UAE Community Blog

Powers that be have endorsed an open political debate in Dubai, but some are cautious. The Washington Post has the story .

A close copy of an ancient Arabian market has been poured into a 50,000-square-feet hole off Shaikh Rashid Road in Dubai. The underground sh...

Some very sad news: one of Oman's best known bloggers, Sleepless in Muscat , has died at the age of 29. You can read more at Oman Comm...

I wouldn't want to live in it, and I don't for a moment believe it will end up looking anything like this if indeed it is ever built...

Apparently there was a bomb of some sort at the nightclub Eleganté early this morning (22/6) around 2.30 AM. A mate of mine went there with ...

An excerpt from last week's US State Department's worldwide warning to American citizens abroad (sorry for the length -- having said...

It has been brought to my attention that the website http://blog.dirhambrokers.com/ has made a carbon copy of the content on this website, ...

According to Gulf News, the recent raised terror alert was caused by a conversation between two men in a bar... "One drunk man told the...

So finally livejournal has been blocked (again) in the UAE (thanks to anon for tip) A few weeks back I wrote a post on the website www.vime...

Just a quick reminder for those who don't know about the secret , the little free newsletter I publish, or for those who signed up ages ...

AP As a trusted adviser to a member of United Arab Emirates royal family, Texas businessman Bassam Nabulsi says he safeguarded the sheik...

The BBC reports that, world-wide, blogger arrests tripled between 2006 and 2007. The arrests are concentrated in three countries - China, E...

So says the BBC this morning : British nationals in the United Arab Emirates have been warned there is now a high risk of a terror attack t...

"The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is extremely concerned that two popular talk programs transmitted to Pakistan from D...

Bonds are not new to the financial scene in Dubai, only now they’re starting to become popular. More than AED 28 bil worth of bonds were iss...