Stories about United Arab Emirates from July, 2010
Lebanon: Sex and the City
From Lebanon, Guy Meets World reviews Sex and the City, the movie.
Middle East: World Cup Final Thoughts
Psychic octopus Paul was right and Spain clinched the World Cup in the football finals, which ended in South Africa a few minutes ago. In the Arab World, Twitter users shared a few thoughts on the finale and the tournament overall.
Global: Paul the German Octopus Calls Another Match
For the past few weeks, amidst global World Cup madness, a young German octopus named Paul has been accurately predicting the victors of each football match from inside his tank.
UAE: The end of Emirates Business 24×7
Dubai-based Alexander McNabb, from Fake Plastic Souks, writes about the end of a newspaper – Emirates Business 24×7 – “the newspaper that managed to be as unwieldy and unattractive as its name.”