MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
By Bassam Za’za’, Gulf News, February 13, 2011
Dubai: A British woman and an American man have been fined Dh2,000 each for exchanging sexual insults on facebook, a court ruled on Sunday.
The Dubai Misdemeanour Court convicted the 35-year-old American engineer and the 44-year-old British businesswoman for exchanging insults in private chat rooms over the social networking website facebook....
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Thanks for finding and sharing this. Facebook sure is stirring up some shit in the Mideast.
by acanuck on Sun, 02/13/2011 - 4:39pm
I've got to remember to check out wassup on Gulf News more often. I recall that in the past they often have sort of hints of their alternative vision of modern life. Here's one of those today, this time on their front page:
At the same time, they had this whole page of stories on the topic of Valientine's Day, which shows how different the UAE can be from its neighbor Saudi Arabia.
by artappraiser on Mon, 02/14/2011 - 11:50pm