Meanwhile, a British expatriate faces six months in prison for allegedly "giving the finger" to an Iraqi resident of the Gulf emirate.
Because Thanksgiving prompts the question that expatriates everywhere face: Shouldn't I be going home?
689fda0d-ff28-426d-8f36-1c9319e35484 Last week, we published a case study about a start-up founded by a young Australian expatriate who faced a difficult choice — just how difficult was revealed by the scores of conflicting reader comments that poured in to this blog.
None of these Rumanian expatriates wants to face reality.
But expatriate women also face the challenge of coming from an immigrant community and, sometimes, the tug of home.
The anecdotal columns, in which Australian slang is common, address issues facing many expatriates -- managing finances in Australia from overseas, obtaining credit in a foreign country, finding insurance.
But it is not bursting with telephone numbers and e-mail addresses of people to contact when a dilemma slaps a puzzled expatriate manager in the face.When allegations of bribery come from outside, they often face a wall of silence as a company closes up to protect its own.
Bahrain, whose population of about 500,000 citizens and 200,000 expatriates, is two-thirds Shiite, faced sectarian strife bordering on civil war a decade ago.
Since I wrote my original blog post regarding the tax-time hassles faced by American expatriates, many readers — both on IHT Rendezvous and in e-mails — have enriched the discussion here with comments, criticisms and personal stories.
"He has ordered studying the start of direct flights between Iran and the United States in order to obviate the problems facing the Iranian expatriates' visits," Torkan was quoted as saying by the semi-official Fars news agency.
