· June, 2006

Stories about United Arab Emirates from June, 2006

United Arab Emirates: Modhesh

  27 June 2006

Dubai Summer Surprises is back, and dubaiwalla has photos of its mascot, Modhesh, but Dubai Sunshine thinks that Modhesh-mania is going a teeny weeny little bit overboard.

United Arab Emirates: Dubai power outage

  19 June 2006

Dubai has power outage, and one of the reasons given was exceeding the allotted supply. Seabee wonders: “People exceeding their allotted supply? Maybe I'm the only one who didn't know that there's an ‘allotted supply’. Or is it a language problem in the reporting?“

Arabisc: The Arabic Bloggers Ken, Media, Anti-Blogging and the World Cup

  16 June 2006

Blogging nightmare… Starting with hot news this week, it looks that the Egyptian blogsphere is going to have more hard time in the near future. Following Aljazeera's one hour TV documentary (Arabic) about blogging and its role in the political scene in the Egyptian street, one of the oldest, biggest...

United Arab Enirates: A 27 bucks to beat your wife

  15 June 2006

The secretdubai say it is great and glorious day for wifebeaters throughout the UAE after hearing the Federal Supreme Court confirming a lower court verdict imposing a Dh 100 (US$ 27) fine on a husband found guilty of assaulting his wife.

United Arab Emirates: Photography in Dubai

  13 June 2006

Photography in the UAE is always a problem; you have to be respectful to other people given the culture and privacy enjoyed by most people in the UAE. Anyone with enough ignorance can land themselves in trouble quite easily by not asking permission, but even when you HAVE the permission,...

United Arab Emirates: Censorship, again!

  12 June 2006

UAE's ISP has blocked UAE community Blog. It's not clear yet what is the reason. A blogger who goes by the name war_in_iran said that: “They maybe the community was having a bad effect “culturally” on the the innocent youth of this great country.”

United Arab Emirates: Customer Service

1 June 2006

Keefieboy describing the customer service policy of the major telecommunication company in UAE: We're only a phone company and ISP, but we behave like a totalitarian dictator. We charge enormous fees for our services. We only give you half the Internet and criminalise access to the other half. We lie...