Twibber Stories

We Lebanese people were grieving and thinking why did this terrible thing happen and how can we help our people after the explosion of July 4th that rocked the city of Beirut and our country Lebanon.

What a crazy corona summer!! The pandemic broke out just when my family was happily on vacation. Quite a shock when we learned we could not travel back to our home in Dubai as borders were closed overnight.

We moved to Abu Dhabi 5 years ago, because my husband, an engineer, was transferred to here. The capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a cool place to live, very family friendly - and not as crazy busy and glitzy as our “sister” Dubai…

For many years I have been doing business with the Middle East, so I know a lot of people from Lebanon. How big the shock was to learn about the destruction of the capitol Beirut by the explosion in the harbor: 300,000 lost their homes, so…

Originally the family (me, my husband and our two kids) wanted to travel somewhere, but with the Covid-19 restrictions, all our plans were cancelled. Then we thought, why don't we visit my sister at the Baltic sea, where she has for years spent her summer holidays…

Usually I travel a lot for work - usually! But the coronavirus had locked us down for three months. So I couldn't wait to fly with my family from our home in the Gulf region to Berlin, Germany.

The world needs people like Geetha! Our community in the desert, a quick ride from glitzy Dubai, has parks, playgrounds, lots of families – and a WhatsApp group of a few hundred neighbors.

A few weeks ago my friend Marco called me, saying he recently bought 126 show drones for his company A & O. They have small lights, and Marco can program them to "paint" pictures in the dark sky.