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Megan Detrie

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The oud makers of Cairo keeping the craft alive

Apr 8, 2013

What goes into sustaining the dying craft of oud-making in Egypt? Megan Detrie finds out.Read article "The oud makers of Cairo keeping the craft alive"

CaiRollers has Egypt's women on a roll with first roller derby team

Mar 26, 2013

In Egypt, a group of women are turning to roller derby as an outlet for creative and physical expression. We catch up with some of the players.Read article "CaiRollers has Egypt's women on a roll with first roller derby team"

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Follow the spice trail in Dubai's Little India

Jun 18, 2013

A culinary map of the variety of Indian food in just the two-kilometre radius of Karama in Dubai - often billed Little India. Read article

Camel hot dogs, now at a Dubai cafe near you

Jun 17, 2013

Jassim Albastaki is an Emirati entrepreneur and the owner of Cafe2Go in Dubai, which offers unusual camel-meat snacks.Read article

Latest Comments

One woman fights to lift the Saudi driving ban, and beyond

Mar 17 , 2012 | 01:10PM GST

Joe Blog

I wellcome the need for change in KSA particularly women participation in economic and political field. However without looking into the context of the current state, allowing Women to drive is ill advised. Often women are harrassed and followed by strange men. Just recently few women were waiting for a taxi and a Saudi driver stopped and when informed that they were waiting for a taxi, he insisted that he can take them where they want to go. When a taxi did arrive, this saudi driver followed them. Untill and unless this perverted and regressive behaviour stays and goes unchallanged, it is unsafe for female to go anywhere unaccompanied and more so driving by themselves. The Islam law allows women to travel unaccompanied for a lenght of a days journey. But KSA is far from being Islamic culturally and socially.

Turkey takes on mantle of arbiter of Middle East transformation

Sep 16 , 2011 | 02:21PM GST

jdonne141

It's high time Turkey takes a lead in the affairs of Middle East. Its isolation has been too long in the hope of being a part of Europe. It has now realized it was wrong, because it would never be acceptable, being a Muslim State. A good-for-nothing State, Greece, is o.k because it is Christian. No question the divide between Muslim and Judo-Christian is eternal.

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