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Only in the Middle East would a woman who was raped be charged with adultery and then thrown in jail. The treatment of women in countries with Sharia law is truly despicable. Rape victims are not only victimized once, by being sexually assaulted,...
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Foreign domestic workers continue to be grossly mistreated in the Middle East. They are often abused, tortured and many wind up dead at the hands of their abusive...
made popular Mar 25 2011
‘I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move’ - Robert Louis Stevenson. Little did he know that...
made popular Feb 3 2011
ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton lobbied Arab governments on Monday to help tighten the screws on their Iranian neighbor,...
made popular Jan 11 2011
Domestic violence is a chronic, prevalent problem worldwide and something that should be strongly condemned and prosecuted, and yet women (and some men) wind up killed...
made popular Oct 19 2010
It’s a sad day when the government starts controlling who one marries. It’s bad enough that parents have so much say in arranging marriages, and that...
made popular Aug 25 2010
The United Arab Emirates said Saturday it is concerned about the German court’s decision to release an Israeli Mossad agent accused of involvement in the slaying of...
made popular Aug 17 2010
Here’s one fatwa out of the United Arab Emirates that I can actually commend. There aren’t too many that I agree with, but at least in this case they are...
made popular Aug 11 2010
The United Arab Emirates has declared BlackBerry smart phones a potential threat to national security, saying the devices operate beyond the jurisdiction of national...
made popular Aug 2 2010
The United Arab Emirates is awash with contradictions. You can never tell what bizarre news will issue forth from this gulf country, although much of it is quite...
made popular Jul 28 2010
Time runs fast. Three years ago to-date, in July 2007, a Muslim Indian-graduate, Australian hospital desk clerk fresh from visiting UK-residing relatives happened to be...
made popular Jul 2 2010
The United Arab Emirates announced Wednesday that it intends to strictly enforce United Nations sanctions against Iran - a potentially significant move, since the UAE...
made popular Jun 25 2010
People love to talk about the excesses of the western world and western society, but for true, over-the-top excess all you have to do is look no further than some of...
made popular May 14 2010
Dubai seems to be quite often headlined in the news for some rather bizarre and often silly reasons, most of which are usually related to their very archaic, stringent...
made popular May 5 2010
Iran has been one of the major champions of the Palestinian people and detractors of Israel, clamouring on about the Israeli occupation of Palestine. And yet, it seems...
made popular Apr 26 2010
Rights group Amnesty International has condemned authorities in the United Arab Emirates over the alleged torture and forced confession of 17 Indians.
They were...
made popular Apr 24 2010
I was so hoping Hissa Hilal, the brave female Saudi poet, would win the Millions Poet contest in the United Arab Emirates, but unfortunately, she only came in third. I...
made popular Apr 9 2010
LUNGIS VS BURKHA
Dr Zakhir Naik is a Lucknow based scholar of Islam who gave up his medical practice and has devoted the rest of his life to a study of...
made popular Apr 9 2010
Something that costs more isn’t always better, but neither is something cheaper. In some cases, the motto ‘you get what you pay for’ holds true....
made popular Apr 7 2010
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I wouldn’t be caught dead in Dubai. Not because I’d have a problem sticking to their strict religious laws, I don’t drink so no biggy; I would never...
made popular Apr 5 2010
I suppose the niqab and burqa could come in handy for certain women. For some, wearing the niqab probably has more to do with their physical appearance than adhering to...
made popular Feb 10 2010
An injustice has been done. All this closed door trial and judgment of UAE court means one thing and one thing only to me. If you are a member of Royal family of UAE...
made popular Jan 12 2010
There are degenerates in every religion, but from those who purport to be pious and holy it is even more reprehensible. They walk around criticizing others for their...
made popular Dec 4 2009
For more than a year, prosecutors have been cracking down on the corruption and kickbacks that thrived during the boom years in this Persian Gulf city-state. Dozens of...
made popular Sep 12 2009
India is struggling to unravel the mystery surrounding a United Arab Emirates Air Force aircraft detained in Calcutta since Sunday for carrying undeclared weapons —...
made popular Sep 10 2009
Global and regional shipping operators and financiers are to gather in Dubai in December to assess the impact of global financial market turbulence and the economic...
made popular Oct 14 2008
May be you have faced a lot of problems during your trips to and fro your home. It is something travelers used to face, however, what happened with me is something very...
made popular Oct 9 2008
At least three complete, unedited video tapes demonstrating Abu Dhabi police involvement in Shiekh Issa’s extreme torture were secreted out of the U.A.E. Check...
made popular Oct 6 2008
Burj Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is now the world’s tallest man-made structure, after reaching a record height of 688 metres, its developer real...
made popular Sep 7 2008
The Dubai property market has consistently been attractive to investors and one aspect of this is the ability to flip property. This concept simply means buying...
made popular Aug 7 2008
The Gulf dream seems to have become a death trap for Indians, with 79 of them committing suicide this year alone in the UAE due to mounting debts. Most of the victims...
made popular Jul 27 2008
An Arab resident of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) hired a professional killer from India to murder a man who harassed his wife, media reports said Thursday.
made popular Jun 20 2008
Britain has raised its terror warning for the United Arab Emirates from “general” to “high”, triggering panic among the thousands of expatriates...
made popular Jun 16 2008
The United Arab Emirates, holder of almost 10% of the world’s oil reserves, plans to pursue a peaceful nuclear energy program to offset a shortage in natural gas...
made popular Apr 21 2008
The lights go off in Dubai on March 29, 2008. It is only 60 minutes in the dark but this is a big move for a city that wants to be seen as the brightest and glitziest...
made popular Mar 29 2008
Dubai began constructing the world’s largest pre-stressed concrete drinking water reservoirs.
The three giant rectangular reservoirs, each with a capacity of 60...
made popular Mar 24 2008
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In this Friday, Feb. 13, 2009, photo, United Arab Emirates Ambassador to the U.S. Yousef al Otaiba, is seen during his interview with the Associated Press in Washington. With Capitol Hill soon to review a deal to send American nuclear power technology to.
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