One Big Construction Site (A Dubai Blog)

TRA in 2009 (on the topic of Skype):
"I don't see the TRA being anti-consumer," he said. "We opened up the market. We are trying to protect consumers. The TRA is a government agency. We have wider issues to worry about. Consumers only have their own concern to worry about." (source: http...

MINNEAPOLIS — An American man who works in the United Arab Emirates has been held in a maximum-security prison for months after posting a parody video about youth culture in Dubai, a rights group and family attorney said Wednesday.
Shezanne Cassim, 29, of Woodbury, Minn., was arrested in April and charged with violating a 2012 cybercrimes law that boosts penalties for allegedly challenging authorities, attorney Susan Burns said. He was moved to a maximum security prison in Abu...

I've been putting off getting a license since I turned 18; I simply haven't had the time or haven't had a visa or I was living in another country that had public transportation. If I was smart and had the ability to predict the future I would have gotten...

The Bastikiya area near the creek is such a great area to visit; I go their often. I used to go down by the creek when I was really young to the Fatafeet café which had shisha, barbecued corn (mmmm) and at one stage the world's largest shawarma stand...