Qatar…From Afar: Entitlement — License to Abuse?
An example of how students at Qatar Academy deliberately made my life in Qatar so difficult that I hit bottom -- professionally and personally.
Parting Words to a Qatari Student
Parting words to a Qatari student on Facebook following a number of exchanges about Qatar and FIFA, in which he essentially painted the Arabs as victims of racism.
Qatar…From Afar: Long Flight To Freedom
When you have suffered gravely, you view and live life a certain way.
Far from making others suffer or wishing suffering on others, for instance, you don't even wish suffering on those you hold responsible for your own suffering. Knowing what it was like, you want to do everything you can to alleviate the sufferings of others instead.
Qatar…From Afar: Uncomfortable Questions II
Did Qatar Academy know that the parent, who filed formal complaints against me at the school and got me fired, would also be filing felony charges with the authorities and would have me jailed?
Qatar…From Afar: Uncomfortable Questions I
What if, in my place, there had been a "Western" teacher?
Qatar…From Afar: Irony of Ironies
What I thought of, and expected from, Muslims and Arabs in general before I arrived in Qatar, and what I actually discovered about who, what and how they are as a people, based on how they treated me (and other Asians).
Qatar…From Afar: 121212
The details of everything that happened during the 11 nights and 12 days I spent in a Qatari jail for allegedly insulting Islam!
Qatar…From Afar: Mayday Mayday May Day
The fateful day I show up at the police station when I find out what I was supposedly to have said to be accused of insulting Islam and the subsequent incarceration.
Qatar…From Afar: The (Un)expected
All about that which happened, which I really didn't expect to happen, but had feared might happen!