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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 really hit home how much my perspective has changed since moving to the Middle East when Nicholas Sarkozy, the president of France, said ... -
1. I checked out the Pine Leaf Boys, a Cajun band from Lafayette, Lousiana, at the Abu Dhabi Cultural Foundation. I was a little more taken ... -
The National 's opinion section had a great column today by Taryam al Subaihi, a freelance writer from Abu Dhabi, about arranged marriag...
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Ah yes, brought to you by the same people (Unilever) who also flog the delightful Fair & Lovely with marvellously subtle ad campaigns illustrating how lightening your skin helps you get the job/man/life previously unavailable. Yet meanwhile they market Sunsilk products in African markets as proudly developed especially for African hair and Dove as being for all types of women's bodies... But Unilever are no worse than the rest of them: L'Oreal,Beiersdorf (Nivea),P&G all have the same obnoxious appeal to women's insecurities. Personal products and cosmetics are all a complete rip-off. There is very little they can actually do for you beyond the basic function of soap to clean. Yet women (mainly) all over the world seem especially keen to swallow the hype hook, line and sinker...
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