In one of the weekend newspapers, Ha'Shavua B'Yerushalayim, there was an interesting exclusive article. The article described how the mayor of Bnei Brak, Yaakov Asher, recently went to Japan to testify as a character witness on behalf of the boys in jail for unwittingly smuggling drugs into the coun...

Filed under: Auctions, Art Once the undisputed land of conspicuous wealth and consumption, the United Arab Emirates is being squeezed by a large drop in oil prices. It's a shame this comes after the region's addiction to art has become fully entrenched. Sotheby's is planning its first contemporary a...

i flew from kabul here to dubai yesterday... the flight departure from kabul was delayed and the aircraft we were to have departed on was finally switched after we stood on the ramp in a cold wind waiting to board for nearly an hour, freezing our respective tushies off... when we arrived in dubai, t...

Image via Wikipedia Like I have said in my previous posts, you can live in Dubai if you can find a job in Dubai. But this part of finding a job in Dubai is the main problem for most people. Specially under current economic circumstances it might seem impossible to find a job in Dubai, but the truth ...

Something’s really shitty is happening when one player from Israel gets bumped at a tennis tournament and another is allowed to play. Such is the case at the annual Dubai Tennis Championships when Israeli female tennis star Shahar Peer was denied a visa to play there, while her male colleague,...

(-Picture of Dubai by Qba from Poland via Flickr) In most Middle Eastern Muslim dominated countries, Christians are persecuted and seldom allowed to build new churches or even remodel the ancient ones they do have. However, in Dubai of the United Arab Emirates, the government has given land and favo...

Author Margaret Atwood has pulled out of the debut Dubai literary festival because of the festival's treatment of British author Geraldine Bedell, who was banned from the festival for having a gay character in her novel. Now other authors are threatening to boycott the festival. The bestselling chil...

Hoezo geen samensmelting van culturen mogelijk? In de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten is een variant van Las Vegas uit de grond gestampt, met dat verschil dat je geen casino in Dubai zal aantreffen. Terwijl we onze mond vol hebben over de woekering van uitheemse culturen op eigen grondgebied, doen bedr...

The construction boom town of Dubai, where 200 fantastically tall skyscrapers have been started in the last five years, is emptying out of foreigners who fear being sent to debtors prison for defaulting on their home loans. With Dubai’s economy in free fall, newspapers have reported that more than...

The denial of a visa to Shahar Peer to enable her to play tennis in Dubai is causing uproar in many quarters, though why it should come as a surprise is hard to fathom. The United Arab Emirates has had an all-encompassing ban on Israelis entering its territory for years, and even goes so far as to p...