Finally, the employee discovered that there were no schools which provided
schooling in English – or even French. Arabic was the national language. With small
children, she had assumed there would be plenty of English-speaking nannies and
teachers. As for her husband, who had planned to take leave of absence from
his job, it transpired that the government was not granting entry visas for anyone
other than direct employees working for organisations that had contracted with
the government.