We have a TigerSat box with nearly 1200 channels available. A good half of those channels are either scrambled or "test", but that still leaves about 600. We have channels from Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Sudan, Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey, Dubai ... the one thing they almost all have in common (apart from a staggeringly large number of Christian channels) is that of course they are not in English. We have four news channels in English (Al Jazeera, BBC, France24 and CNN) and one channel showing movies from the 1980s and 1990s with Arabic subtitles. Sleepless in Seattle, anyone?
The local channels are intriguing though, even if I don't understand what they're saying. One of the sports channels was showing competitive falconry:
And then there's the camel festival:
This festival is clearly a huge deal. News headlines about the event include "Vets pull off life-saving C-section on stricken camel at
prestigious Saudi festival" (arabnews.com) and (my favourite) "The
International Longest Famous Event King Abdulaziz Camel Festival 2018 Kicks Off
with Prizes for Camel Beauty Reaching Over 30 Million Dollars" (BusinessWire.com).
Classic:-) By the way, many of us at work are looking forward to seeing a photo of Mark, in shorts and jandals, riding a camel. Camel race optional. As Mark’s better half (and ‘current wife’), we leave that in your capable hands. Just in case he’d purposefully forgotten... :-)
ReplyDeleteJandals we can do, and possibly shorts when the weather warms up. But you're more likely to see a photo of Mark smoking a Camel than riding one (unless I seriously improve my Photoshop skills).
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