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Breaktime/Thinking Allowed
Author:Jon Muller
Syed Sabir has been living in the Capital since January of this year. Originally from Mumbai, this self-described “nomad by heart” currently works as an optician. We asked him what he likes best...
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Author:Kara Martin
I really don’t mind taking the bus. But I had feared that with fares as cheap as a dirham, the buses in Abu Dhabi would be as painful to sit in as the theatre during a Michael Bay movie. I suppose...
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Breaktime/Thinking Allowed
Author:Krystyna Mawby
Feeling gloomy about the way the world is going? Too much economic misery? One bad news day after another? Hey, let’s cheer ourselves up: let’s put the boot into the UAE. It’s not a democracy:...
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Breaktime/Thinking Allowed
Author:Krystyna Mawby
When I first arrived in Abu Dhabi, friends would make jokes like “what’s the time difference between London and Abu Dhabi? Forty years” and so on. And I heard colleagues in Dubai tell me how...
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Author:Krystyna Mawby
The wheel, quite obviously, was a very clever invention. It enabled us and our stuff to get from A to B in a much quicker fashion – and meant we could rest our legs a little. Over time, what...
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Breaktime/Thinking Allowed
Author:Krystyna Mawby
For many of us, queuing is a natural instinct. It’s not that we really like to do it as such, it’s just seems to be programmed into us. Personally I like to think of it as plain and simple...
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Breaktime/Thinking Allowed
Author:Krystyna Mawby
In the beginning was the telephone. Old-fashioned it may seem now, but the telephone was a simple tool, used to allow one person to speak with another some distance away. It merely provided a simple...
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Breaktime/Thinking Allowed
Author:Krystyna Mawby
There are some household items that just make life liveable, aren’t there? I wouldn’t be without my kettle, for instance, and a nice bedside lamp for reading in the evening is essential. These...
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Breaktime/Thinking Allowed
Author:Krystyna Mawby
A series of business trips to Europe recently (Britain, Italy, Germany) didn’t exactly leave this expat hankering for the Good Old Days, but it did jog the memory. Here, in no particular order, was...
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