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December 5, 2011 0

When a house is not a home: celebrating 40 years of the UAE.

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Congratulations are in order. The country I’ve lived in for over 25 years just celebrated the 40th anniversary of it’s unification. It has come a long way in these 40 years. The pace at which things have changed over the years is just indescribable, especially in the city of Dubai. I like to think I’ve witnessed [...]

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September 23, 2009 6

Pak sar zameen?

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Jagannath Azad was an Urdu poet, born in a small village in West Punjab in what is now Pakistan. His father, Tilok Chand Mehroom, was also an Urdu poet with nearly 200 poems to his name. Both father and son were critically acclaimed poets. Jagannath had an illustrious career: He was a teacher, professor of English and [...]

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