It was too early when I woke up. I ambled to the sitting room and set a tall glass of water before me. The air conditioner was blowing chilled air in that particular position and I enjoyed it. Arctic conditions in 50 C + temperatures. I switched on the…

At our larger women’s gatherings, we rarely talk about sex and hardly ever about our intimate relations with our husbands. At our last gathering however, one woman started the subject by discussing her recent findings of the marital relations bet…

We’ve previously discussed the issue of fathers discovering that they were raising another man’s child. This issue is not restricted to a certain society or culture. I’m sure there are psychological reasons and sociological explanatio…

When Ahmad proposed to Abeer, she accepted his conditions despite the protests of her parents and family. Ahmad asked Abeer not only to wear the hijab but also to wear an abaya at all times when she went out. He was not overly religious and neither did…

Fahad’s family asked for the hand of Mona in marriage and after preliminary investigations and discussions, the union was agreed to by both parties. Although Fahad had agreed to give Mona a dowry of a certain amount, he had not actually given it …

In Arab romance, a possessive attitude and jealousy are usually regarded as a positive trait in a romantic or a marital relationship. It proves that your partner cares. This is not my personal opinion but what I perceive to be the norm: “I’…

A man who found that his wife was cheating on him with her second husband could face up to 5 years on a felony computer misuse charge: [link] “Leon Walker, 33, of Rochester Hills, Mich., is being charged with felony computer misuse, and faces up …

We were talking about older women marrying younger men and how it could really serve to revivify a woman. Roqaya laughed and said: Have I told you about  the woman in her fifties who married a man in his late thirties?  She was a widow with grown chi…

“How are you?! Oh, and I thought you had gone to Lebanon for the holidays?” exclaimed Jamila with a big smile. Farah rolled her eyes upwards and pouted: “No, it’s only Mahmoud. He’s gone with friends for the New Year.&#822…

Another episode in “The Culture of Violence”: Arab Times asks what would you have done? A woman, whose identity has not been disclosed, has filed a complaint with the police accusing her husband of deliberately damaging her car and beating her, rep…

After a successful online business venture with  Khadija Mall, Khadija Ahmad opened her shop in Bahrain called Khadija Fashion House where she sells lingerie and sex toys as well as products designed to enhance the sex life of married couples. (Link t…

It’s camping season again and with it the newspapers are dotted with related criminal activities from reported rapes, murders, stabbings, abductions, illicit parties and thefts ranging from livestock to electric generators. A couple  of days ago…

Actually it was not a joke but one of those silly messages. With the advent of so many platforms that enable instantaneous communication with others, there comes a host of new rules and etiquette that must be learned by users. Yesterday was the Islamic…

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His fingers flick lightly through my hair and he smiles in admiration. Aloud he tells me how beautiful it looks and I twist my head around and say coquettishly, yes, it’s the handiwork of that French hairstylist. I forgot her name. Coquette? She …

More entertainment from Arab Times. The mistress is referred to as “concubine”. How very harem like. 2-timing hubby :  A Kuwaiti woman, in her 50s, has purportedly used spy gadgets and equipment for almost a month until she discovered the …

There is a word in Kuwaiti dialect that describes unnecessary nosiness: ligafah. In other words involving oneself in the business of others and more often than not, deserving the consequences. Once, a Kuwaiti couple on a visit to Sri Lanka were walking…

I read a little news bit about men in Saudi Arabia and how in general they did not know the birth dates of their wives or their children. According to the newspaper, only one surveyed Saudi Arabian man reportedly knew the birth dates of all his family …

For under 4,000 K.D. ($7,000-$9,000) you can afford a second wife or a mistress for your husband. She may distract your husband, take his attention away from you but you want that now and then, don’t you? You need some time to chill by yourself and not worry about the angels damning you to eternity [...]

How some people manipulate the law to their own advantage: Virgin wife says Canadian husband wants indecent sex KUWAIT CITY, May 4: The Jahra police have arrested a Canadian man of Arab origin, following a complaint filed by his wife —believed to be a citizen of an unidentified GCC state — for forcing her to [...]

According to the NRC this weekend a new sex web-shop will be launched by a Dutch team geared towards Muslims.
I don’t see why there should be a strictly Islamic sex shop. It sounds like  a clever business venture to me. What couldn’t people in the Netherlands get for all their intimate needs? Unless it was [...]

When is the last time, if ever, anyone in Kuwait was lashed as punishment for a crime?
And do adulterers get lashed too if they are charged with the crime or do they simply face imprisonment and deportation?
I was interested to read this in the Daily Mail:
“Under Kuwait’s strict Sharia Law, married couples who commit adultery [...]

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The first thing I read this morning was Saudi girl ends bid to divorce octogenarian and I felt sorry for the 12 year old girl who “changed” her mind and decided to go ahead and marry the 80 year old man. How can one justify such abuse of a child? Although there are people and [...]

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Such excitement from the one and only Arab Times.
This would make such an interesting short story.
“KUWAIT CITY, Nov 25: A drunken boyfriend of a Kuwaiti woman sustained injuries to his hand when the woman tried to hide him on the rooftop of her husband’s home in Meshrif, after the man announced he was coming home.
Security [...]

Sometimes there is just no way you can please a man.
On their second wedding anniversary, a Saudi woman wanted to surprise and please her husband so she used one of those artificial virginity hymen kits distributed by the Chinese company Gigimo.

Did he enjoy deflowering her again?
No.
He divorced her and accused her of faking her virginity [...]

There has been lots of discussion and speculation about the horrific tragedy in Kuwait a few days ago in which scores of women and children died and suffered from very serious burns. (Link)
Today, there are new developments to the story. The daily Kuwaiti Alqabas  newspaper published the detailed confession of the woman responsible for setting [...]

What if our wedding zaffas were this fun?

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