Dubai Informer

The Disbursement Committee of Zakat Fund has decided to grant AED 1 million to 100 people who newly embraced Islam to encourage them learn more about the religion and start their new lives as Muslims. The newly Islam converts are one of eight categories specified by the Holy Quran and the Islamic Shari’ah to deserve [...]

Dubai Ladies Club, a member of Dubai Women Establishment, last week organized three Islamic lectures as part of a variety of activities organized by Dubai Ladies Club during the holy month of Ramadan. The lectures discussed ‘Al Taqwa’ which means Guidance on How to be a good practicing Muslim‘ and were conducted by Ahmed Al [...]

Ramadan is going to start on August 11th 2010, and here are the Ramadan Prayer timings for Dubai. Ramadan (also known as Ramazan, Ramzan, Ramadhan, Ramdan, Ramadaan) is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. It is the Islamic month of fasting, in which participating Muslims refrain from eating, drinking and sexual activities from dawn [...]

Ramadan is coming to the UAE soon. In case you are not a Muslim and not yet aware of the way you should deal with the Ramadan 2010, here a few tips for non-Muslims. What to-do and what not-to-do during Ramadan 2010: Eating and drinking in public is banned across the UAE during Ramadan, and [...]

Is the hysteria over Elena Kagan’s comments on Islamic finance misplaced fear or cynical politicking?

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The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) mystery shopper survey recorded an increase of 91 per cent in the quality of services and transactions offered to the public last May in comparison with April, while the efficiency and speed of transactions increased by 84 per cent. The employee behavior and customers’ interaction showed an increase [...]

An Arab woman is one of 11,396 motorists who have piled up more than AED 10,000 in unpaid traffic fines, police said as they launched a campaign to recover AED 100 million in penalties. She, an Arab expatriate, accumulated AED 187.000 in traffic fines over several years and is no longer in the United Arab [...]

Fragrance Foundation Arabia, the regional arm of the global fragrance industry body Fragrance Foundation US, will hold the first annual ‘FiFi’ Fragrance Award for the UAE in October. The awards were announced during the first gathering of fragrance industry professionals on Sunday, organized by Frag-rance Foundation Arabia in association with Firmenich Dubai. The business breakfast [...]

Ramadan time is approaching fast. And as we all know here in Dubai, the month of Ramadan is not based on the Gregorian calendar, it is based on the lunar calendar, also called the Islamic or Hijri calendar. So the starting day for Ramadan depends on the moon. In 2010 the Muslim’s fasting month of [...]

You probably heard the stories and seen the pictures of some ueber-rich guys in Dubai or UAE having their own leopard as a pet at home. Have you ever wondered how they get those leopards and where those wild animals come from? The Ministry of Environment and Water has confiscated a shipment consisting of 15 [...]

A Dubai court sentenced the Briton Mark Arnold to 15 years in jail on Monday for killing his South African ex-lover, Kerry Winter. They rejected defending arguments that the woman had only faked her death, her family’s lawyer said. Dubai’s Criminal Court of First Instance “found the defendant, Mark Arnold, guilty of first degree homicide [...]

The Ministry of Interior has arrested 53 infiltrators in the Sharjah industrial areas. The infiltrators, nationals of Asian countries who illegally entered the UAE, were busted at random locations by plainclothes police officers who had been running an extensive follow up and monitoring procedure, according to Major General Nasser Al Awadi Al Menhali, Acting Assistant [...]

Good Question? What will happen to you if you sell marijuana to an undercover police officer from the Criminal Investigation Unit in Dubai? And who would be so stupid to do this you ask? A plumber and an assistant mechanic got handed out a life sentence each from the Court of First Instance in Dubai [...]

Police in Ras Al Khaimah has busted an attempt for peddling 8 kilograms of opium after arresting an Asian man trying to sell four kg to a RAK Police’s anti-narcotic plain-cloth agent. The anti-narcotic personnel apprehended the Asian suspect after they set a trap for him. Lt. Colonel Mohammed bin Hamadi, Head of the Anti-narcotic [...]

An article in Gulf News recently was quite shocking. The United Arab Emirates are a Muslim Country, I bet you know this. And I remember the time when Muslim women were not allowed to wear their head-scarf in some European countries. Muslims all over the world protested against it. And I think nobody should be [...]

Last weekend the new Meydan Racecourse opened its doors for the first Dubai World Cup held there. And in typical Dubai fashion it was a big, big, bigger event. The video below shows the fantastic Meydan Racecourse opening ceremony including the fireworks. Horse racing just entered a whole new dimension we guess. Feel free to [...]

There are still no updates to the cause of the gigantic fire where a yacht burned down completely in Dubai Marina last Thursday March 18. Even though there were no injuries, it still looks more like from a James Bond movie then reality. The firefighters took only 12 minutes to reach the yacht which was [...]

Do you remember Sammy? The whale shark from the Atlantis Hotel on the Palm Jumeirah? Well, she is not in Atlantis anymore, she got released into the Arabian Gulf after her 18 months stay at the hotel. She was captured back in August 2008 off the cost of Jebel Ali and has been on display [...]

Two Emirates airlines cabin crew-members have been ordered jailed for three months in Dubai over sexually explicit text messages, the latest in a string of indecency cases against foreigners, a newspaper reported Wednesday. The pair, an Indian flight attendant and her cabin services supervisor, were convicted of “coercion to commit sin” over the messages and [...]