{"id":9157,"date":"2015-01-30T08:59:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T07:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/?p=7999"},"modified":"2016-04-30T10:34:41","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T09:34:41","slug":"domino-stones-a-blond-woman-and-3-muslim-men-east-west-in-harmony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/30\/domino-stones-a-blond-woman-and-3-muslim-men-east-west-in-harmony\/","title":{"rendered":"Domino stones, a blond woman and 3 Muslim men &#8211; East &#038; West in harmony"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Dibba, United Arab Emirates<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0The relations between the Near and the Middle East, the so-called Arab countries, and the West are not the best. Everybody knows that as propaganda on all sides runs at full throttle.\u00a0Of course, this is not the place for a political discussion, but it can be the place to give proof about culture cohesions and mutual comprehension instead\u00a0of hostility,\u00a0coldness\u00a0and preconceptions.\u00a0And here we go! Enjoy this clip of 2 distinct\u00a0cultures united in playing domino.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><!--more--><\/div>\n<div>In the 80ies I spent some time in Fujairah, UAE,\u00a0therefore\u00a0I payed a visit to the small Emirate in December after my stay in Bahrain. The place has changed\u00a0tremendously and lost lots of its provincial scariness I have experienced back then. Philipp, my camera guy and I drove along the coastline of the Arabic Sea (Indian Ocean) to Dibba\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0the border town to Oman and the\u00a0Street of Hormuz\u00a0&#8211; a small village that doesn\u2019t see many foreigners.\u00a0On our way we went for a coffee into a typical Arabic coffee shop, a place for men\u00a0to talk, gossip, drink\u00a0coffee, tea and smoke the shisha.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GoBDzXFxtxs\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>The video shows the friendliness, hospitality and openness of the guys. No fear of contact disturbed our interaction. With my basic a Arabic the doors were quickly open\u00a0and they invited me to\u00a0play Domino with them. Since my childhood I hadn\u2019t played anymore. I even won a game with my partner who was very particular about the fact that we had to win. It was really fun to play with\u00a0the\u00a0boys.\u00a0I felt comfortable and relaxed.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>By the way, we didn\u2019t have to pay for the coffee. We enjoyed the\u00a0hospitality the Arabs are also famous for. There is \u00a0not only this\u00a0endless monologue of violence that covers the Arabic East.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dibba, United Arab Emirates \u00a0The relations between the Near and the Middle East, the so-called Arab countries, and the West are not the best. Everybody knows that as propaganda on all sides runs at full throttle.\u00a0Of course, this is not the place for a political discussion, but it can be the place to give proof [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2292],"tags":[1578,1594,27,1670,200,1726,1732,1738,1779,1788,1790,1840,1841,1987,2015,2024,2052,86,2237,2261],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9762,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9157\/revisions\/9762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}