NASAIR REWARDING FOLLOWERS WITH A FREE ROUND TRIP FLIGHT Riyadh, June 21 2011: nasair, the low fare airline based in Saudi Arabia, today announced its first Social Media campaign in the region, giving the followers of its official twitter handle (@nasair) the opportunity to win a round trip flight to any of their 26 destinations [...]

A 24-year-old British woman named Louise Pollard recently agreed to act a surrogate mother on behalf of Omar bin Laden, who is one of Osama bin Laden’s estimated 20 children, and Omar’s wife Zaina. But now Pollard, giving a tell-all interview to the local Bristol Evening Post, has a surprise announcement: She’s not just carrying Osama bin [...]

Vanity Fair’s Maureen Dowd traveled to Saudi Arabia to experience first-hand the Arab kingdom’s newly declared commitment to tourism. But apparently she didn’t get the memo—that promise seems to only apply to men. Saudi Arabia! Just the vacation spot for a headstrong, adventure-loving, cocktail-imbibing, fashion-conscious chick. Long averse to non-Muslim curiosity seekers, the Kingdom is [...]

The United Arab Emirates, long regarded as one of the most business friendly economies in the Middle East, announced Sunday that starting in October it will prevent BlackBerry owners from sending and receiving e-mail and other messages and browsing the Internet because the security-minded government cannot adequately monitor those features on the popular electronic devices. “Today’s [...]