Really this has to be just about the funniest thing I've ever seen. First the parrot dances to an Egyptian song and then it dances to ...

I love these old 1960's photos of Bahrain for various reasons, but mostly because of that washed out look and because they seem to hark ...

Sent to me by a Saudi male friend who thought it hillarious, one American's thoughts on some often used Arabic phrases.  There's som...

Freej [free-jh] (neighbourhood in Arabic) is an Arabic cartoon full of wonderfully silly stuff from Dubai in the UAE. There are four ma...

Welcome back to 'How to Read and Write Arabic'.  The  previous post  was written a while ago, before Ramadan in fact, and today we...

It feels like time for something very silly:

I found one of these little critters in my bath yesterday: Image taken from:  www.kabbalahzen.blogspot.com Whilst I was having a s...

Today's post is posted simply because I like this picture: Image taken from:  2 .bp's blogspot

My husband's four year old neice loves 'Rachid al Majid' and will announce he's about to sing, as soon as the first note of ...

I had wanted to fill the month of Ramadan with blog posts only about Ramadan and Ramadan activities.  It seemed to be one way of explaining ...

Eid al Fitr [‘eed ul fit-terr] is the name of the holiday which follows the month of fasting during Ramadan; the first day for a month whe...

Laylat Jizra/ Lailatul Jaiza [lay-lat jiz-rra] or the 'Night before Eid' is known in English as the 'Night of Reward'.  Th...

Laylat al Qadr [lay-lat al kaa-der] or, the 'Night of Power', ' Night of Decree' or 'Night of Measures'  is the nigh...

The trauma of driving on the roads in Ramadan has to be experienced to be believed. The Middle East already has one of the highest death r...

Image Taken from: Ghabga press-release Years ago a group of friends, say 20 or so people, were likely to arrange to ea...

Marrat Iman Ali is not a night for celebration, but a night of remembrance. It was on this night in AD 663 Imam Ali bin Abi Talib was murd...

During Ramadan life changes completely, night becomes day and day becomes night, or so it feels.  In reality many Muslims in the GCC will...