Come home for Christmas
Living a world away puts the holiday season in a very different perspective.
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What makes a national stereotype? And if we don’t live up to them, how can we expect others to?
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What do we do when our work ceases to be a motivational factor in our lives?
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Fonder for the absence
Sometimes being away from a place reshapes how we remember it
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Future dreams in present verb tenses
Visualize the future? Live in the present? With so much conflicting advice, it’s hard to know how best to turn our dreams into reality!
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Expecting the unexpected
As Christmas approaches in Dubai, it’s an unusual combination of the familiar and the unexpected
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It’s the simple things
Living abroad means sometimes the everyday normal can appear incredibly strange, and vice versa
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Third culture
Born in one place and raised in another by parents from somewhere else. It’s difficult not to feel out of place in a city as multicultural as Dubai. But it makes you wonder: what would it be like to raise a child here?
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So far away
As Nancy unpacks her own suitcases, she muses on the unsettling nature of settling in somewhere new.
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Confronting familiarity in unfamiliar places
On the pros and cons and complexities of the ex-pat community
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