Year: 2019

The Solar Eclipse in Abu Dhabi

Post author By jbenno
Post date 2019-12-26

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

Flags of the Season

Post author By jbenno
Post date 2019-12-12

Wondering who’s exoticism is sold here

Post author By jbenno
Post date 2019-12-07

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?

Diversity of religions

Post author By jbenno
Post date 2019-12-07

Christmas in the Emirates

Post author By jbenno
Post date 2019-12-07

Merry shopping and Frohes Fest!

Ashtrays

Post author By jbenno
Post date 2019-12-07

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

Tarikh Al Tabari

Post author By jbenno
Post date 2019-12-07

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

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

Post author By jbenno
Post date 2019-12-07

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

Post author By jbenno
Post date 2019-12-07

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 …

Hydroponic Farming

Post author By jbenno
Post date 2019-12-03

Ultra micro-local farming: The greens are grown right in the supermarket.