http://www.andfaraway.net/blog/2005/07/18/ya-mal-il-sham/ Another Casualty to the Seduction Of Art Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.andfaraway.net/blog/2005/07/18/ya-mal-il-sham/comment-page-1/#comment-4171 PlagiarismToday » Yet Another Reason Not to Plagiarize Fri, 08 Sep 2006 01:41:23 +0000 http://andfaraway.net/blog/2005/07/18/ya-mal-il-sham/#comment-4171 [...] But while that is more than bad enough, what makes the situation worse is that the photograph, which was supposed to show off “The Art of Traditional Jordanian Cooking”, wasn’t even taken in Jordan. Though Al-Assi is a Jordanian herself, the photo was taken on a trip to neighboring Syria. [...] [...] But while that is more than bad enough, what makes the situation worse is that the photograph, which was supposed to show off “The Art of Traditional Jordanian Cooking”, wasn’t even taken in Jordan. Though Al-Assi is a Jordanian herself, the photo was taken on a trip to neighboring Syria. [...]

]]> http://www.andfaraway.net/blog/2005/07/18/ya-mal-il-sham/comment-page-1/#comment-4120 And Far Away... Thu, 07 Sep 2006 11:40:45 +0000 http://andfaraway.net/blog/2005/07/18/ya-mal-il-sham/#comment-4120 [...] So yesterday, I was paging through the latest issue of the Yellow Pages and looking at the section on Jordan, when I found this very familiar looking image. I mean, of course it’s familiar, I took it last summer when I went to Syria with my grandfather! For a few minutes I thought that perhaps its just an eerily similar picture, because no one had asked for my permission to put it in print and the picture wasn’t taken in Jordan anyway. When I went home and though and checked, I indeed confirmed that it was the picture I took last year of the psuedo mansaf in Damascus that I thought was rather funny (because it is NOTHING like the Jordanian mansaf), but now, my picture of the psuedo-Mansaf is being advertised in a section entitled “The Art of Traditional Jordanian Cooking”!!! [...] [...] So yesterday, I was paging through the latest issue of the Yellow Pages and looking at the section on Jordan, when I found this very familiar looking image. I mean, of course it’s familiar, I took it last summer when I went to Syria with my grandfather! For a few minutes I thought that perhaps its just an eerily similar picture, because no one had asked for my permission to put it in print and the picture wasn’t taken in Jordan anyway. When I went home and though and checked, I indeed confirmed that it was the picture I took last year of the psuedo mansaf in Damascus that I thought was rather funny (because it is NOTHING like the Jordanian mansaf), but now, my picture of the psuedo-Mansaf is being advertised in a section entitled “The Art of Traditional Jordanian Cooking”!!! [...]

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