Teachers at Sweihan, part of the Technical Studies Institute, colleagues of Aidan O'Rourke

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I took this photo in June 1994, two months after our employers ECS Ltd had stopped paying our salaries due to a dispute with their client the UAE Military, for whom we were working as teachers. I expected that many teachers would soon leave, so I took the photo for posterity. I am still in touch with a few of them.

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