The good news is: Dubai has made it into an international study comparing 21 global cities with each other. Given the ambitious goals the city-state has set itself will they be happy with rank 15th out of 21 cities? Since late September 2009 things seem not to turn out as they were meant to be for Dubai. What happened and
What has been extensively identified as the „most beautiful day in a woman’s life“ can turn out to be a nightmare in some places: marriage. We are not talking about the traditional „Get together” of relatives and friends on a hot summer day. But, about forced weddings with some unloved stranger, which take place on pain of penalties – physically
I am currently taking part in a “cultural competence” training course. A field, I have been engaged in and fascinated with in a while. Especially with regard to the deployment of so called expatriates, who are often, to my mind, send insufficiently prepared to subsidiaries abroad. It is often neglected by companies that such employees are regarded there as ambassadors
The Middle East Messenger (MEM) is coming of age: starting today all articles displayed in this blog will be bilingual! Caution: this only applies for articles published from June 6th, 2010 on. Choose your language via the Sidebar and choose between a German and an English blog version. I feel summer creeping in and I’m tired of this town again…
They are back: Four girl friends from downtown Manhattan, New York, the “Concrete Jungle” that Alicia Keys sings about in her soundtrack “Empire State of Mind” accompanying the movie. It comes back when the soundtrack starts: the comforting “Sex and the City”-feeling that made grey tueday nights bright blue. It comes back but it does not remain for long. Just
Evet, Turkish for “yes”, I do! A sentence that allededly every woman wants to say (at least) once in her life. Or is it rather that men want to hear that sentence at least once in THEIR life? Anyway, the Türkish Sinan Akkus, aka Sinan Turculu, THE Turkish guy from the TV-series Stromberg made a very nice debut-feature with its
The third edition is out since february. The third report seems to have been published without PriceWaterhouseCoopers but still provides us again with an overview of the media sector, this time for the years 2009-2013. The latest report encompasses three more Arabic countries: Palestine, Syria and Sudan. At the beginning let us take a look on the sector “online &
Last Saturday it was story hour again. On whom or what? The American movie or better to say the American world view. What it is all about? It is about the film “Hidalgo – 3000 miles towards glory”. Well, it could have been a nice film. The story, the film takes place end of 19th century, offered at least the
Even though the former Middle East Messenger nominally commited oneself to the regions of Middle and Near East, a look at the wider picture – literally to the second biggest Islamic country, India, – should be justified. The history of Islam in India is both, changeful and woebegone. The separation of Pakistan from India in 1947, for example, was gory,
There is more to the Gulf than the highest tower of the world, the only seven star hotel in the world or a metro that moves without a conductor. Thinking of the Gulf states is often synonymous with thinking of Dubai – the most prominent state. However, there are only a few who are aware of the fact that also