How It All Began

In June 2005, following a lengthy waiting process after being informed I had been selected for the position, I left my US State of residence for the United Arab Emirates and to work as an academic librarian in the United Arab Emirates University's Libraries Deanship. During my first several months in the UAE as an expat I, wrote several Newsletters which I posted from my email account to family and other individuals who had requested updates on my Arabian experience.

The blog I had planned to create as a preferred forum did not materialize as I became more enmeshed by work requirements, but based on suggestions and requests from Readers, I have decided to create this blog and transfer to it all the Newsletters, and the News Briefs that succeeded the Newsletters, as I had less and less time to devote to the task. Now I just have to figure out how to add all of them!

Enjoy!

Pat (Buveh)