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Reason #12,033,343,343,01 why capitalism sucks
After a global campaign was launched to boycott Dunkin’ Donuts for its bigotted removal of a commercial featuring one Rachael Ray wearing a scarf that looked a little too Arab (see: “Dunkin’ Zionuts“) the reaction from the UAE’s Dunkin’ Donuts regional offices is not surprising in the least. If they would have supported the boycott [...]
LIVNI LA VIDA LOCA: Spitfire-side Chat
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, seen here raising a finger during her April visit to Qatar, may have used her visit to stick up for Shimon Peres’ hurt feelings. (What kind of a weird flicking-off that is, and more significantly why the AFP posted this as their main closeup of Livni is beyond me.) There [...]
I’m disappointed
To all the Haters… OK… So I’m in the most interesting place the world, going to clubs, beaches, hotels, restaurants, sitting in LA-like traffic, going to malls that have full on decor that match the themes, (like Persia, China, Egypt, Tunis, etc.) Dubai…Wow. I’m disappointed with all the people that told me I would hate [...]
How Do You Say Marketplace In Arabic?
NPR/PRI’s financial program packed its suitcases and sent its staff to the Middle East to report from one of the world’s fastest growing economies for a few days. And yes, there is enough to fill a couple of weeks’ worth of programming; it is not solely oil. Now if reading the above paragraph gave you [...]
American College Opens Up Satellite School In the Middle East
In a move transform NYU into “Global Network University,” the New York city-based private university has expanded beyond it’s Union Square and Houston reach to include a satellite campus in the Middle East. http://www.nyu.edu/public.affairs/releases/detail/1787 Beth Fertig from WNYC reports on the recent announcement: “A-BOOO DUHHBEEE* will serve 2000 students when it opens in three years. [...]
Fox News’ Wisdom on “Apple Dubai”
Some of you might have already heard or read about the breaking financial news story about Mubadala Development Company’s, Abu Dhabi’s state-owned investment company, landmark purchase of 8.1% of the world’s second largest chipmaker, Advanced Micro Devices, AMD. By “some of you”, I mean all you non-Fox News Money For Breakfast show hosts, hosts who [...]
Justin Timberlake to perform in Middle East
Five bucks to the first person to guess in which “cultural jewel”… Justin Timberlake will be jetting off to Abu Dhabi for his first Middle Eastern concert in December. The ‘SexyBack’ singer’s show at the Emirates Palace Hotel on December 6 will be his first in the United Arab Emirates and the final concert on [...]
The Spitfire-side Chats: The Low Down on the High Value of “Low” and “Good” Numbers in the UAE and other Persian Gulf States
“Yo son, what you sporting these days?”“Well, you know how I do; I got me some gators, 22s, and a single-digit license plate number-ya herrrrd!” That’s right, big pimpin’ in the Arab world has taken a life of it’s own. Because of the general level of wealth enjoyed by Khaleeji national community (and corrupt monarchy-sustained [...]
Jamie Foxx’s 850,000 square kilometres of *bling*
Obviously, Jamie Foxx is a really good actor. Let’s just get that out of the way right now. And let’s also get out of the way that I don’t make it a habit to poke fun at a man whose A) performances of Wanda skyrocketed my big bootied self-esteem in Jr High like nothing else [...]
Arabs in the PSA Game
Your dog will be upset with you if you smoke some herb. Your brain will resemble a pan of fried eggs if you use drugs. You will have a conspicuous, ghastly hole in the middle of your throat if you chain puff those ciggies We know these PSAs very well, and I dare say that [...]
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