· July, 2009

Stories about United Arab Emirates from July, 2009

UAE: Dubai Bashing Continues

  22 July 2009

Seabee, from Dubai Thoughts, says there is yet another article following the fad for Dubai bashing. This one is in the UK Sunday Times. “Once again it's an article concentrating solely about what's wrong, with no balance, but at least it isn't the sort of inaccurate and often patently untrue...

UAE: Marwa's Mainstream Media Fail

  12 July 2009

Dubai's Fake Plastic Souks describes the coverage following the murder of Egyptian Marwa El Sherbiny in a German courthouse as a “mainstream media fail.” “So, once again, we have news that travelled around Twitter, Facebook and blogs, the social media I talk so much about, but that was not considered...

Arab World: Stories in Pictures

  10 July 2009

Armed with their cameras, two bloggers in the region took pictures of habits and things which caught their attention and commented on them. Here are their stories from Syria and Kuwait.

Dubai: The Best Blogs

  10 July 2009

Fake Plastic Souk's Alex McNabb posted a list of what he describes as Dubai's best blogs, writes Dubai Sunshine, who reposts the list.

Bahrain: A Different Version Of Events

  5 July 2009

Some days ago it was reported that a group of Emirati visitors were attacked in Bahrain; they were later visited by the Prime Minister. However Hussain Ghuloom believes the story of what happened is different to that printed in the media.

Bahrain: Fast Justice

  4 July 2009

Bahraini blogger Ali Abdulemam wonders how four Emirati citizens who were allegedly attacked by a group of Bahrainis received a rapid official response, including a visit from the Bahraini Prime Minister: “This is how fast the justice is, we don't need courts, we don't need story details.”

Dubai: Stylish Workers

  1 July 2009

Life in Dubai posts a photograph of workers in the heat, wearing straw hats and comments: “I came across this gang of labourers this morning, looking very stylish in their straw hats.”