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Welcome to Iraq: Please take a blood test
30th June 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
During all my visits to Kurdistan –four so far- I have always been impressed by the people’s hospitality. Their gratitude after a week’s work – I am training local journalists through the Independent Media Centre of Kurdistan – is humbling. But when you visit the Asais, the security services, to extend your tourist visa you enter the world of the infuriating Iraqi red tape. All of a sudden you feel...
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First thing you do when you wake up
16th June 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
With my eyes half-closed I tried to find the aircon remote control on my bedside table. Two days ago I woke up in a hotel room in Rotterdam not knowing where I was, but this morning I knew exactly where I was. It was six o’clock and my room was hot because the aircon had timed out following a power cut. I’m in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish semi-autonomous...
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Maaike Veen
Dutch journalist Maaike Veen writes about British politics and economics and the quirky habits of the British people, which after five years in London continue to fascinate her. She works as a freelance UK correspondent for Dutch national newspaper Trouw (www.trouw.nl), Flemish paper De Standaard (www.standaard.be) and Elsevier (www.elsevier.nl), the leading current affairs weekly in the Netherlands. She also writes for business weekly FEMBusiness and on the Dutch pension market for NPN, a trade publication of the Financial Times Group.
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