Bahrain’s Seera Investment bank inks deal for London student housing property; slated to open in 2013
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By Iqbal Tamimi The third episode of the TV comedy series, Citizen Khan, has been aired on BBC One. The show has been watched by at least 3.6million viewers in its first week. And I would say it is a brilliant production that I have personally... Read more
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Islamic masterworks go on show in Doha US-based Sotheby’s, one of the world’s largest auctioneers of fine and decorative art, is staging an exhibition of Islamic arts in Qatar this weekend. Artefacts valued at millions of dollars... Read more
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Today at the Houses of Parliament, Maryam al-Khawaja asked MPs to put pressure on Bahrain to commit to reforms and free politcal prisoners, including her father and sister. Here, the prominent human rights defender denounces Britain’s... Read more
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Women and girls continue to be the worst affected by Syria’s conflict, but their suffering rarely makes the headlines
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UK-based Bourn Hall Clinic, the world’s original IVF clinic, has launched its first services in the UAE. Its state-of-the-art fertility and assisted conception facility has opened in the Sheikh Hamdan Centre in Dubai
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In his biographies of Yasser Arafat, Gamal Abdel Nasser and Saddam Hussein, Said Aburish highlighted his aversion to dirty dealing and dictatorship
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London’s new cable car system, made possible by a $56m sponsorship deal with Dubai’s Emirates Airline, has carried more than one million passengers in its first nine weeks of operation
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In September 2011, King Abullah announced that women would be eligible to sit in the council for the first time. Authorities in Saudi Arabia are expected to name 30 women to the kingdom’s consultative Shoura Council before the start of its... Read more
Over two hundred Jordanian websites went dark on Wednesday, in a SOPA-like protest of draft legislation that would allow the government to block and censor Internet content. The action was coordinated by a grassroots organization of tech savvy... Read more