Archive for November, 2009

Hey Presto! Now you see it, now you don’t

By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 12th November 2009.

I watched the children’s faces light up as the magician made one ball into two. He doubled it. Then with a sleight of hand he made the two balls go back into one. Ooh, said the children. Wow, said I. That is what it must have felt like if you had purchased an off-plan property recently. Read more »

What I want to be when I grow up

By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 6th November 2009.

Recently my daughter, who is in year two at school, asked me the following question: “Daddy, what do you want to be when you grow up?”  Read more »