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June 16th, 2026 - 11:45 GMT

Sally Shakkour

LIP KISS in 'Hob Ala Waraq': Haya Maraachli, Anas Tayara spark criticism

ALBAWABA - Social media users were buzzed after a lip kiss in the third episode of "Hob Ala Waraq", the Arabic version of the Turkish series "Sen Çal Kapımı" [You Knock on My Door // Love is in the Air]. The unexpected kiss between stars Haya Maraachli and Anas Tayara dominated talks online after it became the biggest shock in the finale of the third episode of the romantic comedy ...

Jordan demands reforms and things get ugly again in July after a relatively quiet, protest-free period since March.

July 16th, 2011 - 02:44 GMT

Jordan's back: Amman flares up again

When a man takes a mistress, it's something he either takes to the grave or keeps hush about til his wife makes that
discovery. Not when that mistress is the beautiful coastal Byblos (Jubeil), north Lebanon.

July 14th, 2011 - 11:45 GMT

I have a Mistress: a Confession

Oldie sexist ads are popular today - and an opportunity to view such 'bad jokes' without being labelled as un-PC or misogynistic. Still, found today on fridge magnets and giftable items.

July 14th, 2011 - 10:21 GMT

Top 10 Sexist Ads you'd 'Like'

Israel's soldiers banned from Tweeting? Whatever will be next in this world of bans, blockades and boycotts.

July 13th, 2011 - 03:41 GMT

Israeli army 'blockaded' from Facebooking or Tweeting home

Iranian women's football.

July 13th, 2011 - 02:26 GMT

Muslim women: protesting the right to cover your neck in sport

The pool contained stray floating sperm, claims Polish mother. Experts including the hotel officials pool-side, say that the temperature at which the pool is heated would not allow
the survival of sperm, not to mention if it survived the chlorine treating the water.

July 12th, 2011 - 01:16 GMT

Mom claims 13 yr-old daughter pregnant from sperm in Egypt pool- in 'Denial' say others!

Carole Samaha is Sabah in a soap series depicting the life and times of Lebanon's singer star "Sabouha", who is still fighting fit.

July 12th, 2011 - 11:04 GMT

Ramadan soap operas: when less is more, Carole Samaha acts Sabah

Rachel Corrie, victim of bulldozing to death in Israel, 2003, while protesting the Palestinian right to shelter and to challenge the
oppressive state. She is now the subject of a staged play in her name.

July 11th, 2011 - 11:23 GMT

Rachel Corrie's death-by-bulldozer case heard 8 years on by Israeli courts

A child crying after a parental scolding. In the Arab world, parents are often sensitive to points that would not unsettle
a non-Arab family as much, mocks Kabobfest blogs.

July 11th, 2011 - 10:36 GMT

How To Humiliate Arab Parents

Mud-bathing in the Dead Sea, Jordan. Closing the chapter of the much bandied about Arab Spring, we now usher in the Arab Summer.

July 10th, 2011 - 02:30 GMT

Out with Arab Spring; in with Arab Summer!

A pensive looking grad student absorbed in his own thoughts. Maybe carrying the weight of a thesis on his shoulders might
attract him to prayer.

July 10th, 2011 - 10:42 GMT

Being an overworked grad student can inspire religiosity

A Gulf flight circles low over Abu Dhabi not a far leap from the regional flight Dubai-to-Kuwait that exposed a drunken Kuwait air-line pilot.

July 9th, 2011 - 02:12 GMT

When a Kuwaiti airpilot is found drunk in 'dry' country aboard his flight