Where to buy a Valentine’s Day Card
Choose a token gift or card made by you. If you are lacking the creative confidence, look for a card made with upcycled materials online.
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8 green Valentine gifts that won’t put you in the red
A year has passed since I penned a sampler of how Valentine’s Day goes down in the Middle East. Tempus fugit, baby, that treacly holiday is back in Jordan with a vengeance and I’m seeing red.
Stupid Cupid Learns Valentine’s Day Middle East Style
The bard believed that a “rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” but labeling mid-February fun as a Valentine’s event is controversial in the Middle East. What began as a quiet Western tradition, indulged by the leisure class, got a post-industrial kick-in-the-pants thanks to annual promotion from a growing news industry. Simply scrawl […]
Iraqis love Valentine’s Day. We don’t love new consumerism
As it turns out, I haven’t received a Valentine’s Day gift since 2006, but even when I wasn’t single and out saving the world, I never encouraged my boyfriends to give me chocolates or flowers. A book? A sweet card? Maybe. But since anyone can go out and buy a box of chocolates at the […]
Treat Your Valentine to a Hot Snowshoeing Tour in Lebanon
Adventures in Lebanon is offering a Valentine’s Day snowshoeing tour that is bound to heat up this special day! Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and if you’re anything like us, you’re scratching your head looking for fun-loving things to do that don’t involve diabetes-inducing chocolate and environmentally destructive flowers. Why not treat your […]
How Fair Is That Rose, Dear Egypt?
Before you pick up your sweetheart’s flowers this years, check first to find out where they come from. Only one month before Valentine’s day, when thousands of women are expected to swoon over after a last minute pitch to be romantic, Egypt will host the world’s leading flower producers at a three day long exhibition. […]