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It must be another Tom Clancy novel. Or maybe not.
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Against All Enemies is the second successive Clancy military-espionage-terrorism thriller written with a co-author, and the blogosphere resounds with speculation that the former insurance broker didn't even proof the galleys.
Indeed, the detail is numbing and not always believable. A coat that prevents a bullet from even leaving an impact? A former US Navy Seal running at his foes and firing a pistol from each hand? Add wooden dialogue and a leaden plot, and it's easy to think that Clancy farmed out the work to create a character ready-made for films.
That hero is Max Moore, who takes on an unholy alliance between the Taliban and a Mexican drug cartel. He's burdened with a guilty conscience, but the reasons are revealed, irritatingly, only in flashback dribs and drabs every 50 pages or so. Put it this way: he's no Jack Ryan, though at novel's end he seems destined to join the counter- terrorism sphere of Clancy's former US president.
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Prop idols
Girls full-contact rugby may be in its infancy in the Middle East, but there are already a number of role models for players to look up to.
Sophie Shams (Dubai Exiles mini, England sevens international)
An Emirati student who is blazing a trail in rugby. She first learnt the game at Dubai Exiles and captained her JESS Primary school team. After going to study geophysics at university in the UK, she scored a sensational try in a cup final at Twickenham. She has played for England sevens, and is now contracted to top Premiership club Saracens.
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Seren Gough-Walters (Sharjah Wanderers mini, Wales rugby league international)
Few players anywhere will have taken a more circuitous route to playing rugby on Sky Sports. Gough-Walters was born in Al Wasl Hospital in Dubai, raised in Sharjah, did not take up rugby seriously till she was 15, has a master’s in global governance and ethics, and once worked as an immigration officer at the British Embassy in Abu Dhabi. In the summer of 2021 she played for Wales against England in rugby league, in a match that was broadcast live on TV.
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Erin King (Dubai Hurricanes mini, Ireland sevens international)
Aged five, Australia-born King went to Dubai Hurricanes training at The Sevens with her brothers. She immediately struck up a deep affection for rugby. She returned to the city at the end of last year to play at the Dubai Rugby Sevens in the colours of Ireland in the Women’s World Series tournament on Pitch 1.
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We Weren’t Supposed to Survive But We Did
We weren’t supposed to survive but we did.
We weren’t supposed to remember but we did.
We weren’t supposed to write but we did.
We weren’t supposed to fight but we did.
We weren’t supposed to organise but we did.
We weren’t supposed to rap but we did.
We weren’t supposed to find allies but we did.
We weren’t supposed to grow communities but we did.
We weren’t supposed to return but WE ARE.
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Company Profile
Name: Thndr
Started: 2019
Co-founders: Ahmad Hammouda and Seif Amr
Sector: FinTech
Headquarters: Egypt
UAE base: Hub71, Abu Dhabi
Current number of staff: More than 150
Funds raised: $22 million
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