I was glad to meet wonderful artist Ali Maher, who was so kind to draw me the image below on the placemat paper at the restaurant while we had dinner. Thank you Ali! You’re such a special person

For the photos, there’s more on Flickr & Facebook but here’s a selection for the blog:

Restaurant on Rainbow st.

Leb group (from left to right): Mounia Akl, Cyril Aris, guess who? & Naeema Zarif

Tiles at the Royal Film Commission

DVD room at RFC

RFC stairs

View from hotel room

CC Salon presentation

L'auberge

3arayess at Shahrazad

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To those of you who missed day 1, here it is.

So day 2 was rich and fun! Rainbow street is my favourite part of Amman. It’s a cultural/artsy street, beautifully designed. The Royal Film Commission is the most beautiful thing I’ve seen in Amman: an old renovated villa, where people can watch/talk about/plan/edit/film movies. Then we went to Darat Al Funun under lovely Lina‘s guidance. The CC Salon was an amazing event, and it was a chance to meet and greet lovely people/artists from Amman & the Arab world. I am really thrilled by the feedback I got after the presentation, thank you so much to all who were there After that, we headed to ‘Shahrazad’, a traditional restaurant in a popular area, formerly a cinema. Very vernacular. The food was great and the company was amazing. A big thank you to Mohamed Kilani & Kamel Al Asmar for their fantastic hospitality!

Now see you tomorrow in the 3rd and last part of the trip! (and the most action-packed part ) Hasta mañana queridos!

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And that was day #1 in Jordan. I’ll tell you about day #2 tomorrow.

I missed you guys so much!!! The stay in Amman was beautiful, we were overwhelmed by the Jordanian’s hospitality (Royal Film Commission, Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship, 7iber.com to name a few). When I say ‘we’ I mean the wonderful group of Lebanese artists with who I went on this trip. They are: Naeema Zarif, visual artist, and Mounia Akl & Cyril Aris, filmmakers. You guys were lovely to travel with!

More details about the CC Salon & what followed tomorrow! But I’ll give you a sneak peak: here’s a video of my presentation at the CC Salon (thanks Cyril for the video), photos tomorrow!

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2faRRPXhJZo]

I’m glad to be back, have a lovely day