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The following article was published on Khaleej Times, 10th Sept.
Dubai - Stretching its six intertwining building components [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Also tagged Boycott, Lev Leviev, SettlerThe 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 [...]
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 [...]
Also tagged Boycott, Dubai, Israel, Leviev, Palestine, Settlements, United-Arab-EmiratesSport 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 [...]
Also tagged Abu Dhabi, F1, Ferrari, parkOne 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 [...]
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 have recently discovered that [...]
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 - [...]
This is a cross-posting. It was initially published at Global Voices in my (semi)-weekly translation post.
The following is an abbreviated translation from some of the Arabic-language blogsphere.
This week, johacom was happy to find some cartoons by Arab cartoonist that depict some Official Arab Leaders. He says:
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Also tagged Arabisc, Cartoon, Human Rights, Libya, Oman, SaudiFirst, here is a racist cartoon:
Decpite that the United Arab Emirates said it was a close ally of the US in its war on terrorism, the US senators, Hillary Clinton and Robert Menendez opposed a UAE firm's takeover of a company that operates several American ports over security concerns. The two US Democratic senators have [...]
Also tagged Arab, Bleeding Edge, Failures, Terrorism, USAFew days ago, the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah has announced the creation of RAK Airways, the UAE's fourth national carrier which will start operations by the end of 2006. I thought, what the heck? Four carriers in UAE, what do they need all that for? And RAK… how many traveler do they actually have [...]
Also tagged RAK, Space, SpaceportNot to be missing to follow the steps of UAE, Saudi blocked Flickr again. I just can't get what stupid policy is this to block it one day and then open it later and then block it again. What is the benefit of doing such a thing? Is it a game some employees in these [...]
Also tagged Censorship, SaudiA tremor was felt also in the neighbouring United Arab Emirates, prompting many people to evacuate buildings.
Witnesses in high-rise buildings said they felt the ground shaking beneath them for about a minute. Many residents evacuated their buildings and waited on the streets.
Quake of 6.1 magnitude,
hit some 58 km (36 miles) southwest of Bandar Abbas at [...]
Flickr is blocked again in UAE? I just heard that from SC. This is also confirmed here and here.
What the heck is all this about? Since I lived in UAE for few years, I know that Etisalat have this sort of stupid unexplained actions.
But anyway, may this slow down the UAE spam on Flickr [...]
