Jezebel: Abu Dhabi

Know Your Veils: A Guide To Head Coverings

Anne Peterson — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:09:00 EST

Next time you are having dinner with a Bahraini dignitary, don't embarrass yourself by confusing the Queen's abaya with a burqa. More »

Abu Dhabi Hotel "Regrets" $11 Million Christmas Tree

Margaret Hartmann — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:26:00 EST

Abu Dhabi's Emirates Palace hotel apologized for "attempts to overload" on Christmas cheer by erecting a 43-foot tree adorned with gold and jewels. But when a hotel has a gold-bar vending machine in the lobby, excess is relative. More »

Abu Dhabi Jails 14-Year-Old For "Consensual Sex"

Irin Carmon — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:50:01 EDT

A fourteen-year-old Brazilian girl living in Abu Dhabi has been sentenced to six months prison and deportation after a judge ruled that she could not have been raped by a 28-year-old year-old — because she let him into her apartment. More »

The Lobby For Abu Dhabi: An Essay By Carrie Bradshaw

Sara Yasin — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:30:00 EDT

Recently, Ms. Bradshaw traveled to the Emirates for a glamorous vacation with a few pals. Here, she recounts her thoughts about her time in Abu Dhabi. More »

"Lawrence Of My Labia" And The Whiteness Of Summer Blockbusters

Irin Carmon — Thu, 27 May 2010 15:00:00 EDT

This summer's blockbusters overwhelmingly feature white actors, a stark effect even by Hollywood standards. Relatedly, another big tent movie, Sex And The City 2, is defending itself against charges of cultural insensitivity. But seriously, people. We know hijabs are hilarious. More »

Watching SATC2 Live: Our Minute-By-Minute Analysis

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 27 May 2010 10:00:00 EDT

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It's a monumental day in women's history! We're coming to you from a 10am showing, where we are live-blogging our insights into the movie's magical minutiae. Remember this moment, because it's the moment at which dreams came true. More »

How The Sex And The City 2's Harem Pants Ended Up In Abu Dhabi

Irin Carmon — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:40:00 EDT

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Why is Sex And The City 2 set in banal Abu Dhabi but shot in Morocco? Now we know: international sexual mores, intra-Emirates drama and the narrative need for both luxury shopping and Lawrence of Arabia imagery. Mystery solved! [ABCNews] More »

New Sex & The City Trailer: Arabian Nights Redux

Irin Carmon — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:00:00 EDT

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The time has come. As we approach the May 27 release date, actual plot details are being revealed from the second coming of the greatest film event of womankind. (How did they miss the Easter tie-in?) We close-read accordingly. More »

Awesome Saudi Poet Lambastes Clerics On State-Run TV

Jenna Sauers — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:40:00 EDT

Hissa Hilal, a Saudi housewife and a contestant in an American-Idol-style poetry competition, read an incendiary 15-verse poem that criticized clerics who issue ever-more-restrictive fatwas, and referred to clerics as monsters "wearing death as a robe, cinched with a belt." More »

Let The Games Begin

Anna Holmes — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:10:00 EST

[Abu Dhabi, December 9. Image via Getty.]

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Anna Holmes — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:10:00 EDT

[Abu Dhabi, October 30. Image via Getty]

Loose Lips

Maria — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:40:00 EDT

Whoa! Nikki Blonksy, star of Hairspray, and her father were arrested Wednesday for beating up a woman at an airport in Turks and Caicos over a seat in the airport terminal. ANTM's Bianca Golden (9th cycle) was also involved in the fight somehow. • Pam Anderson is building an eco-friendly hotel in Abu Dhabi where the royal family personally asked her to start a hotel there. Good! We hear they don't have enough Western celebrity-endorsed, over-the-top projects going on in the UAE. • 21-year-old rapper, ~~Lil~~ Bow Wow, is planning on early retirement from rap (don't hear anyone crying salty tears over that musical loss) and plans on pursuing acting so he can be "the next Will Smith." [Us, Perez Hilton, People] More »

A League's Fixed Game, A Nation's Lost Innocence

Moe — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:30:00 EDT

Okay, I realize I'm taking a wild gamble here, but this is Mike Bibby. Of all the dreamboats on the 2002 Sacramento Kings he was the dreamiest, although I'll always carry a torch for Vlade Divac and Bobby Jackson also rules... anyway, so. Everyone hearts the Sacramento Kings this year. Moreover, everyone hates the Lakers. (Except Lakers fans, but they don't count.) And the Kings are winning the Western Conference Finals, which in those days de facto meant winning the championship, but the refs keep fucking things up, launching new waves of conspiracy theorizing among anyone who actually still watched professional basketball. Anyway, and then Game 6 happened, and Mike Bibby got a huge bloody nose from Kobe Bryant, and the refs called a foul...on Bibby...and yeah, well if that wasn't just a harbinger of things to come! (That and the 2000 election, but you know.) Ralph Nader called for an official investigation. I drowned my sorrows in 2 a.m. World Cup beers. And today, a few thousand days and a few hundred million dollars short for the NBA, it turns out Game 6 was, indeed, probably fixed, so you can dedicate tonight's beer to David Stern. Him and George "Man of Peace" Bush, Hugo "Black Power" Chavez, Abu Dhabi and the really dumb thing EMILY's List stands for with me and Megan after the jump. More »