December 29, 2005If you’re a church-going practitioner of religion, you’ll want to locate a church, synagogue, mosque, temple, center, or whatever, at your new home overseas. Continue Reading
Matt Ellsworth December 1, 2005 While at an international conference in Muscat in about 1999, the head of our delegation suffered a mild heart attack. As the only Arabic speaker in the group, it fell to me to accompany him to the hospital, get him admitted, and keep the rest of the delegation apprised of…
As a follow-up to yesterday’s entry about kids abroad, I thought I should say a few things about foreign sports. First, as an element of local culture, sporting events shouldn’t be missed. Whether it’s dragon boat racing, or goat grabs, or camel races, these are the events that show the local populace as it really…
This is the second in a short series intended to promote understanding of the Muslim point of view, in hopes of defusing tensions caused by stupid things like cartoons of Muhammad. (I’m a Christian.) Expats in predominantly Muslim areas, and those in areas with a Muslim presence, should know that these are sensitive times, and that…
Matt Ellsworth February 3, 2006 Sadly, we see attacks by some Muslims as attacks by Islam, and it just isn’t so. But we are left to wonder, what do they have against us? Here’s what, in brief: Continue Reading
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