When I started this blog I started with the intention of explaining what went on in the Middle East, without any emotion. The thought was, ...

We've been having dust storms for quite some time across the entire GCC and the house is coated with a heavy, sand coloured dust that ju...

14th February is Valentines Day in much of the western world, but is a banned activity in Saudi Arabia {see wgaw blog archive: banned }. T...

image taken from: www.ordoesitexplode.com/.../wham_bam_thank_.html A traveller's or pleasure marraige, called a mi...