Category: TRAVEL

How to survive a language barrier when travelling

April 25, 2019July 31, 2019 Riza Khamal

Excited is an understatement of what I felt when my husband mentioned to me the possibility of travelling with him. But the country we were possibly going to, he said, was Denmark. That put me on second thought. I don’t know people close to me in Denmark, that means “fun” is already out of the…

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Qatar Airways did not allow me to pray

May 4, 2017July 31, 2019 Riza Khamal

“We cannot allow you to pray. There is no designated space for prayer.” These shocking phrases are still reverberating in my head. “I just need a small space to pray. It will only take few minutes,” I reasoned to the flight attendants I approached during the flight. I was on board Qatar Airways’s flight no.…

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Riza Khamal

A freelance writer, who is also a virtual assistant offering services in writing, social media management and translation. This mother of 4 is a former journalist and professor. Riza is often mistaken as an oppressed woman, but this is an assumption she denies.
She believes that it takes a strong woman, confident of herself and her belief to stand out from the rest.