Middle East
For the third year in a row, Susan and I attended the conference Middle Eastern Nurses Uniting in Human Caring. This year’s title was Human Caring in a Time of World Crisis, a theme chosen almost a year ago, before the most recent war between Israel and Gaza, before the hideous executions by ISIS, most[…]
Four years ago, Susan and I toured Jordan for the first time. Through the internet, I hired a driver/tour guide based on an ad from a Jordan tour company. This driver, Mazen, met us at the airport holding a sign with our names on it. Spending hours together with him in the car[…]
The world is a big place…I was picked up at 3am to travel to the Mumbai airport for a 6:40am Turkish Airlines flight, which flew seven hours from Mumbai to Istanbul. After a couple of hours in the chaotic, crowded, and very international Istanbul airport, I flew two hours to the Ben Gurion airport outside[…]
I could write a substantial narrative about our first few days in Jordan: arriving in Amman, driving from Amman to Aqaba, taking a 4-wheel Jeep excursion into the Wadi Rum nature area, and visiting the amazing archeological treasures of Petra. Instead, I will let my photos tell those stories. This blog will address a far[…]
The Arab Kingdom of Dubai is a mere three-hour flight from India, but it’s a different world. It feels something like Las Vegas, but without the casinos. The architecture is amazing, including the tallest building in the world (equal to two Empire State Buildings). There is the world’s largest shopping mall, which even includes its[…]
Statistics say that Qatar is the richest country in the world measured by per capita income for its citizens (approx. 185,000). That does not apply to Qatar’s total population of approximately two million. Of that two million, 1.8 million are immigrant laborers. I’m not sure that we ever met an actual Qatari during our three[…]
News Coverage Abroad In Amman, Jordan, the Grand Hyatt’s television had four news stations grouped sequentially: CNN World, BBC, Fox News, & Al Jazeera English. It was very convenient to compare news coverage by jumping back and forth between the channels. Here are my observations: CNN World is different from CNN USA. None[…]