دبي هي نيويورك … وهي دلهي هي باريس… وهي القاهرة هي الرياض وبيروت دبي هي أنا، وهي أنت دبي هي كما تريد أن تراها… كما تريد أن تراها من رواية “ليلة واحدة في دبي” لهاني نقشبندي في آخر أياّم إقامتي في مدينة دبي كنت في إحدى المكتبات أبحث عن بعض الكتب لأشتريها وإذا بعيني تلمح [...]
WHAT the hell?! I’ve been lying on my back for 30 minutes for NOTHING! does that mean I have to take another half an hour, without moving? In this cold room? inside this awful machine? Would I be able to do it? I could hear my heart beating like crazy, I could feel my cheeks [...]
Did you ever have an MRI scan? (I sure hope you didn’t and you wont EVER). Is it only me, or is this thing a torture machine? My doctor recommended I have an MRI scan a while ago; as it is the case with almost all doctors here in Dubai, no matter how silly or [...]
On his 4th Birthday I asked Adam: so what do you want to do on your big day tiger? Adam: wanna go to the aquarium. Eman: hmm, nice idea, ok get ready we’ll be leaving soon. 10 minutes later, he comes, shoes on, water bottle in hand, and a small plastic bag with something colorful [...]
Adam and I woke up really early today. By 8:15 we were bored to death, extremely active, and we both wanted to swim. Adam made it clear that he wants to swim in the “waves” aka sea, and make a sand castle with beach sand. So I thought why not, I know sea water is [...]
I absolutely love the lyrics -and music- of Shania Twain’s “Ka-ching”. When I moved to Dubai, and whenever I listened to it, I couldn’t help but associate its lyrics to life here in Dubai, it’s as if this song was especially created to reflect and address the materialistic lifestyle in this city; the urge to [...]
A few days ago I was thinking of how often we were getting sick here in Dubai. It’s been a year and a few months since we moved here, and I’m not exaggerating when I say, we never stopped getting sick ever since we set foot here. Starting with usual mild illnesses such as colds, going [...]
The world is still talking about the opening of the highest man-built tower , or skyscraper as many prefer stressing out, Burj Dubai, oops, sorry Burj Khalifa, as it was renamed today at the launch of this amazingly beautiful, breath-taking tall architectural challenge. So after a few months of launching Dubai metro, the longest auto-driven [...]
I have probably mentioned that the past few years have succeeded in turning me into a winter person who’d rather freeze in the dark than burn in the sun. Maybe this whole climate change has turned summer into this annoyingly unbearable season rather than a lovely sunny time in which you can do anything at [...]
Happy National Day to UAE and its locals 5 years ago, and out of nothing but admiration and respect to UAE and the accomplishments it has witnessed in a short period of time, I actually blogged about UAE National day, yes, that was 5 years ago. Back then, I didn’t really know that after 5 [...]
