Can you Live in Kuwait without a Maid?

Question of the Day from Gulf Bank: Can you live in Kuwait without a maid?

Or anywhere in the region? Aren't we exerting too much pressure on ourselves to lead multi-tasked lives and look glamorous and ready at a last minute notice to attend a wedding or high profile social function (that is good for your personal and career promotion so unmissable!). Not enough staying home in pajamas, baking cakes or watering your withering plants? World-wide people are having less time for domestic duties, and in London domestic help and hired cleaning is on the increase again, long after the death of servant quarters being built into old houses. Life is adding increasing pressure on people to do a lot outside the home and more specifically to 'be' a lot, and therefore - as long as some of society has access to maids- the pressure's on for the rest to follow suit (ironed and pressed of course) (-ed) See Mr Angry Arab's link for the origins of this internet bank-campaign, vox-pop nugget.

Saudi Arabia/Bangladesh: Gladiator’s Story

While the spotlight is on Saudi for women's suffrage break-through, and the recent revoking of whip-lashing penalty for woman guilty of driving, here's a return to the topic of migrant workers: "American Bedu is pleased to give readers a glimpse into the life of Gladiator. Of course Gladiator is a pseudonym in order to protect the identity of this expatriate. Gladiator has promised to speak very candidly with American Bedu on what it feels like to come to Saudi Arabia as a laborer and what kind of prejudice or racism he has felt. I have chosen to leave Gladiator’s responses exactly as I have received them from him."