Amedi

Today i traveled to Amedi and back to Hewler. As i took regular cab i lost a couple of kilos of weight in the heat. But From Duhok to Amedi i had some great company, two girls and a guy that were very interested in our project. We talked about that there is lack of activity for youth in Amedi. Many youth also move out from the city to Duhok and Hewler for work or for education.

This is one of the many churches in Hewler. This one is in Ankawa that is the christian district of Hewler. It is also one of the most nice areas with nice people. (Picture from the day before)






Amedi, the very special town on top of a big mountain hill. Since all space is occupied in the town it can not grow any more. This is also because of the lack of high buildings here.

An incredible nice park in Amedi.

Barzan travel and Hewler bomb

Yesterway it was a terrorist attack in Hewler. It led to 12 persons death and 70 injured. It will also cause severe damage to the democratic work and the safety work that has been built up in the area. but hopefully it will work as a ringing bell to never stop the decmoratic work and to always be aware of the safety and to develop it.

Yesterday our staff had a work travel to Barzani area amongst them Mergasur, Sherwan and Piran. We left hewler 6 in the morning so we were not there during the terrorist attack. However we got aware of it immediately but could not interrupt our plans.




I will update the blog with picture from yesterdays Barzan travel later on today. But here is a picture i took today on the Interior Ministry building. A big misstake in the planning was to have the Asaish (secret service) and the Interior Ministry located beside each other and located on a big comon road in the middle in the city.

The reconstruction work has already begun as you can see on the road. The situation is calm and there are less peopole outside, today in Hewler.

Dubai travel

We, me and a colleague landed in Dubai 1 o clock in the night. He is familiar with Dubai but for me it was my first visit. If i knew what i will experience i would not have travelled as if it was voluntarily.

Dubai is a country that is continually changing. Skyscrapers are built intensively and nothing is like the other day like. You will for sure get confused by the magnitude of Dubai and the luxury.

Anyway we took a cab to find an affordable hotel. It was late so we had to check in at Golden Sands 3. The days that came we had many business meetings to check out with the suppliers, dealer and retailers for the equipments we want. It turned out to be a hard match trying to do all this in this short time. The biggest obstacle was the transportation, though we had a rental car all our travel. IT could take several hours some times in rush hour to get from a place to another place. And it is rush hour all the time because it is Dubai so you can imagine trying to do a lot in a day but get stuck in traffic more than half the day.

Anyway the work was a success. We will maybe need to travel to Dubai in 4 weeks again before delivery of our equipment. It was different equipment for radio stations of course, music studios, computers, other high tech and media equipment and complete technology labs. I can say this without revealing anything about our projects.

Dubai is a emirate a city that is unbelievable. You see gigantic buildings and masterworks right in what that was an desert and people from all over the world. It is just amazing. Sometimes when there are road constructions and they dig up holes you get reminded that everything is built up on desert.

It has been able to build Dubai thanks to foreign expertise and workers. The Sheiks in Dubai are not late in appointing this and give special credit to the Indians.

It was of course a reality check and a punch in the face to see this reality after having been working in South Kurdistan 7 months.

Our first and second night was spent here.

Sweden taking a part of this cake of course like they sold material to Saddam Hussein during the war and genocide against the Kurds. IKEA




This is a poor House that you never see in Dubai but you see it here. Mostly Indian and Pakistanis are living here and often they are 10-15 persons living in one room. It is incredible expensive with accommodation in Dubai but all the rest it cheap, at least if you see the prices internationally. Hotels and accommodation is expensive but food is cheap. There are many workers here so the service is really great if not excellent. There are all possible service at affordable price which is good for the forging workers and the inhabitants and the professionals.

Of course

This is outside our next hotel. Not as glamorous but what do you not do for a good project economy. Check out the dudes...

Construction everywhere, ... higher and higher.

Easy traffic

The skiing hall in Dubai maybe you have seen it on discovery channel some late night.

Burj Arab

Hewler restaurant, oh no! Not here also, help somebody...

IT looks like this at the entrance of the offices and there are countless of the, . It assumes you have a pretty good check on the market.




Qendil building material company in the middle of the industry area. Probably he is Kurd because Qendil is an amazing Kurdish mountain chain




Some babes barbecuing at the beach. This is the national dress for Women in United Arab Emirate (UAE). Foreign men are forbidden to wear the dress. But for women it is OK. These women were Indians because their families were sitting besides them.




It was Friday and our last day of 6 days. It is forbidden to work on Fridays and we had to accept this of course, since it is closed everywhere. So we took a look at the beach. It was not more than just a look because it was red flag and it was forbidden to swim. Very irritating but obviously necessary because at least a guy drowned this day.




The beach House in the beach garden, not so bad.

Here are some dudes chilling in Shorijja that is a nearbying emirate, city.

One of the respected Sheiks checking out the view.

Here is the temporarily harbour for the smuggle boats to Iran and some other places.

The famous palms they are mostly ready. I think there are three of them.

The world islands. Only a island is started to be built.

Hewler park from air.

Special guest in Kurdistan

Last days Fredrik Malm has been with us. He is collecting information for a special purpose and he will be here for 9 days so it is a couple of days left. So he is with us for this purpose. We visited the International Hewler Book Fair. There were a great collection of books from best publishers in the world. I was only interesten in the English literature. The books was most in the subject of technology and medical science. It was an impressing width of the books and you could find books in all specialized subjects regarding technology ecpecially.

I bought a couple of books for work and one in RF electronics to keep my self updated.

Mr Fredrik Malm

Hewler International Book-Fair

Antique shop in Hewler with a great collection of cultural heritage. Everything is for sale unfortunately.

There was a collction of garbage and arabic crap along with great kurdish stuff.