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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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"It had pizza sauce on it, which I wasn't anticipating." -colleague, after a bite of a "slice" -
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 ... -
It really hit home how much my perspective has changed since moving to the Middle East when Nicholas Sarkozy, the president of France, said ...
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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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