Kuwaiti Married Men Go Bare-Handed

Why Kuwaiti married men tend to not wear their wedding bands; On World Suicide Prevention Day - a regional focus; Israel might have to make more of an effort with its neighbors in-flux; And why we should mark 9/11 with particular poignancy, says a Muscat Muslim voice.

Kuwaiti married men more often than not will sport ring-free hands.

Crazy Yet Wise [2]

Kuwaiti Men & THE Wedding Ring

She definitely means 'bond' not 'bondage' in this case (ed). Considering Kuwaiti men's apparent aversion to rings: maybe their fingers are slimmer than the rest? You might find a 'masbahah' or worry beads in the hands of a male Kuwaiti, but apparently rings on their fingers are harder to come by. "I waited a long time to write about this subject, thought I can win at the end but it seems that I’m losing or have already lost. The thing is, ever since I got married I wanted to change this thing with Kuwaiti men & let my husband be one of those unique ones but i failed. I wanted him to wear his wedding ring all the time, whenever we go out, it has to be on his finger. He only wore it when we first got married (melcha time), then we traveled to our honeymoon & he surprised me when he wore it to the airport & kept wearing it everytime we went out in Malaysia, when I myself didn’t take my wedding ring with me coz if it got lost i’d lose my mind."

Chez Chiara [3]

World Suicide Prevention Day- MENA

"One of my favourite "cocktail party" conversations involves discussion of mental health issues with those who deny them, and the efficacy of treatment, then ask for advice and recommendations in diverse covert ways. I am not being facetious in this. These conversations have made me realize that I can be helpful, in a semi-professional manner, to people reluctant to seek professional care--at least for the time being. They have also enlightened and modified my professional understanding of mental health and mental health care delivery."

Palestine Free Voice [4]

Israel's hell has begun

"The latest dignity-inspiring reflexes against Israel by the Turkish government and Egyptian protestors is undoubtedly a heartening, good news for hundreds of millions of people around the world who over many decades watched rather helplessly a manifestly criminal Israel torment, humiliate and murder innocent Arabs and Muslims in the tens of thousands."

Dhofari Gucci [5]

9/11 .... Ten Years Later.

A good outline of why such acts as this one, of terror, stand out. So should other 'human acts' perpetrated against innocent civilians. (Sabra and Shatila, Lebanon's Summer War 2006; Gaza, over and over, Chechnyan war victims and Russian child terror victims, the former Yugoslavia genocides and massacres in the 90s...) The truth is, 9/11 does stand out because the victims were not aware their country was even in a state of war. and against which 'enemy' until this point. "It's 8 a.m. Dhofari Gucci is sipping her morning cup of coffee and looking out at the end of the monsoon drizzle in Salalah. I live thousands of miles away from the United States, and it should be a normal morning for someone like me, but it's not. Ten years ago, a series of coordinated suicide attacks killed 2977 human beings and led to the collapse of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. Will the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami that killed 230,000 people remain stuck in my memory forever? What about the Japan earthquakes that killed 16,000 people and wiped out entire villages and towns? Yes and no. I believe it's easier to 'accept' natural disasters and mourn the death of victims because natural disasters are exactly that. There is more closure because it ws an act of God. As for incidents like the Holocaust or 9/11 or the 2011 Norway murderer that killed mostly teenagers, I find them hard to even begin to accept or forget because they were acts of hate. Humans killing humans is something I will never understand."