The Gamboo3a Revolution ظاهرة القمبوعة

Khaleejia said: After long debate on the blog about Emarati / khaleeji shayla wrap styles (so-called "Camel Hamps' old post ), we think  this video will be a good news for many of Khaleejia's life readers - haters of the"camel humps".

Cultural Iftars with Emiratis in Dubai

Khaleejia said: The Sheikh Mohammed Centre for Cultural Understanding is a non-profit organization established to increase awareness and understanding between the various cultures that  live in Dubai. Operating under the banner o f “Open Doors. Open Minds.” the SMCCU strives to remove barriers between people of different nationalities and raise awareness of the local culture,customs and religion of the United Arab Emirates.

Aisha Abdullah, the author of Khaleejia's Life is official volunteer at Sheikh Mohammad Center of Cultural Understanding invites you to join "Cultural Iftar with Emiratis" during the Holy month of Ramadan where you can learn & ask more about Islam, Culture, Traditions of GCC and UAE particularly  in the nice and friendly atmosphere at the Cultural Center in historical Bastakia, Dubai. The programm starts from 11 July. For more information please visit www.cultures.ae or ask directly us on khaleejia.blogspot.com our facebook page facebook.com/khaleejiaslife ; email: khaleejia@hotmail.com or by phone +971 4 353 6666

Beyonce visited the Sheikh Mohammed Centre and Jumeirah Mosque when she was last in Dubai, as featured in her new 'I am...World Tour' video

Iftar in 2012 how was it...video:

"الفلم القطري "النظره - Qatari shababi film.

Get your popcorn and enjoy!

















Khaleejia said: hope you enjoyed :)

Wedding parties in the Khaleej (video)

Khaleejia said:I want to share some videos from serials with wedding party event. I tried to chose the cutest khaleeji style wedding videos. I hope you will enjoy watching them.

Abu Dhabi - The Beginning Part 2/2 فيلم وثائقي إماراتي نادر

Khaleejia said:

Part2
A very rare movie about the beginning of the development of the country - the United Arab Emirates.The movie talks about the U.A.E. history of it's origins and the the founder and ruler of the country Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan.



فيلم وثائقي نادر عن دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة ، في الفيديو سنعرف عن حياة الإمارات في الماضي وتاريخها والتطور وأيضا سنرى حاكم العرب الشيخ زايد بن سلطان آل نهيان.

Abu Dhabi - The Beginning Part 1/2 فيلم وثائقي إماراتي نادر

Khaleejia said:

A very rare movie about the beginning of the development of the country - the United Arab Emirates.The movie talks about the U.A.E. history of it's origins and the the founder and ruler of the country Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan.


فيلم وثائقي نادر عن دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة ، في الفيديو سنعرف عن حياة الإمارات في الماضي وتاريخها والتطور وأيضا سنرى حاكم العرب الشيخ زايد بن سلطان آل نهيان.

"ONCE" an eMIRATi Girl was looking for LOVE

Khaleejia said: Recently, at night  switching the tv channels I came across a strange movie. , it seemed so unusual as it was not a show, a documentary movie or  a soup opera. It was a movie (shortie)... about modern Emirati girl - a teenager. 
synopsis: Two girlfriends (they are all emirati) sitting in a cafe inside the moll and discussing their problems.."girly problems" .. and suddenly  one of them shoooooocked me! "OMG! what had i just heard?? Ok, come down and keep watching",-I said to myself... and it was after i had something like "OMG! What ve i just seen?" heh... Well... may be  because I did not expect to hear and see that stuff  from the screen!  Finaly i liked it somehow. 


Yeah it is short film, but there are many things to impress.

Here is the 
SYNOPSIS
The film revolves around the day Hamda, a young Arab teenager, plans to meet her boyfriend Saeed for the first time. The film shows the journey Hamda goes through to see Saeed for half an hour. The journey shows Hamda's best friend Amna covering for her, Hamda lying to her father, Hamda going to the hair salon transforming herself from a young girl into a beautiful young woman and then traveling to her date with the excitement of meeting and fear of getting caught. Hamda thrives on excitement yet knows the big risk she is taking by seeing Saeed for the first time. Hamda and Saeed get to meet, however not all goes to plan.

Better if you  watch this movie yourself. I can only say one thing, Nayla Al Khaja- an Emirati Writer / Director / Producer, is becoming more and more controversial director. she raises social issues of the Emirati/ Arab/ Gulf society. Many criticize her for it, but I think that if society is to hide their ailments, they will just rot  becoming worse and worse. Please leave here your opinion and comments on the fav. parts of the movie  after watching it ..Thank you!

يوم التراث العالمي في دبي للإعلام

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Khaleejia said: nice video about  heritage day in Dubai media .

Amal Salem-sama dubai presenter

Khaleejia said: i made these both videos- cuts from "al-mrsa" and layali romadan programs aired on sama dubai 2010 . i hope you will enjoy more. She is talented, modest and very pretty. Also i like her taste and how she presents herself on tv with self-esteem.  Now you can watch her on Sama Dubai while some time ago she was as presenter on nojoom4 or noor dubai channel (actually i don’t remember well) ,and there she was receiving some greeting massages and calls from people and introducing songs and poems. As it was not the first country channel she was not so serious there and looked more pretty smiling all the time.  this .gif picture i made from that program.


Now her popularity is growing and i believe she will be one of the most successful among women TV presenters on emarati channels.

on this video you can see her in “Layali Ramadan” program where she is dressed in the best for Eid abayat.
         

NiQab FroM ShaYLA my video tutorial

Khaleejia said:
hala walla to aaaaalllll my lovely, the most talented, bUAEtiful and happiest readers=friends!
SO it's my great pleasure to introduce you the way how a shayla can be wrapped as a niqab)) to cover the face (except the eyes)  ya-ni in the nicest way)) i did this video as one of you kindly asked it on facebook))
 by the way, just to let you know, i work on almost all of your requests (some of you can testify this is so) but unfortunately not as fast as you would like it.  but the problem is that i have ONLY 2 hands and 1 head to run all my life things)) and  i didn't mention that this year i entered University to become a professional in IT)) and i got Math and Physics head storm daily)) hehe)) Anyway i am still with you inshallah !

my soul missing you,and dedicates this colorful poem for you!

سلام العشق وأعماقه يضم القلب وأشواقه//greetings of the love and its depths hugging the heart and its longings
تجيك الروح مشتاقه وتهديك القصيد ألوان//my soul comes to you missing you,and dedicates a color of poems
على درب الهوى جينا من أول ما تلاقينا//we came on the path of passion since the first time we met
تغير كل ما فينا وعشنا فرحة الأزمان//everything in us has changed and we lived the joy of lifetimes
عرفنا الحب وأسراره كتبنا أجمل أشعاره //we experienced the love and its secret,we wrote all of his most beautiful stanzas
وغنينا على أوتاره وذبنا بالغرام ألحان//and we sang on his cords and we melted like tones in love
نسينا كل مواجعنا وبقينا اثنين ما معنا//we forgot all of our sorrows and we remain together with no body
سوى الأشواق تجمعنا بلا هجر وبلا حرمان//but longings that gather us together without leaving or deprivation
ألا يا حبي السامي لقيتك بأول أيامي//oh my presious love i met you in my early days
تعال وجدد أحلامي ترى قلب الهوى سهران//come and refresh my dreams you will find the heart of love still awakened
شربت الحب من كاسك وطعم الورد بانفاسك//i drunk the love from your glass and the taste of roses was  in your breath
لأنك عذب باحساسك وانا مغرم بك وولهان//because you're delicious with your emotions and i'm deeply in love with you 
حبيبي كان ما تدري ترى حبك بدا يسري //My darling if you don't know i tell you, your love started  running
بدمي وانت يا عمري سكنت بداخل الشريان//in my blood and you,oh my love,are  living in my veins
قطعنا الحب ودروبه وصغنا روعة اسلوبه //we crossed the love and all  its ways and drafted its Magnificent way of doing
حكاية عشق مكتوبه وصرنا للهوى عنوان// a story about love  has been written and we became love’s address (to be visited by love).

Emirati Evening dresses

Khaleejia said: Here's a nice video with evening dresses. The colourful dresses  can be worn by female guests for a  wedding party. Green dresses can be worn by the bride for laylat al henna.  The last dress is a wedding dress :)

Abaya fashion show videos

Khaleejia said:

I wanna see these films!!!!!!

Khaleejia said: A very positive film about fashion, Gulf women, keeping  traditions alive but progressing with the rest of the world at the same time. I want to see that film!!!!





Finding Mr. & Mrs. Right: Dubai Style  is another film I"d like to watch

Miyaw Miyaw - Short Cartoon Series LOOOOOOOOL

Khaleejia said:Miyaw Miyaw is a short cartoon series made by creators of a popular Shabiat Al Cartoon (you can recognize the voices and the graphic animation)  Miyaw Miyaw was shown on Sama Dubai TV during Ramadan 2007. Each episode lasts about one minute and ends with a quiz for attentive viewers. It's in Arabic...

You can watch here http://www.dubaimedia.ae/Media/view/54696  Enjoy adventures of the cats!

Shopping in Dubai

Khaleejia said: A wonderful program about shopping in Dubai.

Shopping and spending time at the malls is a very popular activity with many people in the UAE. I love it too for sure!  In this country  where the weather is unbearably hot half of the year shopping malls present good conditions for spending time "outside" of the house :)  Although still in-doors there's a lot of space for walking -can you believe some people jog in the malls in the mornings? :)  Dubai Mall has a skating rink and aquarium, in the Mall of the Emirates you can go skiing. Ibn Battuta Mall has a beautiful interior design and museum expositions. Several malls have cinema. All malls have a variety of coffee shops, fast food and quality restaurants with world most famous cuisines.  Children enjoy going to the Malls too - pop-corn, ice-cream, sweets and playgrounds :)

Emirati Women Today (watch on line)

Khaleejia said:  "Emirati"- a TV show I wrote already about  made an episode dedicated to the role of women in modern Emirati society. I really enjoyed this episode. I believe this the way it should be- Muslim women should be an active member of the society. They  should be free to choose their career and path in life, pursue their dreams.   A woman should  have this choice: dedicate herself to family only or balance both family and career in her life or maybe some women will prefer only work- this is all an individual choice and every woman should be given this opportunity to choose for herself.

While there's been a big progress in the UAE there are still many things to be done for women (like more ladies clubs for example lol)

EMIRATI- Watch a TV Show ON-LINE! :)

Khaleejia said: I'm happy to introduce you a wonderful  program about Emirati culture - "Emirati" on DubaiOne  TV channel. The program is in English and you can watch it on-line!!!!!

"Emirati" talks about culture and traditions, lifestyle of Emirati people. You can watch all epsiodes of the program here: Emirati ON LINE

Below is one of my favourite episodes about traditional clothes (dishdasha/kandura for men and abaya and jalabia for women), Arabic perfumes, bukhur, golden jewellery.  Enjoy!! 

* don't forget to let me know if you liked it please :)  I love it :))

Another Cool Emirati Cartoon!!! "Khoosa Boosa" خوصه بوصه

Khaleejia said: Khoosa Boosa is an old game Khaleeji children played in the past. And it's the name of a new 3-D cartoon about Emirati lifestyle!
Khoosa Boosa is a new cartoon shown on Sama Dubai this Ramadan. It's about Emirati lifestyle! Everything in the cartoon is exactly how it is in real life of average UAE locals! And that's why it maybe difficult to understand for people outside Emirati society... nevertheless some things can be understood without translation and explanation:)

Enjoy the cartoon!







And there's even one more new cartoon consisting of short parts about health and healthy life style in Khaleeji families :)

watch it AL-AAN (now)!

Khaleejia said:
If somebody live without arabic channels thats no problem but what if you suffering without them,i know..how it can be.. far from arab countries you just looking for a single chance to watch favorite programms or may be just listen to arabic speech or watch muslim faces... if so... enjoy watching this emirati (Al-Ain) TV channel Al-aan online, there are plenty of nice programms,fashion and local news, may be all that you could need from emirati tv channel.
http://www.alaan.tv/
alaantube channel on YOUTUBE
like this last report from sheilah&abaya fashion show in Dubai!