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Category Archives: “Normal” Places We Go
Inside Ras Al Khaimah’s Ghost Town
Article And Photos By Bernie Debusmann For most people who have visited or live in the UAE, it’s hard to imagine what the country was like in the days before the world’s tallest building, seven-star hotels, overly-air conditioned shopping malls and an indoor ski slope. The few “old” structures in Dubai or Abu Dhabi, … Continue reading
American Concentration Camps: Tule Lake Unit
OK, sure, they weren’t as bad as those concentration camps established by the Nazis or the British when they were fighting the Boers in South Africa. However, these camps established by the United States during World War II (and euphemistically referred to as “War Relocation Centers”) were not exactly holiday resorts either… The first step … Continue reading
The North Koreans of Dubai
Article By Bernie Debusmann Dubai means many things to many people. There is the Dubai of the Burj Khalifa, of seven-star resorts, of drunken western tourists and of rich young Arab men with expensive cars and pet lions. There are the vibrant neighborhoods of Dubai’s largest diaspora communities, where you are more likely to hear … Continue reading
Photo Of The Day: Dubai Souq
Merchants In One Of Dubai’s Souqs Photo by Eleonora Giuliani Continue reading
Photo Of The Day: The Bold Big Guy Of Nizwa
Article by Eleonora Giuliani Among my recent pictures, I decided to share this one with you, because it is accompanied by a story. This past October, after a good dose of “un-normal” traveling experiences, I decided to take a trip to a more “normal” destination – in this case represented by Oman. I rented a … Continue reading
Photos of the Day: Qatar
It may surprise some of my dear readers to learn that there exists a thread connecting Qatar back to the North Caucasus (which will be the focus of a number of upcoming posts). That thread is in the form of Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, the second president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. It appears the FSB … Continue reading
The Velvet Rocket 