Stories about United Arab Emirates from November, 2005
United Arab Emirates: Mute Maids
Secret Dubai say, it's a common sight across the UAE: a downtrodden-looking young maid, often Indonesian or Malaysian in appearance, pushing a child in a pram or pushchair. A hijab fully covers her hair, her eyes are lowered, and she does not look at or speak to anyone: not even...
United Arab Emirates: Flickr in UAE
Blocking Flickr in UAE is getting a lot of support and attention from all around the world. A group of bloggers created a Flickr group to collect protestant's signature.
United Arab Emirates: On Air
Secretdubai sees that there is an explosion with number of English speaking, Arabic owned TV stations that are going to be soon On Air.
United Arab Emirates: Flickr blocked, again!
Apparently, some bloggers from UAE are reporting that the dominant telecommunication company has blocked Flickr, again!
United Arab Emirates: Stone Age
secretdubai describe Sharjah as the “Stone Age” emirate. Why? Two women were abducted and raped by fake taxi drivers and complain to police. What did Sharjah police do? Charge the women with being “in privacy with a man.”