- homemade wedding dress young women created there own wedding dresses with help from older experienced woman.
- Death:in Islam burials cant take place after sunset, the bodies are first washed (a man by his wife or his mom if hes not married and a woman usually by another woman)
- woman roles:most woman have arranged marriages
- woman stay home with the kids and cook , clean
- high education: Jordan has three state run univ.
- Arab speakers stand very close to each other
- Jordanian art is mostly tradition-bound in design materials and colors come in forms of handcrafts such as fabric, wood, jewelry
- sports: camel and horse races
- national anthem:long live the king
- currency : Us $1= .75 dinar
- capital: Amman
- area: 35,000 square miles
- geographical regions: jordan river valley , plateau and highlands, desert land.
- Kaffiyeh:traditional Arab head dress for men.
This page is dedicated to sharing information about The Middle East in the timeframe of 1400-1900.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Jordan
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