tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693902872333225859.comments2023-10-06T18:20:09.127+02:0040° 24' N , 3° 42' EVictoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15567196006173884087noreply@blogger.comBlogger137125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693902872333225859.post-31363796814593908802010-10-07T07:58:58.467+02:002010-10-07T07:58:58.467+02:00Well done for promoting a positive issue from the ...Well done for promoting a positive issue from the Middle East - its nice to see that someone takes a broader view of their own region congratulations on a nice blog <br /><br /><br />http://www.hawar-islands.com/blog/home_stub.phpAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693902872333225859.post-73176126902583058142010-09-22T11:26:56.958+02:002010-09-22T11:26:56.958+02:00Hmmm, I couldn't find a date on your articles ...Hmmm, I couldn't find a date on your articles which is a little disappointing, but I wanted to thank you for posting stories such as this.<br /><br />As a Kuwaiti myself I'm sick of the abuse that happens here and in the Gulf area toward domestic workers. Hopefully at the very least, the new legislation to give them their salaries directly passes.Eliasozhttp://welurk.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693902872333225859.post-79205615245860131792010-09-06T01:01:14.638+02:002010-09-06T01:01:14.638+02:00Tienes un blog muy interesante, donde se pueden ap...Tienes un blog muy interesante, donde se pueden aprender muchas cosas. Enhorabuena.Josu Armaoleahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02981588730540419205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693902872333225859.post-68909431098897699072010-09-03T01:34:45.700+02:002010-09-03T01:34:45.700+02:00When one human being has power over another, there...When one human being has power over another, there will be exploitation. Immigrants picking oranges in California live and toil in terrible conditions.<br /><br />The solution is economic development back home: why do these people go abroad to work under somebody in the first place?Iftekharhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11253056014938830642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693902872333225859.post-37361267954913296472010-08-30T16:55:41.467+02:002010-08-30T16:55:41.467+02:00Hi, I just came across your blog looking for Spani...Hi, I just came across your blog looking for Spanish people living in Kuwait and you seem to have been there!<br /><br />I am moving in December to Kuwait for a two-year period and would like to contact the Spanish community there. <br /><br />Please contact me if you feel like to help me on this<br /><br />Thanks!<br /><br />Tito <br /><br />titorodriguezbouza@gmail.comTito Rodrigueznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693902872333225859.post-42088455904591138262010-07-14T07:17:17.186+02:002010-07-14T07:17:17.186+02:00and i thought racism in kuwait was a huge issue, t...and i thought racism in kuwait was a huge issue, this takes the cake!<br /><br />Lebanon is definately off my "to-visit" list.LorD AymZhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02155827865353161022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693902872333225859.post-79483052561417408572010-07-02T21:27:46.057+02:002010-07-02T21:27:46.057+02:00Love the clipLove the cliptoddtuckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15562945496127256584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693902872333225859.post-77316041836399066342010-07-02T01:49:22.968+02:002010-07-02T01:49:22.968+02:00hi dear,
well, this is Huda Husain, she's a ve...hi dear,<br />well, this is Huda Husain, she's a very famous Iraqi show actress who was born and raised in Kuwait. <br /><br />after iraq have invaded kuwait (when she left to Qatar as no Iraqis were allowed), she couldn't pass to kuwait back again. so after a while she was married to a Kuwaiti to get a Kuwaiti nationality and got back again to continue her acting career, and after some time, she got divorced and remained single.<br /><br />she is famous for her ramadan shows in the 80s and for her children plays.<br /><br />in the first song she was repeating an old verse from sea songs which may mean "oh god" but then it is followed with what is similarly pronounced yet means come on<br /><br />then she introduces us with the programme and its name (the weekly night) which seems to include variety of performances or selected clips.. and then she says listen to the sound of Oud, listen to the sound of flute, and the sound of Tar (which is the local open drum we have) and the sound of guitar (as it rhymes ;p) <br /><br />the other song (1988) is for ramadan show and it is the end musical scene, she saying that i hope you all thought about it very well, and answered correctly, and when everything got right you might be called a winner, and now my friends may i say good bye :)<br /><br />i love this song for her:<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F12ptnJmHGk<br /><br />which means that the world is a garden without doors or gates, <br />we are the flowers of the beautiful life brought together like brothers and sisters<br />we are the love for the future<br />and we are the smile in the heart of present<br />we are birds birds birds, we look around during our journey <br />we read and draw and write in a magical smiling world..<br /><br />the play is called ABC (in arabic) and it is about education <br /><br />the excellent students were in a trip, and their plane got crashed in an island where lazy kids liveDeemahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08308596665343265262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693902872333225859.post-34859508959051855992010-07-01T00:57:40.421+02:002010-07-01T00:57:40.421+02:00Hi Blacklight!!
Hey, its so rare I get such a gre...Hi Blacklight!!<br /><br />Hey, its so rare I get such a great and detailed comment, I really welcome it! Finally!<br /><br />Well, I don't live in Kuwait anymore actually! I have moved to Spain. <br /><br />You raise a bunch of interesting points. <br /><br />1) Regarding Michael Moore, I totally agree that it is the capitalist system that makes his movies go round. He was actually called out on it apparently, because his film screening was done in the "Visa Screening Room" of a theatre, a totally corporate-sponsored venue. He acknowledged the irony.<br /><br />2) Regarding Kuwait: The United States and Kuwait are incomparable but if we want to talk about the application of Moore's argument in Kuwait...I completely agree with you that unfortunately, government handouts and bailouts in Kuwait have gone too far. They have made people complacent and as you say have stifled creativity, excellence and self-accomplishment. Lets not forget that a democracy is a social contract, citizens are endowed with not only rights, but deep responsibilities to the country as well. Attention on the latter has been overshadowed by short-term capture, and in the long-term its really doing Kuwait an injustice. The lack of ambition and work ethic is extremely harmful to the country's future. On a last point, I sometimes see Kuwait as "financially unsustainable", in the fact that a country with one of the highest GDPs per capita has a minimum wage of under 100 KD a month. The system as it exists now in Kuwait is a result of not only capture, but exploitation of cheap labor. You can't look at the Kuwait economic system without opening one's eyes to the fact that more than 2/3 of the labor market consists of people with absolutely no voice and little economic security. If anything, I would think that economic rights in Kuwait needs to focus on this to bring it up to international standards for high-income countries. <br /><br />What comment did I make on your blog?Victoriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15567196006173884087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693902872333225859.post-3817858100234118512010-06-30T18:16:19.326+02:002010-06-30T18:16:19.326+02:00dear Victoria
in spite of the dramatic tone in hi...dear Victoria<br /><br />in spite of the dramatic tone in his documanteries Moore opinions and ideals sound flawless specially in this issue which i prefer to call "world war 3" <br /><br />yah its a war between elties and regular people that is not happening everywhere else not just the US. <br /><br />one thing i would like to clear out and you should have noticed it since you are residing in Kuwait currently ,is the issue of economical rights and how can some people turn this noble set of legislations into a selfish abusive tool . <br /><br />An ideal economical system should protect people economically and at the same time encourage them to compete not for survival but for creativity, excellence and self accomplishment. In Kuwait people are overprotected thanks to legislations similar to the second bill of rights you mentioned in your topic that's why they became too relaxed to even think of competition . <br /><br />when it comes to the system everybody during the last economical crises blamed captilaism including Moore who is unaware that Captilism is the main reason why the US media including his works is spread worldwide.<br /><br />what happened was a human error an accident like you see in the road daily. capitalism was not meant to be perfect because the word perfect doesn't exist in our real world .you may think that a hybrid system would be better I'm afraid that's not necessarily true , here in Kuwait the government is abusing its economical control acting similar to a communist authority against people protecting the the interests of the elites granting them the benefits of a capitalist system. <br /><br />P.S<br />i remembered you when you commented in my blog a long time ago :)blacklighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11643380898148220033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693902872333225859.post-85666861772764334942010-06-01T21:40:52.108+02:002010-06-01T21:40:52.108+02:00We have seen this super movie documentary in Kuwai...We have seen this super movie documentary in Kuwait! Great story! <br />all the best in your new location, keep on writing, it is always a pleasure to read your posts<br /><br />http://artforarabs.blogspot.com/2010/01/faiza-ahmad-khan-superman-of-malegaon.htmlsarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11345382125846700249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693902872333225859.post-74697191404072379392010-05-09T22:23:35.460+02:002010-05-09T22:23:35.460+02:00and oh, i also think it would be nice if the numbe...and oh, i also think it would be nice if the numbers are fit inside the painting and look as if punched, so they have the same colour as the background ..<br /><br />hope you're having fun wherever you are!Deemahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08308596665343265262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693902872333225859.post-49304059205118506012010-05-09T22:19:40.124+02:002010-05-09T22:19:40.124+02:00hi i have a comment on the new look, it's very...hi i have a comment on the new look, it's very nice, I just thought maybe if the written orientation's font would be as the orange colour in the painting, because although the font works well with the tilted rectangle it is distracted a bit with the painting..Deemahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08308596665343265262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693902872333225859.post-66776701973234441772010-04-28T08:56:49.467+02:002010-04-28T08:56:49.467+02:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693902872333225859.post-64934143589274999852010-04-11T16:40:51.747+02:002010-04-11T16:40:51.747+02:00deema that cliche saying pretty much sums it up :P...deema that cliche saying pretty much sums it up :PVictoriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15567196006173884087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693902872333225859.post-31909565799900982102010-04-11T14:35:44.433+02:002010-04-11T14:35:44.433+02:00maybe a moral international problem is to have dua...maybe a moral international problem is to have dual lives in reality and in the internet, unfortunately in Kuwait you have all personalities can be imagined, a person with time can have a natural development of more persons. <br /><br />it is sad, but I always think of things not on a good/bad evaluation as much as to understand what can I make out of such social quality.<br /><br />a cliché saying among kuwaiti young generation is that they're living in a democratic country, and a dictatorial family.Deemahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08308596665343265262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693902872333225859.post-52785733373558772142010-04-01T08:49:01.031+02:002010-04-01T08:49:01.031+02:00thanks deema! if you have other old song recommen...thanks deema! if you have other old song recommendations let me know.Victoriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15567196006173884087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693902872333225859.post-77590309870819470782010-03-30T21:12:19.231+02:002010-03-30T21:12:19.231+02:00he's singing about a beautiful tanned girl, an...he's singing about a beautiful tanned girl, and how he's caught by love, and how her tenderness is affecting his skin.. and that longing has ordered him to follow his love and leave all his friends.. :-)Deemahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08308596665343265262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693902872333225859.post-71487996179648390752010-03-28T12:11:49.529+02:002010-03-28T12:11:49.529+02:00Shafiq, I agree with you too. in part because of t...Shafiq, I agree with you too. in part because of the EU's fault, there is too much sensitivity attached to the fact that they choose not to teach arabic...its just a logistical problem, as you say. nothing personal! i thought it DOES highlight however, spain's overall stagnation when it comes to ensure they learn second languages, be they whatever.Victoriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15567196006173884087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693902872333225859.post-71188701555733494702010-03-28T12:08:56.893+02:002010-03-28T12:08:56.893+02:00thanks! its good to be back, i was out because of...thanks! its good to be back, i was out because of too much work, but now the particles are settling.Victoriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15567196006173884087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693902872333225859.post-5342155629329431712010-03-28T07:17:11.726+02:002010-03-28T07:17:11.726+02:00Good to have you back...
TomGood to have you back...<br /><br />TomThomas Modeenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14242434089652955470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693902872333225859.post-73334660204695052802010-03-24T15:49:36.525+01:002010-03-24T15:49:36.525+01:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693902872333225859.post-83813659110301280122010-03-12T19:52:54.241+01:002010-03-12T19:52:54.241+01:00Interesting article.
To be honest, I think the au...Interesting article.<br /><br />To be honest, I think the author is making too much of the rejection, European countries tend to teach European languages. Very rarely will you find them teaching non-European languages, partly because of an EU recommendation that requests that schoolchildren be taught two European languages in addition to the main language.<br /><br />Many schools were already annoyed at being nudged to teach two languages (the EU decided on two so that continental schools don't just teach English and forget about other languages). Anyway, the point is that schools just don't have the resources to teach non-European languages and therefore don't bother.<br /><br />I went to a school that specialises in language teaching and although they've been teaching French, German, Latin, Spanish and Italian for a long time, they only recently started teaching Mandarin and have no plans to teach Arabic as of yet. <br /><br />Let's face it, Arabic isn't the easiest language to learnAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693902872333225859.post-59296425093132247182010-01-25T18:23:28.256+01:002010-01-25T18:23:28.256+01:00hallelujah! At last someone is investing in livabl...hallelujah! At last someone is investing in livable, tasteful,culturally appropriate architecture in the Gulf... what a breath of fresh air after all the endless gated developments and hideous real estate 'mega-projects'.<br /><br />Very interesting postSophia Furberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06177157461069232672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693902872333225859.post-74784484113222656042010-01-23T16:24:53.781+01:002010-01-23T16:24:53.781+01:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com