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Re: What have the Arabs ever done for us?
Meanwhile Brexitania is coming. The usualk suspects get touchy when someone points out that things are not going so well back in Perfidious Albion.
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Re: What have the Arabs ever done for us?
Originally Posted by scot47
(Post 12636895)
Meanwhile Brexitania is coming. The usualk suspects get touchy when someone points out that things are not going so well back in Perfidious Albion.
Unusual suspect...bollox and lots of it! |
Re: What have the Arabs ever done for us?
Originally Posted by scot47
(Post 12636895)
Meanwhile Brexitania is coming.
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Re: What have the Arabs ever done for us?
Flybmi gone - blaming brexit.
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Re: What have the Arabs ever done for us?
Algebra.
Calligraphy. Chess. It didn't originate there, but it did get imported into Europe from there. |
Re: What have the Arabs ever done for us?
Originally Posted by spouse of scouse
(Post 12635864)
Given those of you working over there the opportunity to earn more than you can in your home countries? If not, why are you there - you must get something out of it?
People go there for a lot of different reasons. I went because I like Arab culture, art and food, and so when my work interests allowed it, I went there and stayed several years. But that is not a common reason why people go there. Some go for the money, if they are in an industry where the Gulf pays more. Some go as a "last job" to top up the retirement fund. Some go because they view it as a way to break monotony and a chance to travel abroad. Some go because they are Western Muslims and think being in the Middle East will provide them with a kind of spiritual cleanse. Some go because they got fired or ran into career difficulties, and they need a second chance or a fresh start but are in the penalty box back home. Some go because they are misfits who don't fit in anywhere else. It is a real mixed bag of allsorts and doesn't fit stereotypes very well. |
Re: What have the Arabs ever done for us?
Originally Posted by Miss Ann Thrope
(Post 12636008)
Humus, moutabel, shawarma, muhumara, fattoush, tabbouleh...
And in fairness, on the numbers thing, and in many other areas of science and art, they did take things quite a way forwards from what the Indians had come up with during the golden decades of the Abbasid caliphate. |
Re: What have the Arabs ever done for us?
Originally Posted by Thairetired2016
(Post 12638739)
You forgot to mention the delicious sweets, pastries, dates.
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Re: What have the Arabs ever done for us?
Originally Posted by carcajou
(Post 12638216)
Be careful with that assumption; my industry, for instance, pays more elsewhere than in the Gulf . . . and the Dubai "Golden Age" has been over for about a decade.
People go there for a lot of different reasons. I went because I like Arab culture, art and food, and so when my work interests allowed it, I went there and stayed several years. But that is not a common reason why people go there. Some go for the money, if they are in an industry where the Gulf pays more. Some go as a "last job" to top up the retirement fund. Some go because they view it as a way to break monotony and a chance to travel abroad. Some go because they are Western Muslims and think being in the Middle East will provide them with a kind of spiritual cleanse. Some go because they got fired or ran into career difficulties, and they need a second chance or a fresh start but are in the penalty box back home. Some go because they are misfits who don't fit in anywhere else. It is a real mixed bag of allsorts and doesn't fit stereotypes very well. |
Re: What have the Arabs ever done for us?
Originally Posted by spouse of scouse
(Post 12638741)
Baklava is the best thing ever :wub:
Greece and Persia... |
Re: What have the Arabs ever done for us?
Originally Posted by Miss Ann Thrope
(Post 12638757)
I don't disagree but, like a few other Eastern Med/Levantine delicacies, there is a range of cultures that might legitimately claim it as their own, taking in pretty much everywhere between
Greece and Persia... |
Re: What have the Arabs ever done for us?
Originally Posted by spouse of scouse
(Post 12638741)
Baklava is the best thing ever :wub:
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Re: What have the Arabs ever done for us?
Originally Posted by nottmbantam
(Post 12638777)
Over rated.
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Re: What have the Arabs ever done for us?
Originally Posted by Miss Ann Thrope
(Post 12638757)
I don't disagree but, like a few other Eastern Med/Levantine delicacies, there is a range of cultures that might legitimately claim it as their own, taking in pretty much everywhere between
Greece and Persia... |
Re: What have the Arabs ever done for us?
Originally Posted by nottmbantam
(Post 12638777)
Over rated.
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