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Iraq has become a no-flight zone

Iraq has become a no-flight zone

Author jbennoPosted on January 11, 2020Categories Uncategorized

The Solar Eclipse in Abu Dhabi

The Solar Eclipse in Abu Dhabi
The eclipse started before sunrise and reached the maximum cover at 7:37 here at Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi
The thin crescent watched through the homemade camera obscura
Author jbennoPosted on December 26, 2019December 26, 2019Categories Uncategorized

Flags of the Season

Flags of the Season
Author jbennoPosted on December 12, 2019December 12, 2019Categories Uncategorized

Wondering who’s exoticism is sold here

Wondering who’s exoticism is sold here

People like me are called or call themselves Westerners here. So we regard ourselves and are regarded occidental. Are we thus the exotic in the orient or are people from here self-identifying as exotic the way we identify as western?

Author jbennoPosted on December 7, 2019December 8, 2019Categories Uncategorized

Diversity of religions

Diversity of religions
Author jbennoPosted on December 7, 2019December 8, 2019Categories Uncategorized

Christmas in the Emirates

Christmas in the Emirates

Merry shopping and Frohes Fest!

Author jbennoPosted on December 7, 2019December 8, 2019Categories Uncategorized

Ashtrays

Ashtrays

The historic assembly room of the National Consultative Council of Abu Dhabi

Author jbennoPosted on December 7, 2019December 8, 2019Categories Uncategorized

Tarikh Al Tabari

Tarikh Al Tabari

From the library of Sheikh Sakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan at Qasr al Hosn.

Author jbennoPosted on December 7, 2019December 8, 2019Categories Uncategorized

Bottle of crude oil from one of the first exploratory drillings, once owned by Sheikha Salama bint Butti

Bottle of crude oil from one of the first exploratory drillings, once owned by Sheikha Salama bint Butti

The Sheikha is said to have taken this bottle from the drilling site back to her home at Al Ain to show it to her son, the later Sheikh Zayad bin Sultan Al Nahyan.

Qasr al Hosn

Author jbennoPosted on December 7, 2019December 8, 2019Categories Uncategorized

Qasr al Hosn

Qasr al Hosn

The tower of the outer wall of the original Abu Dhabi fort Qasr al Hosn was built by late Sheikh Shakhbut bin Sultan al Nahyan in 1948. Just a few decades lie between the tower in the front and those in the back …

Author jbennoPosted on December 7, 2019December 8, 2019Categories Uncategorized

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