Rachel Had to Guess Where This Mosque Is. Syrian and Lebanese Arabic Conversation
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Another round of the photo game with Rachel. I show her a photo, she tells me what she sees, and then she guesses where and when I took it.
This one is a huge white mosque with four minarets and a lot of domes, palm trees and pink, yellow and white flowers in front, and a clear sky. She guessed midday. It wasn't, the sun was going down. She guessed Saudi Arabia, which was close. Then she got the country, and then the city.
It's the Sheikh Zayed Mosque in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE, and one of the biggest mosques in the world. I took the photo at sunset on the last day of Ramadan in 2022, and right after it the Eid cannon fired.
Then I asked her whether she'd like to visit. She'd pick Dubai, because there's more going on, even though she thinks Abu Dhabi might be the more beautiful of the two. If you want calm, go to Abu Dhabi. If you want people and noise, go to Dubai.
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