A una prima lettura non sembrerebbe una notizia degna di nota, anzi non sembrerebbe proprio una notizia il fatto che la ventisettenne di Dubai Farah Saeed, al termine di un corso di formazione per hostess della durata di otto settimane, sia entrata a far parte dello staff della compagnia aerea Etihad, insegna emiratense nata nel 2003.
E invece Farah, che ha effettuato il suo primo volo nella tratta fra Londra e Istanbul la seconda settimana di ottobre, ha ritrovato il proprio volto mediorientale, truccato a regolare d’arte in occasione del debutto, su svariati organi di stampa del Golfo e ora sta facendo il giro del mondo via web.
Perché prima di lei, fra tre mila hostess e steward della compagnia the flag had never been a citizen of the Emirates, and yet a hundred nationalities are represented. Discounted
the enthusiasm of pioneers, who feels that she is almost a diplomatic role: "I intend to share culture and hospitality of the Emirates with people as possible and more possible places in the world." A project supported by the family, "Who around me encouraged me to become the first UAE nationals to embark on this career."
The new arrival, have clarified the vertices of Etihad (literally the Union, in reference to the Union of Arab Emirates, ed), will not feel alone because emiratensi abound, however, between students and professional pilots. Word of the airline's CEO, James Hogan, is clearly not a native of Dubai.
At this point you reopen the debate on the social fabric of some emirates of the Arabian Peninsula, not necessarily the seven Union, but also Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, inhabited by a few hundreds of thousands of indigenous peoples and millions of emigrants employment purposes.
Some numbers. Of the approximately three million and 100 thousand inhabitants of Kuwait are from the spot just 960 000. 672 000 people living in Bahrain, of which only 64% is indigenous. In Qatar, a half million inhabitants, three quarters have a temporary work permit. In the United
Arabs the disproportion is even more striking: about eight million inhabitants, not more than 20% were born locally. All others are "expat" expatriates. Generalizing
, sultanates in the Arab immigration is mostly ethnic Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Filipino, Iranian regarding construction and restoration. The western one is a minority and occupies top positions in the Middle East headquarters of major international networks. The hostess
Farah Saeed is the symbol of a strategy, the so-called "emiratizzazione" staff from Abu Dhabi inaugurated ten years ago and so far has proved very fruitful. On several occasions the government has attempted to stimulate the recruitment of local ordinances to blows, but especially in the private sector there was no way: to quote a law rejected in the spring of 2009 to individuals operating in the UAE has been ordered to take on administrative tasks and human resources, local staff.
A joint effort of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Labor to proceed to the professional sectors but is shipwrecked after a while, partly because of the economic crisis in the Emirates: how to say, in the second half of 2009, many international companies based in Dubai have closed or reduced their seats. Better not to annoy those that remain.
Nationals emiratensi, therefore, has not been another tool to compete with foreign study. The possibilities have emerged: 22.7% of the federal budget in 2010, about 9.9 billion dirhams (1.91 billion €) was invested in education, with scholarships for Arab students, universities and construction of graduate schools in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah, partnerships with university centers of the world.
Only a detail worth mentioning: the recruitment of foreign teachers to give authority to the young university. Again.
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