Shopping in Amman
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Al-Burgan
A selection of crafts and souvenirs with knowledgeable staff and reasonable prices. It’s behind Jordan InterContinental Hotel.
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Silsal Ceramics
Has a small showroom of superb modern pottery with price tags that are surprisingly reasonable. If you’re coming along Zahran St from 5th Circle, it’s the third small street on the right.
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Safeway, Shmeisani
There is an outlet of Safeway, Shmeisani around 500m southwest of the Sports City junction.
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Wild Jordan
The nature store at the Wild Jordan Centre sells ecotourism products made in Jordan’s nature reserves, including silver, organic herbs and jams from Dana, and candles made and decorated by Bedouin women as part of an income-generating project in Feinan. All profits go back to the craftspeople and to the nature-reserve projects.
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Iraqal-Amir Handicraft Village
West of Amman, the village of Iraq al-Amir, opposite the caves of the same name, is home to the Iraqal-Amir Handicraft Village, selling handmade pottery, fabrics, foodstuffs, carpets and paper products. The project was founded by the Noor al-Hussein Foundation, and employs dozens of women from the surrounding area.
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Beit al-Bawadi
The place for quality ceramics, created to support local artisans, who you can see working in the basement. Designs are both traditional and modern (lampshades and dinner sets), some decorated with Arabic calligraphy, and pieces cost around JD30 to JD60. The top floor has discounted items. Credit cards are accepted.
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Al-Alaydi Jordan Craft Centre
With an overwhelming selection spread over several floors, it’s difficult to leave here without spending money. Items include jewellery, Hebron glassware, Palestinian embroidery, kilims, wood carvings, old kitchen implements and Bedouin tent accessories. Prices are marked in both dinars and US dollars.
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Abdoun Mall
Mall mania is sweeping through areas of Amman. The biggest is Mecca Mall in the northwestern suburbs, with a cinema, bowling alley, video arcade and dozens of restaurants. Abdoun Mall is a smaller version of the same thing. More are bound to follow.
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Jordan River Foundation
There’s an emphasis on home design here, with cushions, camel bags, candles, embroidery, baskets (from Wadi Rayan in the Jordan Valley) and Dead Sea products, all at high prices to match the high quality.
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Mecca Mall
Mall mania is sweeping through areas of Amman. The biggest is Mecca Mall in the northwestern suburbs, with a cinema, bowling alley, video arcade and dozens of restaurants.
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Artisana
This excellent small showroom has a wide range that includes scarves, bottles of holy water from the Jordan River and reproductions of the famous 6000-year-old statues from Ain Ghazal.
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Bawabet al-Sharq
The ‘Gate of the Orient’ has locally made (some on site) home decor items tending towards the kitsch. Sales benefit several Jordanian women’s groups.
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duty-free shop
Amman has a Tourists can buy duty-free products here, including 1L of booze and 200 cigarettes, during the first 14 days of their visit. Bring your passport.
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Bustami’s Library
Right in the heart of downtown, this tiny bookstand is the place to go for up-to-date Western magazines and newspapers.
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Haboob Grand Stores
A central food store is Haboob Grand Stores, between 1st and 2nd circles; it sometimes closes on Fridays.
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Titles
Across from the Flower of Life Bookshop, with a good selection of books for sale and DVDs to rent.
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C-Town Shopping Centre, Sweifieh
C-Town Shopping Centre, Sweifieh also has a branch close to 7th Circle, as well as in Shmeisani.
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Oriental Souvenirs Store
This friendly, family-run store is quite rustic and something of an Aladdin’s Cave.
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Al-Aulama Bookshop
Good for hard-to-find locally produced (and Lonely Planet) guidebooks, maps and postcards.
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Salam Centre
One good place, among many, offering memory cards, battery chargers and video cassettes.
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Amman Bookshop
Just down from 3rd Circle, it has the best range of books and novels in Amman.
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Safeway, Sweifieh
There is an outlet of Safeway, Sweifieh just southwest of 7th Circle.
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