Stilettos in the Sand…...

Here is a most excellent example of a worker being taken advantage of with absolutely no recourse whatsoever. Tariq Al-Maeena has a big pa...

Maids are not the only workers being beaten [and abused]. Reading this the first time made me go, "Oh, my. The poor man!" But ...

Yeah. So, how are those new traffic laws working out, anyway? Good thing we have them. Yet, the roads here are no safer today than they w...

There was an article in yesterday's Arab News - which I was going to do a post on, and then didn't. So, today... Unlike in the We...

So say a group of Yemeni clerics , which they claim will "protect society from vice and sexual chaos." Yemen is only a short dist...

This has been in the news... I didn't pay a whole lot of attention to it. I wear my abeya when I leave our compound to do occasional ...

Six tons of chicken has been confiscated by municipality inspectors. How much is a ton? Isn't that 2000 pounds??? Six tons would be ...

Damn. The maids here have it rough. One way or another they are going to get beat. But, this time it wasn't a maid's employer; it...

Does calling the neighborhood boys TITS* count? From now on, I will only mutter this under my breath and will never say it aloud again. A...

Will wonders never cease! Rev called at 7:35 this morning and said he was going to be here in ten or fifteen minutes. And, guess what? HE...

Empty rhetoric intended for no other purpose but to placate the Human Rights Watch [HRW]. Officials , here, are upset over a recent 133 pa...

I, personally, applaud the the new traffic laws that went into effect on Monday. It is one small step in a much needed overhaul of the dri...

Call me prejudiced. I don't care. Just find me ONE Filipino worker that doesn't lie. One. Just one. They will lie right to your...

Even the internet, here, HAS to frustrate me! Good fucking grief, can't "you" make anything simple for us?!? Just let us sh...

As if it isn't difficult enough being a Western woman in this country, I seriously doubt that I would be able to cope at all if I was a ...

For a change, no need to play "guess the nationality." They are both listed. What is the sentence for rape, here, in the Sandbox...

I may as well face the facts. Not only am I NOT going to get my bedroom and closet done before I leave for vacation, but there is also NO W...

My grandiose plan to redo the bedroom in a matter of days... Ha! I started at the very end of June. We are about half-way through July. ...

Another more thorough and thought-out response to Maha Aheel's article and my post about Saudi women marrying non-Saudi men, here . [S...

When was it that I called maintenance to co me so they could fix the back door and the outside gates ? A month and a half ago... The back d...