Iraqis in the United Arab Emirates

After the Anglo-American invasion to Iraq, Iraqis began to move to other countries like Jordan, Syria, Qatar, Sweden, Denmark, and of course United Arab Emirates which gave and still gives many facilities to the Iraqis than other countries in the region.
Because of that number of Iraqis is increasing day after day in the U.A.E., and of course they have now Iraqi restaurants, cafes, companies, etc.
Mohammed Irfan, a student of bachelor degree in business administration Al- Ghurair University says that: U.A.E. people are good and still have the Arabic and Islamic morals and traditions; they are good welcoming people, but the problems is that the number of Iraqis leaving Iraq is huge and one of the few countries offer visas to us is the UAE, so sometimes our people find it difficult to get a visit visa to UAE"
This is one of the problems most of the Iraqis talks are all about, but this problem is the major one, we still have other problems as we will see now:
Ahmed Khalid, a high school graduate came to UAE to find a job, he said:" I already got the job but still you will find things that is really irritating for instance I'm Iraqi and working as a salesman and my salary is 2,500 while at the same time another Iraqi working in the same position but the only thing is that he has a passport of a western country and his salary because of this reason is double that of mine, you just feel injustice no more no less".
People are different in their cultural values and traditions so that they tend to form their own communities inside multicultural society as that of the U.A.E., Iraqis in the U.A.E. as other nationalities found Iraqi restaurants and cafés in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, and in other emirates as well, they spend the evenings in the cafés playing Dominos and Backgammon listening to Iraqi music sometimes watching the news in case there was something new or extraordinary.
Ali Hussein, a business man came from Iraq in 2004 has a contracting company said:" these cafés came to life after 2004 because number of Iraqis is growing bigger and bigger, we spend the evenings here in the café to meet with Iraqis and chit chat with them knowing each other and to reduce the feeling of home sickness which is killing us, you should tell people how big is our love to our country, no body will know that".
There are Iraqi students in U.A.E. also, they are in different levels of education lets see what they feel towards study in U.A.E.:
Mohammed Farook, a ninth grade student in Al-Doha Highschool in Sharjah said: "its ok here but I think in Iraq it was more serious than here, and the exmas were more difficult"
At the end of my trip to different Iraqi places I've got the feeling that the most serious and the biggest problems Iraqis are suffering form is that the are not like any other nationalities, they know that this is the place they should settle in for a long time because they know they have no country to go back to, and everytime they find a hope, next day the situation got worse and worse.