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The expatriate life: Making money but feeling like a visitor

By Dina Medland

Published: November 24 2010 15:38 | Last updated: November 24 2010 15:38

In conversations with British expatriates in the Middle East one piece of advice recurs: read Don’t they know it’s Friday? by former British soldier and diplomat Jeremy Williams.

The title refers to the cries of the author’s wife as he received phone calls throughout “non-working” Fridays when he was British Defence Attache to the UAE and Bahrain.

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