While we all know full well that a mother remains a mother through thick and thin and would be hard-pressed to abandon her son or daughter even in the most testing or ‘shameful’, even criminal, of circumstances... well we at Al Bawaba think that some of these mamas should be disappointed, if not positively ashamed, of their spawn. For the 'naughty' offspring on our short-list of shame, apparently it’s a bit much to ask that they turn out every mom’s dream of being decent upstanding citizens and as a bonus ...

We couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate Mother’s Day than with a list of Arabized “yo mama” jokes! In Arabic the "your mum", maybe better known as the infamous “yo mama” franchise, carries a literal equivalent in Ummak … which gets used as a stand alone byword for a whole cascade of cultural insults, or borrowed with a qualifier for bad jokes. Except, we wouldn’t dream of being mean about our moms (or mums if you will!) - unless we're asking to have a frisbeed slipper land on ...

Netanyahu is facing a backlash against the Gaza conflict as Isaac Herzog’s Zionist Union government gains ground . For Arabs in the country , much is at stake in Israeli elections every four years. How do Israeli elections work? Candidate parties receive parliament seats proportionate to the number of citizens who voted for them. There are 120 seats total. Seats are counted. Unless a party wins the majority of seats, the next move is to negotiate among the candidates. (In recent polls Herzog stands at 24-26 seats, not even a ...