BBC: Hospitality In a Suspicious World
January 27, 2008 by Adnan
Sallam alaykum.
From the BBC News website.
Working as a Westerner in the Muslim world has been complicated by the conflicts of recent years but BBC correspondent Kate Clark who has worked in Iraq, Afghanistan and Gaza still finds delight in the hospitality and kindness of strangers.
The taxi driver was calling me back. It was late at night in Irbil, and there was a problem with the fare.
Sometimes it is the taxi driver who wants to keep down the fare
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We had spent the half hour journey chatting. He told me he was struggling to bring up a young family on a low income and with soaring inflation.
“Rent,” he said, “had gone up five-fold and petrol prices 20-fold since 2003.”
So I paid him a bit extra. He called me back to argue over the money because he thought I had paid him too much.
