I am not the type to ever take interest in what socialite Paris Hilton has to say, but when it comes to the Middle East my ears are always open. The Hilton hotel...

I felt aghast to read that in Sharjah a foreigner man & women were declared of having an affair & were sent to jail only on being found alone in a room...

Paris Hilton has had a lot of controversies in America and now she is heading toward the United Arab Emirates for the second season of her show My BFF. According to...

His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan called the top of the market by selling all 1.3bn of his Barclays shares, leaving him with just £1.25bn of hybrid debt...

The debate was on regarding what to do about Apostates at the International Islamic Fiqh Conference in Sharjah. To behead or not to behead, that was the question at...

The Emirates will investigate a member of its ruling family over videotapes showing the sheik torturing another man, the country’s official news agency reported.

Amid complaints among locals about loud music, prostitution, road accidents, late night fighting and that the emirate was “morally denigrating;” the tiny...

Even though Dubai’s rule Emir Maktoum has previously stated that the worst if over for the emirate, analysts are predicting that Dubai’s real estate market...

An Emirati newspaper says Dubai’s deputy police chief has denied a report that pirates have laundered their ransom money through banks in the Gulf city-state.

The United Arab Emirates is wise to the ways of Washington.

One of the suspects in the assassination of a former Lebanese prime minister has been arrested in Dubai, an Arab diplomat said.

Ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra urges his supporters to be a part of reconciliation talks with the Thai government.

In this Gulf city-state, two things have long been untouchable: business interests and the ruling family. However, an attempt to sue a member of the family over an...

It is well-known, at least outside the Arab world, that all the [former] glamor of Dubai is built on the backs of abused Asian migrant workers. These workers, mostly...

Gone are the days of seemingly endless boom in Dubai as credit has dried up. Today, Dubai sits on $50 billion of debt, had to seek a $10 billion loan from the far...

Is is Abu Dhabi not Dubai that is heart of the United Arab Emirates. It is the wealthiest of all the seven emirates and the capital city. Dubai sits on $50 billion of...

The United Arab Emirates is officially not much more than a base for Western armies in the Middle East. The confederation of seven emirates already is home to several...

Yesterday I titled a post “Is Dubai Becoming The Next Saudi Arabia?” The post concerned the soon-to-be legally enforced code of conduct in Duabi whose...

After the now famous case of the deported British couple after they had sex on a public beach, Dubai has officially issued a code of conduct for its 1 million, more or...

Rights groups say an Iranian blogger convicted of insulting the country’s ruling clerics has died in Tehran’s main prison.