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Friday, April 30, 2004
Bye-bye DubaiMy friend Ines, from Boston, leaves Dubai this week after six months in the United Arab Emirates. She's a modern German chick who takes no guff, as a rule, from backward-minded Arab men, but she writes in an e-mail that she'll miss the place. "I will miss the calls for prayer from the nearby
mosque, I will miss the green Gulf coffee, I will miss the sand and the sun and the palm trees. I wish everybody had the opportunity to experience a different culture at least once in their lives, to see for themselves how similar we are, how the same things matter and how much we can learn from each other."
Isn't that sweet? But what could she mean about green Gulf coffee?
Here's a snapshot of a camel crossing somewhere in the UAE:
posted by Michael Scott Moore |
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