ForumTitleContentMemberSexCountryDate/Time
Middle East and North Africa221g in Casablanca Morocco
It's highly unlikely that age is the issue here.
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-07-23 22:14:00
Middle East and North AfricaWaiver for meeting...
i've seen it come up in a couple of comments now-did i miss when it suddenly became an easy, no big deal for the average, single, under age 65 MENA guy to get a tourist visa here? or an afghan? i was under the impression that in these here parts, they were still pretty much as rare as unicorns.
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-08-15 17:19:00
Middle East and North AfricaRamadan 2012
i have a whole different mix of them-some actually bought in morocco, others bought in different places, from pottery barn to homegoods. my sister in law has bought me some very pretty ones the last couple of years for my birthday. i have one hanging up in my dining room, near the patio door, the others i have arranged around the living room, mostly around the fireplace. the little lights look pretty, and i don't have to be paranoid my daughter is going to knock one over and set the house on fire.
i spelled the cookies wrong, it was late, and i was tired. they're ghriyba, this is the one i've made before, and will make again.
the buckeyes sound amazing! lemon meringue tarts too.

sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-08-18 17:00:00
Middle East and North AfricaRamadan 2012
Biscuits and chocolate, yum!
I ordered lots of twinkly LED lights, and little LED "candles" for all of my Moroccan lanterns, that finally arrived today, so I'm working on getting things looking festive for the holiday. Tomorrow I need to make a grocery list and get to work. My daughter wants ghribya, and my son wants lemon pie.
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-08-18 01:29:00
Middle East and North AfricaRamadan 2012
Since we aren't eating anything today, my daughter has been bringing us plates of plastic cupcakes and glasses of milk from her play kitchen. I've pretended to eat like four cupcakes already, and it's not even noon!
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-08-12 13:30:00
Middle East and North AfricaRamadan 2012
Awww, that sounds like a fabulous trip! I love Haystack Rock too, and the little tidepools. We stayed there just a few months ago for our 5th anniversary. I think it's really awesome you chose to head to Oregon for that kind of trip, and that it did not disappoint.
It is a pretty cool location-being just an hour and a half to the beach, or an hour and a half to Mt Hood for snowboarding in the winter, and another hour or so to the high desert, in Bend. We love road trips, and there's lots to see around here.
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-08-12 13:25:00
Middle East and North AfricaRamadan 2012
I really like the frozen hibiscus Popsicle idea, that sounds great. I don't think I've ever had Vimto, what's it like?
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-08-08 00:24:00
Middle East and North AfricaRamadan 2012
(notice how easy it is for me to totally go overboard and off topic when it comes to being an Oregon cheerleader, I am positively shameless, lol)
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-08-08 00:22:00
Middle East and North AfricaRamadan 2012
I love Astoria!!
It's one of my favorite Oregon beach towns. I love the hills, and the old Victorian houses, and the cute little downtown area. I like going over the big bridge to Long Beach too. I'm glad you loved it too. You should check out the fish & chips food cart that is built out of an old boat sometime if you get back there, it's so delicious!
I have a few OR beach towns I fantasize about living in too someday, and Astoria is definitely on the list, with Cannon Beach and Gold Beach (I love the redwoods down there).
I am so hoping to get an overnight trip to one of them in these last few weeks of summer, before school for my kiddo starts up.
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-08-08 00:19:00
Middle East and North AfricaRamadan 2012
yeah, i've had a sip of lassi, salted, and didn't like it so much.
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-08-06 13:26:00
Middle East and North AfricaRamadan 2012
i've had "karkaday"--just as agua de jamaica at mexican and salvadoran places. i love it. i prefer it cold over hot.
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-08-06 12:37:00
Middle East and North AfricaRamadan 2012
All of those drinks sound lovely!
Since it's the last two weeks, I might try making something more adventurous. We've had some coconut water blended with different fruit in the mornings, and I've made horchata a few times.
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-08-06 10:51:00
Middle East and North AfricaRamadan 2012
Has anyone ever tried making sobia?
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-08-04 23:31:00
Middle East and North AfricaRamadan 2012

LoL at real coffee only being Turkish...that stuff is like motor oil scraped out of an engine hahaha! Oooh lemon bluberry...what soda do you put that with? Like Sprite? I put my hazlenut with coke and it was sooooo good!

Good old Western Family brand club soda!
Cheap and fizzy. I had a grape one tonight, and it tasted a bit like dimetapp. I have always loved that taste. Hazelnut and coke sounds like an interesting combo though.
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-07-27 02:01:00
Middle East and North AfricaRamadan 2012
My sister plays coffee snob too and disses Dutch Bros. Meanwhile she drinks soy milk in her coffee. Soy. I just can't even...
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-07-26 01:59:00
Middle East and North AfricaRamadan 2012
Caramelizers and Cocomos are my favorite from DB too.
Some mornings I need Double Torture though, and its two extra shots.
When I made the kids their sodas, they insisted I cover the tip of the straw in whip cream, just like they do on kids drinks @ Dutch Bros :)
I'm not an Irish cream fan, so I don't really like Kickers.
Annihilators are good though. I drink DB iced most of the time.
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-07-26 01:56:00
Middle East and North AfricaRamadan 2012
Yum!
Get yourself one! I had lemon blueberry, which turned out nice together. Treats never taste quite so good as they do this month. Hazelnut sounds delicious.
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-07-26 01:06:00
Middle East and North AfricaRamadan 2012
We are having a Madagascar 2 night, with Italian sodas. I took kiddos to United Grocers, where they have the most stupendously extensive Torani syrup selection I've ever seen. :)
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-07-25 23:42:00
Middle East and North AfricaRamadan 2012

Did you watch it yet? Thoughts? I didn't see the first twenty minutes, but saw everything after that. Will have to watch the first twenty minutes tonight or over the weekend.

I recorded it at my parents' house, it will probably not be until next weekend that I get some time to myself to watch. I'm looking forward to it though!
Happy ramadaan.
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-07-20 08:29:00
Middle East and North AfricaRamadan 2012
I knew we hadn't seen the last of that nasty old troll, on a national level. She's even got old John McCain all worked up!!
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-07-19 08:08:00
Middle East and North AfricaRamadan 2012
DVR'ed.
I love love love POV, I've seen so many great things on there. Thanks for the heads up msheesha.
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-07-18 21:28:00
Middle East and North AfricaRamadan 2012
Congratulations on your baby!
It really is tricky this time of year. There are simply not enough night hours to physically accomplish everything I want to do, or be where I want to be.

I have had Ramadan either in the US or Saudi Arabia. Having others around you who are fasting and understand what Ramadan is definitely a plus. Depending on the time of year I don't really get the chance to go for taraweeh prayers because they are so late. I was pregnant last year so did not fast. This will be the first year that I get to experience it in the heat.
Ramadan Kareem!!!!!


sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-07-17 08:00:00
Middle East and North AfricaRamadan 2012

Msheesha, my first ramadan was also in the 90s. I thought it was a good time to start since the days were shorter. If we had leftover meat or chicken from the night before we would have that with bread or a bagel for suhoor. If not we would make eggs. If I was too sleepy to eat I would just have water or juice. My favorite thing to have in the house for ramadan was date mamoul. I would have that with coffee or tea for iftar instead of just dates sometimes.

or in tom haverfood speak, suhoor could sometimes be deja food. :)
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-07-14 21:16:00
Middle East and North AfricaRamadan 2012
Bumping this up to the first page, just because.
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-07-14 16:10:00
Middle East and North AfricaDenied

And did you answer, "Yes, there are lots of hippies in Portland"? :lol:

oh yes! he had been reading about saturday market, lol!
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-08-07 17:58:00
Middle East and North AfricaDenied
i didn't realize this happened-so when people are given denial letters, specifics from the interview are listed as the reasons, like not being able to find the state on a map, etc? i always thought those letters were very, annoyingly, vague and nondescriptive.
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-08-07 16:14:00
Middle East and North AfricaDenied

Denials are NOT based on the "mood" of he CO. That is completely false. Sometimes they get it wrong (either denying a legitimate couple or approving a scam), but mostly they get it right. They are very good at what they do and have seen it all before. The process is most certainly not capricious, though people who don't understand it might feel like it is.

It is very odd that a person who is planning to move somewhere cannot point to the place on the map. It's not a question of geography of the world, it is the place the person is planning to move to in the next month. The lack of curiosity about the new home says a lot. That was a wise decision to deny on that (and, your story changed, at first you said he couldn't name the state, now you say he couldn't point to it).

Have you read the fraud warning on the Consulate website? http://morocco.usemb...ance-visas.html

It is near the bottom of the page, "Internet Romance and Marriage Fraud."

that's true. my husband was totally into learning about the place that he was moving to. cause that's like, kind of a big deal. leaving your whole life in one country to move to another, i'd want to learn lots about it too. i remember him asking me "so, is this true what i read about there being lots of hippies in portland? what are they like anyways". lol.
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-08-07 16:08:00
Middle East and North AfricaEID greetings from around the world
Day 3 of the party! Today is play at the park day. We've been having a smashing good time this Eid.
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-08-21 13:17:00
Middle East and North AfricaJewish Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia
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Delacroix, Jewish Wedding in Morocco

Edited by sandinista!, 01 June 2012 - 01:37 AM.

sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-06-01 01:36:00
Middle East and North Africatunisians journey to europe

Salaam, hello!
Again thank you for posting these articles, pics and videos. Culture and history really interests me, esp since Algeria is now my adopted home machallah!

That's certainly an interesting takeaway from this particular thread, to say the least.
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-09-03 15:50:00
Middle East and North Africatunisians journey to europe
Was your collar popped while you wrote this? Have you been spotted in a Brooks Brothers recently?

And I prefer FedEx to ups for my postage needs. You?

Edited by sandinista!, 04 June 2012 - 01:21 AM.

sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-06-04 01:21:00
Middle East and North Africatunisians journey to europe
Oh dear, this account, with all of its verification and sources and whatnot does not appear to have made the islamophobe Internet circuit, strangely enough. Thank you for sharing this here. What a horrible, awful series of events too. :(

And how disgusting that there are those who would drag these poor people's bodies up from the ocean floor to make bigot hay with. Gross.

The Telegraph interviewed a female survivor, who stated that around 100 people were thrown overboard after dying onboard, and that "especially" women had perished. Not exactly the same as tossing women screaming overboard.

http://www.telegraph...fugee-boat.html


sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-06-03 23:36:00
Middle East and North Africatunisians journey to europe
Yawn.
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-06-03 18:00:00
Middle East and North Africatunisians journey to europe
It's more credible if a guy named Tarek does the declaring and then disappears off into the sunset. See if you can track him down.
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-06-03 17:52:00
Middle East and North Africatunisians journey to europe
Source? It's telling that the only people who picked up this completely non-verifiable "newsstory" were the likes of Pamela Geller and her fellow trashbags. The original Italian story posts nothing at all verifying this happened- no last names from the two people alleging this happened, no reports of calls for further investigation into whether or not this happened, nothing. This is not news, it's a particle of a story that's completely and totally unverified since it was first alleged.
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-06-03 17:32:00
Middle East and North AfricaThe hoping not to be denied at Casablanca thread

Awww Staashi! You remembered! :luv:

i ordered one a little while back, because chocolate and raspberry along with coffee is the ultimate yum in my book, but the barista must have been the suck, because the coffee part was bad, bad, bad. sooo...i tried another place, where they made me a chocolate raspberry milkshake, and it was the.most.amazing.thing.on.this.planet.

just sayin.
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2010-07-10 00:00:00
Middle East and North AfricaThe hoping not to be denied at Casablanca thread
that is a good question msheesha, and i imagine it must be very difficult to distinguish such delicate nuances in a relationship in a consulate interview. it's something i could discuss for hours with friends and family who all have their own unique and different reasons for being with their SOs, and still not even begin to cover all the fine details.

another thing i hate to see, and i have seen it rear its ugly head plenty of times on vj, is the slamming of mena females. it happens time and time again, where american women will swallow these awful generalizations they'll hear mena men say about mena women, hook line and sinker, and make it part of their own mantra. "mena women just care about money" "mena women are selfish, greedy, snobs, that's why i want to marry an american" then it turns into "see, that's why he loves me, all the women back home are just awful, blah blah blah" it pretty much sucks, and i get irate when i see it.
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2010-06-24 15:30:00
Middle East and North AfricaHeyyy whats up
no return to vj is ever complete without someone harping on the returnee about something trivial, and not really any of their business.
sarah, i hope you get yr darn car back. very, very soon. even though it's a prius ;)
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-09-02 19:29:00
Middle East and North AfricaAbuse Victims
i thought that this was interesting, from the CDC website--
All forms of IPV (intimate partner violence), from episodic violence to battering, are preventable. The key to prevention is focusing on first-time perpetration and first-time victimization. Knowledge about the factors that prevent IPV is lacking. CDC is working to better understand the developmental pathways and social circumstances that lead to this type of violence. In addition, the agency is helping organizations evaluate the effectiveness of existing programs to reduce both victimization and perpetration.
http://www.cdc.gov/V...ELTA/index.html
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-08-06 15:17:00
Middle East and North AfricaK1 Visa with a substantial age difference

You're missing the point. Since it's not common in MENA countries, it's viewed as a red flag.

but, but making out everyone in immigration as being big, bad, evil, and ageist ogres is such an effective deflection from that point...
sandinista!FemaleMorocco2012-09-10 10:02:00