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BAHRAIN — This is my first time in Bahrain. That leaves only really Oman in the area that I haven’t been to / worked in. United Arab Emirates? It’s a part of the world that many people can’t (or choose not to) understand. In the last three weeks [...]
WORLD’S END — I hadn’t realised how odd an address this is to be writing from. But maybe it’s fitting. 30+ years ago I arrived at a boarding school in rural Ontario. I had been living the previous two years in Paris and two years before that in Kenya. While still a Canadian, I was a smart-ass, and a French-fueled nihilist. The Cold War [...] HYDE PARK CORNER — I love Doha. I was thinking about that as I wrote a friend at QTel in Qatar. It’s a lovely place and I know some lovely people there. This week we have seen lots of poorly disguised derisive comments made about Qatar and it’s [...] HEATHROW — There’s a story in the paper today about the Egyptian queen Nefertiti who we can now tell has had an ancient form of facelift. And when you look at that down the years 3,400 years gone, it seems incredibly silly and facile. So how will we look, one or two generations on, fighting our way out of [...] GLOSCESTER ROAD — It’s been a while since I have been in the Middle East. Probably too long. But the good news is that I am going in a few weeks. And, today I worked with a bunch of people from the UAE, Egypt and many other parts of the world. I found it exciting and [...] |
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