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World’s First Muslim Model Agency Opens in New York

World’s First Muslim Model Agency Opens in New York

The launch of the world’s first Muslim model agency, in New York’s fashionable Tribeca district, offered an interesting alternative to the options presented at New York Fashion Week a few blocks uptown. A coming-together of a particularly stylish segment of the Islamic community in this cosmopolitan city, the event on Saturday night played host to [...]

Samsung’s Products May be Banned in Iran

Samsung’s Products May be Banned in Iran

South-Korean Electronics giant, Samsung seems like creating much havoc in the middle-east on the basis of fault that too is not of its own – an Israeli commercial may be resulting in causing Samsung’s products to be banned entirely in Iran – as even might further cause and result in bringing an end to Iran’s [...]

International Prize for Arab Fiction Announced

International Prize for Arab Fiction Announced

The International Prize for Arab Fiction (IPAF) is going to hold its sixth edition in Abu Dhabi next March.The annual literary prize was launched in 2007 to enlarge the limited international availability of high quality Arab fiction. It is run with the support of the Booker Prize Foundation in London and funded by the Emirates [...]

Saudi Arabia to Probe “Dancing Nurses” King Fahd Hospital

Saudi health authorities have opened an investigation into three films published on U-Tube showing Asian nurses dancing at a mixed-gender birthday party inside a government hospital.

Arab Women’s Metabolism – Work it Out

Arab Women’s Metabolism – Work it Out

Arab women have something in common with a socio-economic group that many of us would find hard to imagine. They along with the women of the Midwest of the United States share the highest overweight/obesity rates in the world. Below is a table of varying studies. OVERWEIGHT/OBESE 2005   Egypt – women 79.8% 2006  Saudi [...]