Passport Index 2017: UAE has the Strongest Arab Passport

The Global Passport Power Rank 2017 list is out and the United Arab Emirates was ranked the strongest Arab passport in 28th spot with a visa-free score of 122. This means that UAE citizens are able to travel to 122 destinations without needing a visa. Kuwait came second in terms of Arab countries followed by Qatar and Bahrain . Saudi Arabia was only ranked 60 with a visa-free score of 67. You can check out…

Tesla Launching in the UAE Next Week

Elon Musk is coming to Dubai on February 13th for Tesla's official launch event. It is reported that the company has already sent out invites for the launch at the Armani hotel in the Burj Khalifa tower and there's already a job opening for Dubai on Tesla's . Musk will also be a speaker at the World Government Summit as confirmed by The UAE’s Minister of Cabinet Affairs and the Future, Mohammed Al Gergawi. There…

Careem Launches #ProudlyMiddleEastern Hashtag

Careem kicked tweeted under the hashtag #ProudlyMiddleEastern tweeted few hours ago: "With 150,000+ Captains, 1,000+ colleagues & 6M+ users across 52 cities, we couldn't be prouder to be from the Middle East." Careem is a Dubai-based an app-based car booking service company and an Uber rival mainly in the Middle East. It is also one of the most well funded startups in the UAE. The hashtag comes in response to Trump's bigoted refugee ban even…

DCD Fire Fighters Using Jetskis & Jetpacks

Dubai's Civil Defence recently launched "Dolphin", a jetski service aimed at reducing the time needed to extinguish fires, especially when there's a heavy traffic around. The jetski comes equipped with a jetpack which the firefighter can use but I'm not really sure how useful or practical this is. It could come in handy if the fire is on a bridge but otherwise, it's pretty much useless. Nevertheless, it's pretty cool to see firefighters using jetpacks.…
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Emirati Lana Zaki Nusseibeh To Preside UN-Women Executive Board for 2017

7 years ago
Back in September 2013, Lana Nusseibeh became the first Emirati woman to be appointed as Permanent Representative of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations in New York. On Monday January 16, H.E. Ms. ...
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Qatar & the UAE Have the Fastest Broadband Internet In The Middle East [2016]

7 years ago
US-based cloud services provider Akamai published its Q3 2016 internet connectivity report which includes “data gathered from across the Akamai Intelligent Platform, covering Internet connection speeds and broadband adoption metrics across both fixed and mobile ...
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Video: Coldplay LIVE in Abu Dhabi on New Year’s Eve 2016

7 years ago
A friend of mine attended Coldplay’s epic concert in Abu Dhabi on NYE and sent me several videos which I compiled into one. A Sky Full Of Stars, Clocks, Yellow and Fix You are some ...
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UAE Launches The Food Bank

7 years ago
2017 was declared the “Year or Giving” by the President of the UAE, His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan in an attempt “to promote a culture of giving back to the community, and ...
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