I’m sick of detergents commercials, especially laundry detergents. Why? because they always involve a mother doing her family’s laundry, sometimes kids’ laundry and sometimes her successful husband’s white “dishdasha”. When is this gonna change? the stereotyping of women as housewives in commercials, who’s biggest dilemma is pleasing their husbands and making his clothes whiter than […]
As homosexuality in the Arab world is beginning to crawl out of the closet, Islamic authorities are up for a new challenge to clarify Islam’s stand on the issue and direct the audiences to behave in a politically correct way that doesn’t contradict with the Islamic teachings.
Man handed prison term for molesting his daughters By Rana Husseini
AMMAN — The Criminal Court has sentenced a 50-year-old Arab national to nine years and eight months in prison after convicting him of molesting his two daughters for the past 14 years.The defendant, who was arrested in January 2006, was convicted of molesting his […]
السعودية تقرر السماح للمرأة بالحصول على نسخة من أوراقها الثبوتية
دبي - العربية .نتأصدر الأمير نايف بن عبد العزيز، وزير الداخلية السعودي، قرارا يقضي بإمكانية حصول المرأة على نسخة رسمية طبق الأصل من القيود المسجلة في سجلات الأحوال المدنية المتعلقة بها أو بأصولها أو بأولادها ووالدهم، لكنه ربط قرار حصولها على نسخة رسمية طبق الأصل لشهادات […]
Turns out I’m not the only one annoyed by Fair and Lovely’s commercials. Check out their latest commercial (in Arabic) or the Indian version of it. So much for real beauty no?
This post is a reply to Bashir Goth’s article in which he linked to my post about Fair and Lovely’s TV commercials
1- At college; she majors in something she’s got passion for
I know that a lot of people will think I’m such a “mfalsafe”, but the minute I opened Helwa section in Maktoob I hated it, first the name Helwa “pretty” is sort of discriminatory, as well as objectifying of all women. Why “pretty”? did those who chose the name sit and think of one word […]
I don’t know where to start so I’ll just ramble and leave it to you to group my thoughts and make sense out of them.
“Roxanne, you don’t have to put on the red light”. I only watched Moulin Rouge a couple of weeks ago on mbc2 and I’m glad I did. First of all, I’m a fan of musical movies so I was greatly entertained by the musical bits. But the reason this movie is now a favorite, is […]
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