To apply for a visa for the UAE, a Lebanese married woman travelling alone requires a no objection letter from her husband, plus a copy of her husband’s photo ID.
Posts tagged UAE
Dubai Metro… a flop?
After 5 months of service, did the Dh28 billion (75% above the original estimates), one of the most advanced, longest automated driverless WiFi-enabled train system live up to the initial hype and fanfare?
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The world’s newest & most advanced metro aimed to join the league of megacities around the world, to ease the traffic problem, and to reduce road congestion and distances between key locations… Beyond its posh & mesmerizing design, did it meet these goals?
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On the positive side, the metro fare is affordable, and the surrounding of the metro stations (mainly malls) will flourish…
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On the other hand, the researchers and experts from around the world who have been working on the project since 1990, missed a key issue: that last mile connecting people from and to the stations:
Long walks in the desert heat is not the greatest ideas,
the 300 taxis assigned to support Dubai Metro network charge the regular fare (wasn’t the metro supposed to reduce the number of cars?),
and busses do not allow passengers that do not have a pre-paid card.
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أهلاً وسهلاً… Ahlein!
Ahlein.net is a web 2.0 website where people can post for free their furnished apartments & other real estate properties (apartments, chalets, rooms, villas, shops, lands, …) in Beirut, and in the rest of Lebanon (It also covers Dubai, & Cairo)
IndyAct vs. Sedar
IndyAct launched their “Stop the Carnage” ad campaign at the beginning of this year dedicated to combating rising fur sales in the Gulf and Middle East …
yay for IndyAct
And what does Sidar promote?
Armigatus 
