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Between Departures: On Staying

Between Departures: On Staying

Shorua, Oloi

Paperback

Adventurers & ExplorersBiographies General

ISBN13: 9798199302272
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 30 2026
Pages: 46
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.11 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Dubai is a city built for arriving and leaving. Almost no one is from here. Almost everyone has a reason to go.

This is a book about the people who stayed anyway.

When Oloi Shorua arrived in Dubai in October 2024, he came with two large bags, a resident visa, and the particular uncertainty of someone building something from the beginning. What followed was not the Dubai of photographs - not the towers and the spectacle and the curated glamour - but the Dubai that exists between all of that. A hotel suite in Barsha Heights. The same breakfast every morning for two years. A driver who waited outside driving school and came back when the money was difficult. A bar that felt like home until, on the first of April, it closed.

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