Now here's a worthwhile cause.

sex (+ hijab, muslim, arab) is one of our top keywords as well.

Certainly I would start writing about sex here if I really wanted more ad revenue.

Yes, it's kind of sad isn't it?

We pour all this effort into writing learned and erudite essays and debate, but all people really want - and I take these from the most recent referrals to my blog - are:

mischievous booty
dubai fanny
dubai women night clubs
hijab sex blogspot
thoughts in men in bikinis
germany nuns prositutes [!!!!]
whore dubai
beyonce's jiggling booty
arab girls panty
etihad cabin crew looking for sex

It's almost deserving of a post of its own.

mischievous booty
dubai fanny
dubai women night clubs
hijab sex blogspot
thoughts in men in bikinis
germany nuns prositutes [!!!!]
whore dubai
beyonce's jiggling booty
arab girls panty
etihad cabin crew looking for sex

It reads like a poem

SD,

Blocking blogs is so silly - the blogger(s) can just change the URL.

I wonder if "giving a bad name to the UAE" doesn't actually mean "giving a bad name to UAE men", since they don't come across too well on the blog. Wouldn't be surprised if one of the guys the two women ridiculed recognized himself on their blog & went on a vendetta to have it blocked ...

Oh well: "Sex & Dubai - Soon at a new location near you!"

--MSK*

I think the "giving a bad name to the UAE" is actually a reference to the awful writing on that site... (plus the bolding of the horrible puns) I've read better sex writing in erectile drug spam.

Someone bring back bint al-shaitan!

Why bother with a petition? Having seen that site numerous times, I've always suspected that neither girl is actually Arab anyway (well, maybe Lebanese). Seems like a mockery.

Jill,

You'd be surprised about Arab women. And why single out Lebanese? I am always amused at the stereotype of "all sex all the time" that Lebanese women get. Don't judge the book by ... Ho-Tana videos.

In Blogostan, anything is possible. But who cares if the writer(s) is an Arab woman, a non-Arab woman, or a guy?

--MSK*

My impression has generally been that they are either:

(1) Arab girls who went to a western/expat school (which would imply if their fathers were UAE nationals then their mothers were probably Lebanese/European or something, such girls tend to have a bit more freedom as a rule, possibly because their fathers were more "open" in the first place in marrying non-national wives)

(2) One Arab, one non-Arab

(3) Western (British or Canadian) girl writing the blog on behalf of someone else, or based on someone else's stories

Whatever the case, it is a fun read and I wish them both well.

What? Not arab girls? Why because their english is proper? Hahahaha I gew up in Dubai from the age of 13 onward. Let me tell you whether egyptian, lebanese, kuwaiti or emirati it's perfectly plausible these girls are exactly what they claim: arabs.

Mim - it's not so much them not being Arab (they may well be), nor really about language. Are there a significant number of Emirati girls who would enjoy this degree of social freedom? I genuinely don't know. I had assumed there would be few if any, and much less that they would risk writing about it. But if you know otherwise, then obviously us doubters are wrong!

I think it's also because the blog is written to a certain style in terms of writing and content that it creates a sense of "persona". This is something that I think most bloggers do at one time or another, whether consciously or unconsciously. There are times I have read back an old blog entry and thought: that really wasn't *me*. Not so much that it was deliberately deceptive/pretentious/fake (though I have plenty of gruesomely pretentious posts that I itch to delete from living memory) just that I clearly was adopting some kind of persona for whatever mood/reason at the time.

Having taken a look at the site, let me respond to Mirri:

In fact, my read is that they are expats, and not Emiratis (nor Arabs 'native' to the region). Their use of language overall just does not read... well like yours. Proper English is not the issue, mastery of certain stylistic turns of phrase etc. lead me to doubt.

But then our own Bint undermines this obs, but playing the odds....

Dear all,

I really don't see a point in trying to figure out whether Sex and Dubai is written by two Arab women, two non-Arab women, or a Japanese monk.

Could be this, could be that.

Whatever.

--MSK*

Speculation, my dear faqih in spirit, is fun.

Actually putting effort into it of course would be silly, but sharing one's gut read isn't wrong (so long as one is careful not to be too categorical after all).