Archive for 'Travel & Geography'
Libyan Recipe: Bazeen بازين Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Feb 25, 2022
In this post, you will be introduced to the number 1 (savoury) dish in Libya – it’s El-Bazeen البازين. Bazeen is one of the most known delicious and sophisticated dishes across Libya. Tunisia is probably the only other country that makes this dish but is cooked differently. In that sense, El-Bazeen is really unique to…
Saving the Dead Sea Part Two إنقاذ البحر الميت Posted by yasmine on Nov 24, 2021
In last week’s post, we talked about the Dead Sea البحر الميت and began a clip that explains the reasons why البحر الميت is sadly receding تنحسر. In this second part of the clip, we learn about The Bahrain Canal project مشروع قناة البحرين to link البحر الميت to البحر الأحمر as a way to…
Domestic tourism in Covid-19 times السياحة الداخلية (2) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Sep 27, 2021
Welcome to the 2nd part of this blog post مرحبًا بكم في الجزء الثاني من هذه المدونة. Last week, we started talking about domestic/ local tourism السِّيَاحَة الدَّاخِلِيَّة that has been quite popular lately because of the pandemic. We started focusing on article from BBC Arabic that focuses on the tourism situation within the UK…
Domestic tourism in Covid-19 times السياحة الداخلية (1) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Sep 20, 2021
Welcome to a new blog post مرحبًا بكم في مدونة جديدة. Since the beginning of the pandemic, most people were prevented from traveling مٌنِعَ كَثِيرٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ مِنَ السَّفَرْ. Many, as a result, started to travel within their countries بدأ الكَثِيرُونَ فِي السَّفَرِ فِي الدَّاخِل and explore the parts واكْتِشَافِ الأَجْزَاءِ they have not been…
Ghadames غدامس: The Pearl of the Desert (2) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Jul 26, 2021
Welcome to the 2nd part of this blog post. We’re still learning about the unique Libyan city المدينة الليبية المميزة of Ghadames مدينة غدامس, in Libya. As you probably remember, this city is a palm oasis in the middle of the desert and for this reason, it was called: ‘The pearl of the desert“, i.e…
Ghadames غدامس: The Pearl of the Desert (1) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Jul 19, 2021
Today, we’re going to learn about a unique city مدينة مميّزة in Libya, called تُسَمَّى بِـ Ghadames غْدَامِسْ. It’s a Berber town مدينة أمازيغية and is located in the Northwest of Libya وتقع في شمال غرب ليبيا. It’s unique because the town stands in an oasis واحة, in the middle في وسط the desert الصحراء and…
The Tourism Sector in Jordan Posted by yasmine on Jun 30, 2021
Have you traveled to Jordan or is Jordan on your list of countries to visit? Are you familiar with any of the famous tourist sites المواقع السياحية in Jordan? In this post, I thought we’d talk about the tourism sector قطاع السياحة in Jordan; its economic importance أهميتها الاقتصادية, how the coronavirus has affected the…