Archive | May, 2010

The Office: Middle East

Last week I was catching you up on the antics in our office and the unplanned but guaranteed hilarity that emerges when you have people of different cultures, faiths, and ages in a small space. We’ve been laughing and groaning through this journey of establishing a start up in the particular context of the Arabian [...]

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Bringing in the Unholy

I’ve lived in the Middle East for five years now and like to think I know what is needed in terms of cultural appropriateness.  Having regular visitors for work who are entirely unprepared for life in the Arabian Gulf helps further confirm that I am an ‘expert’ of a certain kind in dress, speech, behavior. [...]

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