We stopped it before it became too much. At least I tried. Grey clouds slept overhead, weeping, as if they already know our fate. And when they parted, the warm sun shone down lovingly. And I closed off; parted ways. “His birthday is next month…

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 [...]

This was a question asked here and columnist Suzi Godson gave some good advice. Filed under: Lifestyle, Men, Relationships, Sexuality, Women

Does an affair with your married ex-husband constitute an affair? I loved this film. And this clip is hilarious: Filed under: Film & Ads, Relationships

We haven’t had a guest writer in a while. In this post, Eric shares his story with us:
We met in the oddest way.
Sitting on the ledge of a corner with my friends in January of 1987, we saw two girls with bicycles walking by.
Unfortunately my friends were a little immature and began making fun of [...]

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 [...]

It was getting pretty ridiculous. I on any set of spare front steps, waiting to be let in only to have the door slammed in my. Time after freaking time. “Shfeech, what are you still doing there?” my friends would ask; it was their tired, p…

He has a mac and he spies on me. Why I don’t know. I was trying to recall something today but it got lost in the rush of sound that comes with the early morning drone of traffic. So noisy all the time now. So noisy even through the fog of sleep.
I think his name [...]

Um Saoud did not place a “Wanted: Husband” ad.
She did not apply with a matchmaker who would supply her with the names of rickety old widowers or divorced men who would only want to control her.
And at sixty something, she was free to love and wealthy enough to secure it.
One afternoon in June, she headed [...]

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 [...]

Translation pending.

Filed under: Film & Ads, Husbands, Lifestyle, Love, Relationships, Women

The Fifth Pound (2005)  الجنيه الخامس is the first film for Egyptian producer Ahmad Khaled. It is a short film, about 14 minutes long that tells the story of a young man and a young woman who meet every Friday at the bus stop to ride the airconditioned CTA bus around Cairo.
The young couple choose [...]

With so much news that brings us down, it is always heartwarming to hear good news and to read stuff that uplifts us.
I enjoyed this story tonight:
This Love Story Had a Perfect Ending by Deb Gruver
Posted in Life, Links, Love, News, Relationships, Stories

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Six months ago… “Tell me a bedtime story,” she whispered into the phone, pulling her comforter up to her chin. “7ayati… you know I don’t know how to tell stories. Intay goleeli? I love your stories.” Shaha closed her eyes and conte…

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 [...]

I sat in front of the mirror and took a long sip of my steaming American coffee. I had a long day ahead of me; a midterm, a response paper to hand in, and several hundred errands to take care of before my next trip to the UAE. Time was passing muc…

“Yalla, I’m waiting,” her friend had said bluntly.”Give me a minute, I’m leaving now” she replied, before hanging up and throwing her phone on her messy bed.She opened the doors to her closet in search of a jacket. The wind howled outside and she could…

A few nights ago I switched the tv onto a controversial talk show I had heard about in passing hosted by  Nada Fadhel Dbouk. The show is called For Women Only and aired very late on Scope TV channel. Some women at a recent gathering had mentioned her and how vulgar and risque she was [...]

I’ll never forget that day. “Where are you now? Shaha?” “If we’re going to do this let’s just do it! Just say goodbye, we had good times oo khalas, hang up!” “No! Shaha, if we’re going to end it, it needs to be face to face. W…

For the first time in a long time, she’d diverted her phone calls. She rarely did so, even when she’d have fall outs in her previous relationships. Her friends would always encourage her to – “Don’t be so available! Let him wonder where you are!”‘Haha,…

Seriously.. It’s been a while, huh?*dusts this blog off*First of all let me say that you guys are the best fans/readers/supporters/friends anyone could ever ask for.. It wasn’t easy at ALL leaving this blog alone. Thoughts and sayings and phrases cloud…

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 [...]

Interesting how one thing leads top another.
The news that Mark Lester may be the biological father of the late Michael Jackson’s daughter Paris, led me to refresh my memory of the young actor in Oliver the movie.
I ended up stumbling on an interesting film he acted in with Jack Wild called  Melody (aka S.W.A.L.K.) about [...]

Shaha was sitting in the center of her bed, her back resting against the headboard, surrounded by pillows with silk pillowcases and cotton balls soaked in acetone and the residue of Blue Satin resting on piles of tissue paper. She held a nail filer…

“Princess facing Saudi death penalty given secret UK asylum…Woman feared she would be stoned after giving birth to an illegitimate child in Britain”
When I read the headlines on the front page of the newspaper, I didn’t expect it to be the Independent but rather one of the newsy tabloids that grab readers’ attention through such [...]

Shaha always had trouble falling asleep. She could lie in bed for hours listening to every little sound and watch shadows dance across her ceiling; she could be thinking about him or something that happened that day or even something she wanted to …

Two Arab music teachers were caught kissing in a car on the 6th or 7th ring road motorway recently (the location varies according to different sources). They were spotted and reported by a good law abiding citizen and consequently apprehended.

I wondered as I read the news paper, were they kissing as the car was being [...]

When I finally told Hamad, I felt a sense of great relief. A burden had been lifted from my shoulders. He stared at me in disbelief, shock written all over his face, his black eyes searching for explanations. I couldn’t give him any short ones. I  talked all night, into the dawn, and after the [...]