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Adalah rally outside UAE UN office in New York

Friday, May 30th, 2008

A Jewish-Palestinian advocacy group held a thank-you rally outside the UAE’s representative office in New York on Tuesday over the country’s stand on not allowing a controversial Israeli businessman from opening a store in Dubai.

The Coalition for Justice in the Middle East (Adalah) gathered on Tuesday outside the UAE representative office in New York city [...]

UAE Mission to the UN affirm boycotting Israeli settlement-builder Lev Leviev

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Officials at the United Arab Emirates Mission to the UN affirmed their government’s commitment to boycotting the businesses of Israeli settlement-builder Lev Leviev in a meeting Tuesday afternoon with representatives from Adalah-NY and Jews Against the Occupation (JATO). Leviev is attempting to open jewelry stores in the Emirate of Dubai and to sell his diamonds [...]

Is Dubai helping ethnic cleansing in Palestine?

Monday, April 21st, 2008

The government of Dubai recently allowed a major bankroller of Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank to open at least two Jewelry stores in the Gulf emirate.

According to reliable sources in the United Arab Emirates, of which Dubai is a key member-state, Israeli billionaire and diamond magnate Lev Leviev is preparing to open two [...]

Call on Dubai to boycott Leviev’s stores over Israel settlements

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

New York human rights activists, and representatives of the West Bank Palestinian villages of Bil’in and Jayyous called on the government and the people of the United Arab Emirates to boycott the jewelry stores of Israeli billionaire and diamond magnate Lev Leviev over his companies’ construction of Israeli settlements. According to a flurry of recent [...]

Highest is everything!

Monday, February 25th, 2008

If you thought that Burj Dubai is the end of the “Arabian Dream”, you are mistaken.

The new race in the Arab World (to be particular, the Gulf region) is building the highest towers.

Few years ago, Dubai announced that they are going to spend few “Billions” of Dollars to build the highest tower in the world, [...]

Ferrari theme park in Abu Dhabi

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

Sport cars are not enough. Ferrari-branded goodies are expanding. After the sunglasses, perfumes, laptops, etc… Now it’s taking on Disneyland with its own theme park. The doors will open in 2009 in Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates.

A large slice of desert on the island of Yas will be reclaimed to [...]

Arab in Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2007

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

It’s time of the year for Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2007. With all my reservations regarding Reporters Without Borders neutrality (having doubt after knowing that France is their financial supporter, although they are an NGO!), yet, their report was always a good indicator, if not the closest to reality - at least from my experiences [...]

Dubai Floating Bridge

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

One of the biggest criticisms of Dubai has always been the traffic congestion, ask me about it as I lived there for six years.

In an effort to reduce the traffic, Dubai, opened a floating bridge which connect the two sides of the creek - Deira and Bur Dubai.

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The Floating Bridge [...]

Greenpeace seeks help in Kuwait, Qatar and UAE

Monday, February 5th, 2007

I don’t know how many of my friends around the Gulf received this alert from Greenpeace, however, here it is for the use of everyone: From: Hussein Fakih [hfakih@diala.greenpeace.org]
Date: Feb 4, 2007 10:20 PM
Subject: Greenpeace: opinion poll
To: [haitham.sabbah@gmail.com] Dear Mr Haitham Sabbah, I am an activist in Greenpeace (the international environmental independent organization). Greenpeace [...]

Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2006

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

In the fifth annual Reporters Without Borders Worldwide Press Freedom Index, in between 168 indexed countries, our beloved Arab countries makes sure to be among the worst.

Here is the list in order from “best” to “worst”:

Kuwait - 73
United Arab Emirates - 77
Mauritania - 77
Qatar - 80
Morocco - 97
Lebanon - 107
Jordan - 109
Bahrain - 111
Algeria - [...]