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How to be a happy expat
Because a cloud wall makes you want to take a selfie. After 10 years living in the UAE, some of that time happy, some miserable and ...
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My colleague was out at Mushrif Mall earlier and snapped this photo. She said goodies were in the oven and staff told her it would open i...
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Because a cloud wall makes you want to take a selfie. After 10 years living in the UAE, some of that time happy, some miserable and ...
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This mosaic hangs in a bar I tend to visit several times a month, which I have already written about extensively. Mostly because I simply ca...
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LOL !! I wonder how it works? Does it cleanse your sins, or is it some kind of Arabic morning-after pill?
The translation is a bit wrong. The arabic word used ('athara) is commonly used to describe .. well .. girls who have not been married before. but in the sense that they are "fair maidens". ITs rarely used in day-to-day conversations, usually in some old songs.
So yea, virginity is not really the proper translation.
-M.
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