselves, allowing the bully to influence and negatively affect other students and the cycle goes on," he said. "In fact, one of the targets of the presentations is to make students speak up. They shouldn’t fear those bullies. Those bullies are actually scared, that’s why they threaten the students." Constant bullying can have significant impact on a child’s self-confidence and self-esteem. The campaign has helped to give confidence to many children, Yazan said. "We have had students who didn’t like to present and get engaged in the class because their classmates used to tease them," he said. Schools did not take bullying seriously but that is changing as online bullying has increased in recent years and now tougher rules are in place in many schools, he said. "In fact, there are serious consequences if someone bullies a student even outside the school such as online sites. Cyber bullying, unfortunately, makes bullying easier as users can be anonymous on certain sites." Schools should focus on raising awareness of the damage a bully can do rather than simply sending them home for a couple of days. Sally Faisal, a biology teacher at Abu Dhabi International School taught Yazan at Grade 8 and has seen the impact his campaign has made. "Even though he was bullied he was strong enough to do something about it and help other children in a similar situation," she said. "I saw how he gave courage to other children to speak about their experiences in front of the school and how touching that was. "Every pupil was listening to what these children were saying and I think many more understand how damaging bullying can be." © The National via Edarabia.com

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Dubai, UAE: The message of a teenager who launched an anti-bullying campaign after he was the victim of abuse has gone worldwide thanks to social media. Yazan Zamel created Bullying Is Not Okay four years ago as a way to help and support other children. "I decided to start this because I was a victim of bullying during elementary school," said the 16-year-old Jordanian, who is a student at Abu Dhabi International School. "I didn’t want any student to go through what I faced. In addition, I want to develop students’ abilities and boost their confidence." His unpleasant experiences became the spark that motivated him to create the campaign which targets physical and cyber bullying. It was launched in 2013 when Yazan was in 8th grade. He praised the support provided by his friends and teachers. There are three key elements. At the school level, Yazan raised awareness about the types of bullying. He made videos, distributed brochures and conducted plays from 2013 until 2015. He expanded it to inter-school level with projects held at places such as Al Najah Private School and International Community School, with presentations given to grades 1 to 6. The campaign then spread globally on social media. "I’m taking advantage of Instagram and Facebook to raise awareness at the international level," he said. "In fact, I’m assigning ambassadors in different parts of the world. I also assigned them from schools in the UAE." One of the biggest problems in tackling bullying is that many children do not speak up about the abuse they suffer, he said. "The victims simply keep the problem to themselves, allowing the bully to influence and negatively affect other students and the cycle goes on," he said. "In fact, one of the targets of the presentations is to make students speak up. They shouldn’t fear those bullies. Those bullies are actually scared, that’s why they threaten the students." Constant bullying can have significant impact on a child’s self-confidence and self-esteem. The campaign has helped to give confidence to many children, Yazan said. "We have had students who didn’t like to present and get engaged in the class because their classmates used to tease them," he said. Schools did not take bullying seriously but that is changing as online bullying has increased in recent years and now tougher rules are in place in many schools, he said. "In fact, there are serious consequences if someone bullies a student even outside the school such as online sites. Cyber bullying, unfortunately, makes bullying easier as users can be anonymous on certain sites." Schools should focus on raising awareness of the damage a bully can do rather than simply sending them home for a couple of days. Sally Faisal, a biology teacher at Abu Dhabi International School taught Yazan at Grade 8 and has seen the impact his campaign has made. "Even though he was bullied he was strong enough to do something about it and help other children in a similar situation," she said. "I saw how he gave courage to other children to speak about their experiences in front of the school and how touching that was. "Every pupil was listening to what these children were saying and I think many more understand how damaging bullying can be." © The National via http://www.edarabia.com/137267/dubai-teens-bullying-is-not-okay-campaign-tells-victims-to-speak-up/