Man City Success Provides a Diversionary Blueprint
JAMES DORSEY: Soccer is being used as a tool to improve tarnished images, divert attention from grievances and manipulate national emotions.…
UAE Economy Remains Arab World Showcase
The oil price has been defying gravity for some time and you can see the dollar and oil being, if anything even more of a safe haven.…
Who’s ‘Kidon’ Who? Mossad Is, Ah, Iranian?!
ALEXANDER MCNABB: A movie being made about the assassination of Mahmoud Al Mabhouh plays fast and loose with the truth. …
Dubai Real Estate Showing Sparks of Life
Dubai was also one of the first countries to move into a real estate crisis, so it could be a barometre for the wider region.…
GCC Media and the Language of Racism
CHRISTINA HEBERT: “Aren’t they people too?” He was a man. She was a woman. Their lives mattered. Let’s show that they did. …
Most Admired: UAE, Turkey Top Arab Youth Survey
FRANCIS MATTHEW: This regional popularity is an asset and the UAE should make every effort to nurture the conditions that built this reputation.…
The Simple, Crispy Joy of the Kerala Poppadom
ALEXANDER MCNABB: We all have our 'guilty pleasures' when it comes to food. Mine's the Kerala poppadum …
Dubai Debt Prison Hunger Strikes
VIDEO, AL JAZEERA: In Dubai a group of jailed foreign businessmen imprisoned for issuing bounced cheques engage in a hunger strike.…
“New Yea Cee Having”: A Very Good Thing Indeed
ALEXANDER MCNABB: It's definitely been worth the pain and disruption as Summer arrives with a bang in the UAE…
Dubai Airport Queues, Bye-Bye! Scan To Rescue
ALEXANDER MCNABB: More high tech at Dubai Airport should lead to less furrowed brows in the Immigration Hall. …
