Sharjah's inland town of Dhaid has an annual date festival. Who knew? We were wending (actually, waddling or wobbling might be more ...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I don't quite remember why, but I looked up the place I live on Wikipedia a while ago. Al Heera is a s...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Gosh, the UAE is 43! The UAE celebrates its 43rd National Day tomorrow, the ...

I wrote in the summer about the 'passing' of the Hatta/Al Ain track . It's inevitable, both the passing of the wadi tracks t...

"Dubai has nothing. No culture, no history, no character. It has no heart, no spirit, no traditions... It's not a real city, it...

(Photo credit: marsmet491 ) The UAE's Federal National Council has announced steps to ban super-sized sodas in ...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The UAE's 'incumbent' telco, Etisalat, has managed to neatly underline quite how fearful it is o...

(Photo credit: mikecogh ) One of my favourite jokes of all time is that people in Dubai don't understand the Flintstones, while Abu...

United Arab Emirates (Photo credit: saraab™ ) The National newspaper today confirms what has long been an odd quirk here in the UA...

The oil fired kiln at Thorban There used to be just the one road out to the East Coast of the UAE, a lasso-shaped affair that snake...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) It's not going to be long now before news media work out Bangladesh isn't the only place cheap c...

(Photo credit: Masako 川o'-')♪ ) I'll admit it, I'm confused. For years now, Gulf News has gone on about how won...

Image by Getty Images via @daylife We are all many things. You can be an oil executive, commuter, father of three or violent crime...

Image by ~Aphrodite via Flick r The news made me shudder. The UAE is introducing IBAN codes for all bank accounts.  By rights, this shoul...

Gulf News filed a Reuters report today on moves to improve Lebanon's internet access. The headline alone made me laugh, "Leban...

Image via Wikipedia Everyone's going potty about National Day and the lads have been busily decorating their cars - already the streets ...

It's a sad day for the United Arab Emirates - the Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah, His Highness Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammed Al Qassimi, died this ...