Yesterday’s The National had an interesting article about banning Emirate marriages to foreigners: “Grand Mufti of Dubai calls for curb on mixed marriages.”
I like how they have statistics for some …

Back in April the Travel Channel aired an episode of Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations shot in Maine (see Bourdain in Maine).
Now, last week, the episode went to Dubai!
Here’s a clip: …

When we lived in Dubai we were fans of the Hard Rock Cafe. It was a ten minute walk from our house and they had burgers, salads and, most …

I don’t give a hoot about golf (much to the chagrin of my in-laws, no doubt) but I did see a clip of 21-year-old Irish phenomenon Rory McIlroy, who …

This is the kind of shit that drove me batty about Dubai; check out this article from the Gulf News: “Pollution, diet blamed for male infertility in UAE.”
So you’d think …

Now that I’m liberated from my job, I can do things like take back returnables and go to Target in the middle of the day. So I did both …

A Romanian dude snuck aboard Sheikh Mohammed’s jet! Dude, if they’d landed in the Middle East we never would have heard this story: “Stowaway survives flight from Austria to …

From today’s 7Days: “A Dubai hotel for Gucci’s girl“.
Seriously.

Oh snap!
Check out this article in The Guardian: “Why Dubai’s Islamic austerity is a sham – sex is for sale in every bar.”

C’mon!
You jackasses are making it too easy to mock you and/or too difficult to defend you!
The geniuses at the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi have installed, well, the title …

Just saw this article from Dubai’s Gulf News about the famed Dubailand complex: “Dubailand project continues as it adapts to new market realities.”
Reality?
Dubai?
I’m … shocked!
Dubailand was the conglomerate of theme …

Yep, the ‘Armani Hotel Dubai’ opened this week in Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building: “Armani Debuts in Dubai.”
Wonder how tough it’ll be nowadays to fill those 160 rooms …

I could care less about Sex in the City 2, I really could.
But last summer I mentioned how they wanted to shoot the flick in Dubai, and Dubai naturally balked …

I found this website, Wordle.net that builds word clouds out of text files.
So I uploaded the 380 pages of my Newlywed in Dubai: Best of the Blog book and came …

I missd this from last Friday, the New York Times has an op-ed about Dubai and specifically the Burj Khalifa: “The Age of Concrete.”
Key quote:
From a technological standpoint, it’s profoundly …

Dubai has been in the news quite a bit lately, and it’s not good: “Airline Crew Face Jail In Dubai Over Sexy Texts” and “British Couple Appealing Dubai Kiss Conviction” …

Continuing our coverage of the Mahmoud al Madbouh assassination in Dubai (which I still find fascinating) the Dubai PD have made a new pronouncement: “Spies ordered out of Persian Gulf.”
It …

Istithmar World Capital, the private equity and alternative investment arm of Istithmar World, part of Dubai World, a Dubai government-owned company (phew) has defaulted on their $300 million mortgage for …

How did I not think of this?
How did Foreign Policy magazine make this joke and not me?
In their post “This will not end well” they make a joke about the …

Uh-oh. Retaliation begins: “Dubai: Israelis Will Be Denied UAE Entry.”
Of course, we’ve talked about Israelis and Dubai before (see Shahar Peer and Dubai).
But this is different.
The Emirates will now …