Kuwaiti Female Shooter Should Score Hits at London Olympics

Kuwaiti Maryam Erzouqi is her native Kuwait's first place shooter to compete in the 2012 London Olympics after placing third for the general standings at the Asian qualifiers. The Kuwaiti shooting team director Mohammad Al-Ghorba has high hopes that other female nationals will qualify to compete as well.

Honor killings have always been a topic of choice for this Jordan-based American blogger. Yet, the topic takes an unfortunates turn as it focuses on Turkey's first homophobic honor killing. Although quite a bit of time has elapsed since the Turkish young man in question was murdered by his father for being gay, the story has been dug up again with the release of the Turkish film, "Zenne" that has a character based on the man's tragic story.

As if it wasn't hard enough for people living in Gaza, Western Union has started eliminating its services in the troubled area. Previously having avoided Israeli and US monitoring of transactions, the company has decided to stop its services to prevent so-called "money laundering".

"The currency wire service enabled residents to avoid lengthy bank transfer procedures, and the monitoring of transactions by Israel and the US, experts said on Saturday."

Looking back on the high standard of Arab beauty, we focus on someone taking a jab at beauty-maker Photoshop. Paralleling Photoshop with beauty cream ads is not a particularly new joke, but it is one that remains hilarious nonetheless. One video takes a page from the trashy beauty advertisements a la L'Oreal and Maybelline that we have grown accustomed to on our television screens, to parody the image-altering program. After all, it seems that most publications do take it too far, making certain celebrities unrecognizable.

"Maybe she's born with it. Err, no, I'm pretty sure it's Fotoshop."

Bloggers are an ever-expanding community. And there is no lack of abundance of people who think they know a thing or two about fashion. But how do you know that you've become a "real" fashion blogger? This style-savvy Lebanese blogger shares the Independent Fashion Bloggers' new list of 20 signs that you've "made it" and highlights the things that apply to her.

"Forget new purchases, you shop your closet better than Barney’s when you need a new outfit post."