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While Dubai has had its mafia robberies and high-profile assassinations, Abu Dhabi remains one of the safest cities in the world. This place is so safe, in fact, that its commonplace for...
Thursday, 22 April 2010 Read
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School isn’t exactly what every kid looks forward to, weekends are. That’s just the way it’s always been – and maybe everyone assumes that’s the way it’s supposed to be. The odd part...
Thursday, 15 April 2010 Read
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Seems every time residents of the capital get together, the conversation will turn to one of two topics – the weather and the traffic. Those are two things we always know the answer to. In the...
Wednesday, 07 April 2010 Read
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“Malbari?” That’s the first reaction I usually get when I say I am an Indian; and when I answer in the affirmative I usually get an “ah, obviously” look – as if no other type of Indians...
Thursday, 01 April 2010 Read
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So Abu Dhabi Police is opening a AED 150 million road training facility for kids aged 5 to 17. They get to drive real vehicles (battery-powered up to the age of 12, Minis capable of 40kph for the...
Thursday, 25 March 2010 Read
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A year ago, I found myself on the phone lamenting to my sister back home about how sad I was to be losing my nanny. I’d have to rely on part time nursery school for my only childcare, I wailed, and...
Thursday, 18 March 2010 Read
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Like many expatriate women who come to the UAE single and looking for love, when I arrived seven years ago I felt lucky to have the opportunity to meet people from countries I’d never visited...
Wednesday, 10 March 2010 Read
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I’ve always been a bit of a day-dreamer. I came to work in Abu Dhabi in early June 2005, employed as a nanny to a 13 year old Egyptian-Canadian student, but two years later I found myself...
Wednesday, 03 March 2010 Read
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Buying fruit back home in India is a weekly ritual. Shopping for fruit in Abu Dhabi takes me back to my childhood and to my homeland – and yet a little further around the globe too with each new...
Thursday, 25 February 2010 Read
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Abu Dhabi: high-rises and no hills, crazy traffic roadworks, green parks and valet parking. And a coastline that most of us get to experience (if at all) by paddling in the shallows. But half of the...
Wednesday, 17 February 2010 Read
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