Following an example for the living ideas and spirit of Astronomers Without Borders. As Mike Simmons (President of AWB) commented in his e-mail: "This is what AWB is all about !"

Transboundary friendship & global sharing of enthusiasm and passion bursting all limits.

In the following example not only enthusiasm was shared across all borders but astronomical equipment too ;-)

For Azhy Hasan (National AWB-Coordinator for Iraq/Kurdistan) a dedicated amateur astronomer, living in the Kurdish area of Iraq, a dream has become true !
Nazar Sallam (National AWB-coordinator for United Arab Emirates) has big-hearted fulfilled his wishes !
Nazar Sallam is an extremely active amateur astronomer. He has designed some mobile astronomical observatories and he is travelling around his country to show the wonders of our universe to his local people. He is an big idol for my own little Astrotrailer-project (http://www.sternwarte.at/LAG-AWB/astrotrailer/). He is very experienced using mobile observatories for astronomical public outreach work and I am already in contact with him, concerning this. For the future I am making plans for a trip with my Astrotrailer to countries of  Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and someday I hope to meet him face to face.