Sexy Jihad

The BBC reports that the UAE emirate of Ras al-Khaimah has banned the wearing of pyjamas at work:
The Gulf emirate of Ras al-Khaimah has introduced a new dress code targeted in part at people wearing pyjamas to work.
The head of the emirate’s personnel department was quoted as saying that large numbers of civil servants […]

Iraq The Model has written an interesting take on current events in Lebanon based on his observations in Iraq:
I went to a guy who knows quite a lot about this salvation war so to speak and asked him if the texts mention anything about the timing of the war and whether it’s supposed to begin […]

In a disturbing series some guy has posted pictures he’s taken in Lebanon that show the horror of what’s happening. Quite disgusting what the world is allowing Israel to do. More info on the pictures can be found here:
Last night , 60 raids were executed all over Lebanon , from Tripoli in the north […]

Businessweek online has made a nice showcase of the cream of the current building projects in Dubai:
A building boom in the emirate has led to a whole host of chart breakers, in categories including highest apartment, biggest mall, and one of the world’s most unique resorts
Dubai has been grabbing headlines lately — for more […]

The oil drum has written an (as ever) intelligent piece on why oil production is peaking now:
This post is for the benefit of those readers whose friends or relatives just spat out their coffee over their morning New York Times in surprise that oil is starting to run out and nobody warned them before now. […]

The Independent reports that the Simpsons has now been remade for Arabic TV:
With Omar as Homer, and Badr substituted for Bart, The Simpsons is now playing on Arab television.
But in order not to risk offending an Arab audience, the characters in Al Shamshoon, as the show is now called, have modified some of their […]

The BBC reports of the first “cinema” (check article to see why I put quotes around the word) to open in Saudi Arabia for 20 years:
The authorities in Saudi Arabia have given permission for the first cinema to open there in 20 years, but the only clients will be women and children.
Foreign cartoons dubbed into […]

The Economist has an interesting article that sums up the current oil boom in the gulf:
WITH the price of oil rolling past $60 a barrel, where is the producers’ windfall falling? Some of it is going on useful things like roads and schools and paying off debts, some gets recycled, flowing back to energy-thirsty countries […]

CNN reports of yet another total waste of money being spent in Dubai:
DUBAI (Reuters) — The Gulf emirate of Dubai will build a city of life-size replicas of seven wonders of the world at an estimated cost of $1.5 billion to house offices, shops and flats, a developer has said.
The Falcon City of Wonders is […]

The Sunday Times has an intersting piece on how the late King Fahd is being mourned in Marbella. The reason for this of course being his ridiculous spending:
This is a country in mourning for a beloved ruler, a great man who gave so much to them — yes, Spain is feeling real heartache at the […]