· October, 2005

Stories about United Arab Emirates from October, 2005

United Arab Emirates: Milton Keynes @ Dubai

26 October 2005

Feed Your Head of Dubai Blog says that he is the only one who sees the similarity between Dubai and Milton Keynes. After all, he believes that Dubai for most people is a hotel. Looks shiny and nice on the surface but is ultimately soulless and if you look carefully...

United Arab Emirates: After Iftar, Sniftar

26 October 2005

Keefieboy describing pubs at Dubai: “Iftar is the breaking of the fast after sundown during Ramadan. Sniftar is a poetic misspelling of ‘snifter’ to make it rhyme with iftar.”

United Arab Emirates: Spinsterhood

  19 October 2005

Emirati says that spinsterhood is a major topic of discussion in the Emirates. The Phenomena of unmarried young women, who cannot get married because other Emarati guys have married foreigners, leaving them in a dire position which is very widespread.

United Arab Emirates: Inflation

  14 October 2005

Keefieboy from Adventures in Dubai writes that the UAE is suffering from serious inflation these days, and it has just been announced that fees for several Government services will be increased soon.