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A Pilgrim's Progress
She shimmied right here. Or it might have been there. Or – down a bit, over a bit – ooh yes, just there. Summoning up the ghost of the ancient world’s most erotic dancer atop a windblown Jordanian mountain demands imagination, but once I was able to dream Salome into existence, my reward was…
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The Quiet Revolution
“Best Business Travel/Trade Feature 2008” – British Guild of Travel Writers
When he visited Abu Dhabi thirty years ago, travel writer Jonathan Raban wrote that the city “was like a hotel… everyone was in transit. Even the [locals] had been turned into guests, en route from a nomadic past to a sketchy future.” …
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In Search of Sindbad
Ali Juma Al-Araimi rubbed his chin. “No, I don’t know anything about Sindbad,” he said, and leaned on the heavy teak door of his workshop, masts of replica miniature dhows rising behind his shoulder. “But ask on the shore around sunset. People might know.”
It had been six months earlier, in a tourist guidebook to Oman, that…
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