This is a poem by Mohammed Abdulaziz Alduwaihi dedicated to Kuwait:   Filed under: Kuwait, Life, Poetry

        20-year-old youth narrates his woes after serving six-month jail “KUWAIT CITY, Feb 3: A 20-year-old youth Adel, who claims to have been wrongly accused of cross-dressing, narrated his woes to Al-Rai daily. Adel, who recent…

I can’t believe I’ve been blogging for seven years now. I don’t write as much as before but then again there are only a handful of blogs left from that time as most people have quit or migrated to other platforms. I want to thank all …

He said: “My Kuwaiti wife and I divorced so that our children could get Kuwaiti citizenship. Now after the kids have become Kuwaiti, I want to remarry my wife but she won’t have me! She says she is happier without me. Now what do I do? Who …

She told us the story of a beautiful woman. An older woman who took care of herself and looked good. Looking good was defined as having an attractive body, dressing well, and undergoing all possible cosmetic beauty treatments to preserve the remnants o…

Is it ever possible to overcome bitterness?   Filed under: Life, Polls

              AbdulSamad Dashti says he wants to run for Kuwaiti parliament in the coming elections. He  is running to represent Kuwaiti Christians who came to this country 150 years ago. On a lighter seasonal note, …

As I walked down the street in the freezing cold, I heard the sweet voices of a little choir of four blind people.  It wasn’t raining yet, but it felt like the weather was about to change its mind. The wind chill dropped the temperature of the stree…

More miscellanea. Łódź is the third largest city in Poland and its name means “boat”. Jacob Brownowski was from Łódź. Te Horo is in New Zealand and in the Maori language it means “landslide”. It is also the location of Tal…

According to the Telegraph, the toy store Hamleys has changed its toy signs amid allegations of sexism. Filed under: Children, Life, Lifestyle, Links, Opinion, Polls

Tell me one interesting fact about  Rosignano Marittimo, Tuscany. Have you heard of  a city called Oxford in Ohio?  It is a college town of the Miami University. There is a city called Moscow in Idaho. In November of 2011, the Ismat Ara and Abdul Ma…

Aliaa MagdyElmahdy is an Egyptian feminist who recently published a series of nude photos including some of herself on her blog. She did this as a political statement to protest her right as a woman to live with freedom without being controlled by chau…

Heightened security checks at the entrance to General Assembly building results in securitymen finding a bottle of Chivas whiskey and a red lingerie item with black polka dots in the car boot of a secretary to one of the members of parliament. Both ite…

Raghad had read about the woman in the local paper. She was a mother of four children. When the  father came home, the children told him that their mother had left them and gone to live in a flat in Salmiya which she had rented on her own. The husband…

A while ago I read an interesting article about a nurse who helped a disabled  teenager deal with sexual tension by buying him a vibrating sex toy. This is a controversial topic because there is a fine line between assistance and possible abuse. Disab…

Tonight I killed two mosquitoes with my bare hands. The first one I smashed as I clapped  two hands around it. It wedged between my fingers. The other, I killed with my left hand, smashing it against the desk. This morning I was more merciful. The mos…

My companion and I walked down to the beach and sat on the plastic chairs. It was night. The sound of the waves breaking was loud. It was poetry. It was night but it was not totally dark. We were silhouetted by a big beam of light shining behind us fro…

I still have my sandals on in the house. This is  unusual. I always take off my footwear before entering our living quarters unless I don’t mean to stay for very long. Actually, sometimes I leave my shoes on because I am too lazy. I also think i…

Lockdown, protests. Even I have started to drink coffee in the morning instead of chai. I spread crunchy peanut butter deep into a hot, toasted piece of pita bread and the ooozing sweetness sickens me. Immediately I think of thick-sliced, soft American…

            ‘Lovers’ caught: The Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh police have arrested an unidentified Asian couple — driver and a maid — for indulging in immoral activities, reports Al-Rai daily. According to reports the suspect…

Power of the people This week, Wangari Maathai died in her native Kenya.  Not only was she one of the most educated women of her generation in that part of Africa,obtaining a doctoral degree in veterinary anatomy, but she was also a Nobel peace laurea…

Do we have a pregnant robot in the medical school at Kuwait University to train med students? Noelle is pregnant robot available from Gaumard used as a birthing simulator.           Filed under: Life, Links, Motherhood, Women

Customs foils bid to smuggle ‘sex toys’ by Kuwaiti woman  KUWAIT CITY, Sept 20: Customs officials, in coordination with the Ministry of Communications, recently foiled an attempt by a Kuwaiti woman to import sex toys and other stuffs into the coun…

Circumstance is a film directed by Maryam Keshavarz and it deals with the lesbian relationship between two young women in Iran. In this clip, Keshavaraz discusses her controversial film:   The trailer: I don’t think KNCC will be showing this…

When I first read this article, I scoffed and was mildly amused at the idea of two people jammed in an airplane bathroom for 20 minutes and then kept thinking: “Why was a third person also handcuffed and taken away?” Here is the article sin…

He’s upset. I was to understand soon the reason why. He wore a hat and the radio was blaring in the front part of the cab. On and off though. He seemed to be on the phone some. And then he’d turn the radio up again. I looked out at the stre…

I don’t remember what kind of top she wore. I only concentrated on her black leggings that molded the shape of her full thighs as she walked along before me on the busy London pavement. I was drawn to the sheer quality of her leggings and that fa…

Sleep takes me into strange dark places. It’s difficult to define my state of being. A part of me is left behind as I wake up, and continue to feel disoriented. It makes me not want to go back to sleep, to that dark place once more. When I am ful…

I just re-discovered sharbat baythan (which is almond syrup drink served ice-cold) and Rauch lychee juice. Light and airy. Filed under: Life, Lifestyle

Kuwaiti women love to buy new tableware for Ramadan, even if  the cupboards are full of dishes and other related items. Filed under: Life, Lifestyle