We’ve been discussing the relationships between Qataris and expats for a few weeks and I’ve tried to pose some new angles to lamentation: “I’ve never been inside a Qatari house.” The reasons for this are many, but in the last two weeks, we’ve touched on a few key areas. First: Expats in general do not [...]
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A Short History of Two across Four Houses in Five Years and now: Nanny Makes Three
We’ve lived in the Middle East for five years and not really ever cleaned our own house. Now that we have our first live-in nanny/domestic, it doesn’t seem like we ever will. First there was no need to clean much when I was single because I only used two of the five rooms in my [...]
Contradictions
Here are a list of things people say often in the ex-pat community in Qatar which underline the inability to categorize the transience of bein an ex-pat (an expat is someone who is living outside their country of origin). “When you’re living here permanently for a while….”Translation: We are here but we aren’t here forever, so that is [...]
Someone else in this neighborhood….
likes chocolate doughnut munchkins from Dunkin’ Doughnuts! This is why there are none left for me when I get there. I wonder who it could be – the overweight, impatient teenager, his cheeks showing stretch marks - with his petulant “Give me that one”? Or the rude mother who lets her children deliberate for fifteen minutes on their choice of ice cream, [...]
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