After 16y in England-London, finally moved to midd e and have lived in Qatar and Bahrain before came to big D..
it feels like I can live and die here - may be not Dubai but Omman or even S arabia -.
the locals and non-locals, language, believe or not but, the food - arabs have this rich cuisine that you would kill for -, the desert, sky, the brightness of day and the night, little and dusty grocery shops, the taxi drivers that try to rip you, it is every thing that peculiar to the arab land just amazez me..
one of the thing I find painfull about this place is to watch those building site workers doing what they do; I am sure their ancesstors built the Pyramids/Silk road with sweat, blood and for free..
It is hard sometimes to think existential and stay with the moment..
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