Stories Of Our City

Although Tambi Jalouqa, a 35-year-old software architect from Amman, Jordan, spends most of his days behind a computer desk, a lot of his free time is spent in more extreme ways—behind the bars of an off-road cycling machine. Learn how this trailblazer is helping pioneer the sport of mountain biking in his native Jordan with the help of both local and foreign friends who share his passion for extreme sport.

Adnan Abu Sharkh, more commonly known simply as Sharkhy (SHärkē), has run his authentic Middle Eastern restaurant, Pride of the Mediterranean, in the famed Fillmore district of San Francisco, California, for more than 20 years—since the early ‘90s. Hear Sharkhy share about his love for Arabic food and culture and how he, a native Palestinian, came to be a passionate restaurateur on one of America’s most renowned streets.