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It’s part-studio, part-gallery, part-shop and there’s nowhere else like it. Rima works upstairs and sells her creations downstairs, although “sometimes things spill over and everything becomes a huge mess”. Was Rima confident Love on a Bike would be a hit? “I don’t think my brain works that way,” she muses. “The first time I thought to myself ‘What am I doing?’ was the night before the opening. Before that, it never crossed my mind. I’ve wanted to be an artist since the age of four. I’ve made peace with the fact I’ll never be rich. The support has been amazing – it’s keeping me in business.” Jebal Amman, +962 6461 4288; www.loveonabike.com Lost in Luxor
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Love on a Bike is the remarkable Amman project of Rima Malallah. The hats, scarves, earrings, necklaces and mobile phone holders are all designed and made by the owner in-house. As are the tables, wardrobes, journals, postcards, prints, paintings and anything else the Jordanian artist creates.
Help restore balance to the universe in Luxor Adventures, an addictive puzzle game in which you’ll race through time to keep history intact and meet Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Amelia Earhart along the way. It’s a simple but fiendishly tricky PC game, full of hieroglyphs, pharaohs and mystical orbs. 
Each year millions of people visit Harem Imam Reza in Mashhad, where photography is prohibited. The ban has generated an industry in photo studios, where you can be pictured in front of a painting of the holy site projected onto a white screen – all perfectly legal. Hawkers selling bread and incense add a little dose of much-needed realism.