Gulf

After spending another year documenting abuses of migrant workers in the Middle East, it’s time that we look back at the most significant, influential and important stories that we’ve covered.
1. Death of Domestic Migrant Workers in Lebanon
This story is significant not just because of the sheer number of deaths and their alarming frequency, but also [...]

Reuse is an annual contemporary art exhibition organised by en.v Earth in Kuwait.  It’s putting a zesty twist to the issue of Kuwait’s environment, and rather than preaching, it’s showing the real life effects through art. The exhibition featured many high level attendees, including MP Dr. Rola Dashti, and MP Dr Aseel Al-Awadhi. the pieces [...]

The Chief Editor of Radijojo World Children’s Radio Network in Berlin; an international NGO dedicated to use media with and for children as a tool for intercultural dialogue, participation, children’s rights and global learning decided to work with Mideast Youth on an intercultural project. They were having a Radijojo radio Workshop about the relationship between [...]

Modern day slavery: a term often confused with residency trading. It’s the million dollar industry that trades human lives. KD 500 if you’re Asian, KD 1000 if you’re an Arab. And the customers? They’re young people desperate for a dream: The Kuwaiti Dream.
The issue of residency trading has been swept under the rug for a while [...]

Al-Jazeera English aired a story today about the abuse domestic workers suffer in the Gulf. The report included an interview with a women who came to work as a maid in the UAE from East Africa (her accent is Ethiopian, as far as I can tell). The maid was daily abused by her female employer [...]

David Gee is an English author and a wannabe satirist. He lived in the Gulf for six years trying to be funny and failing miserably in the process. In order to evidence his failure at humor he felt the urge to publish his poorly designed “novel” that recycles tedious stereotypes about the Gulf and specifically [...]

Climate unrest made the rush of heat slow down as it approached the Gulf. It is getting hot and humid, the sun would shine as explicitly as it shines, right over the blazing shores and over the shoulders of the fishermen.
The rush of merchants and tourists, oil tankers and politicians doesn’t change the delicious [...]

This week we’re talking to the editor of our Migrant-Rights.org website, which aims to explore, expose, and find ways to improve the horrific conditions of migrant workers in the Middle East, specifically the Gulf.
This is one of the most ignored topics in the region despite it being by far one of the most important. Millions [...]

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No woman ever imagines she would end up single again after taking the leap into marriage hood. Most women believe that marriage is forever and this rosy picture was introduced to us by bedtime stories and fairy tales where the prince and princess lived happily ever after!
That is what every little six year old girl [...]

(Palm Island in Dubai)
A couple of weeks ago I was in New Orleans with my parents at the annual craziness known as Fat Tuesday during Mardi Gras. Besides the excess of everything I saw there including waste, and the nasty black eye I sustained from a large set of beads being thrown on my head [...]