Elina Svitolina of Ukraine celebrates with the trophy after winning the final women's WTA Tennis Championship match in Dubai on February 25, 2017. Svitolina beat Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki 6-4, 6-2 to win a rain-delayed final, cracking the elite on tenth for the first time as she defeated the 2011 champion, a former world number one seven years ago. KARIM SAHIB / AFP

Abdulaziz Haikal (R) of UAE's Al-Ahli FC kicks the ball past Ali Ghorbani of Iran's Esteghlal FC during their AFC Champions League qualifying football match between UAE's Al-Ahli and Iran's Esteghlal FC at Al-Rashid Stadium in Dubai on February 20, 2017. STRINGER / AFP

Working in the Middle East can have its perks. While towering, tax-free incomes are generally limited to the Gulf, what office spaces from Cairo to Amman lack in liras or dinars, they make up for in other departments. One of the curious comforts you might come across in the average Arab work environment is the luxury of your very own office butler, aka the tea/coffee boy (office boy if you will)! While a tea boy might seem like the best thing to happen to your working life, the relationship you ...

AS Roma's midfielder from Egypt Mohamed Salah (R) celebrates after scoring Torino , during the Italian Serie A football match AS Roma versus Torino on February 19, 2017 at Rome's Olympic stadium. ANDREAS SOLARO / AFP

If you’re hoping to score with a special someone this Valentine’s Day, you’ve come to the right place. We are generously taking the time out from our Trump watch to reveal what WON'T WORK in your battle to woo those Arab, or foreign, beauties you have your heart set on picking up tonight or any other night in the calendar! The lush ladies of Al Bawaba have been hit on enough times over the years to know which pick-up lines will make women swoon and which will have them running ...

Roma's Bosnian forward Edin Dzeko (R) celebrates after scoring with teammate Egyptian forward Mohamed Salah during the Italian Serie A football match FC Crotone vs AS Roma on February 12, 2017 at the Ezio Scida Stadium, in Crotone. CARLO HERMANN / AFP

While the world is occupied with either mocking or protesting against US President Donald Trump, we took the time out to suss out his wife, First Lady Melania Trump. After carefully studying Melania's face, style and body language, it turns out that the Eastern European minx has more in common with certain Arab starlets than she might have realized. Sure, these Middle Eastern bombshells have never posed in the nude à la Mrs. Trump (although Myriam Klink came very close to it), but they share an uncanny resemblance to her ...

Qatar's Al-Sadd starting eleven pose for a team photo prior to their AFC Champions League playoff football match against Iran's Esteghlal club at the Azadi stadium in Tehran on February 7, 2017. ATTA KENARE / AFP

Cameroon team players and Cameroon's Belgian coach Hugo Broos (C) celebrate with the winner's trophy after beating Egypt 2-1 to win the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations final football match between Egypt and Cameroon at the Stade de l'Amitie Sino-Gabonaise in Libreville on February 5, 2017. ISSOUF SANOGO / AFP

Depending on how you look at Trump’s Muslim Ban, there are much badder guys on the block than refugees from his big bad seven . Somalia, Libya, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Sudan and Yemen might include two thirds of Bush's former axis of evil, and were already deemed suspect enough by Obama, but we would wager that a lot of the international incidents of late have involved nefarious nationals further afield the Muslim heartlands. Those Muslim majority countries that didn't make the cut could be forgiven for feeling rather spurned or ...

Tiger Woods of the United States follows his ball after playing a shot during the Dubai Desert Classic golf tournament at the Emirates Golf Club in Dubai on February 2, 2017. NEZAR BALOUT / AFP