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Qatar shops told to print bills, receipts in Arabic

July 8, 2010
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Qatar’s shops have been given six months to start printing bills and receipts in Arabic beside English.  The move to have major shopping centres to issue purchase bills to customers with the names and prices of the items written in Arabic as well as English is to help older citizens and people who cannot...
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Qatar Airways to fly 35 times weekly to Germany

July 8, 2010
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Qatar Airways will increase its weekly flights to Germany from 21 to 35 following an agreement between the Qatar Civil Aviation Authority (QCAA) and the German Civil Aviation Authority (Luftfahrt Bundesamt). “The agreement was reached following some amendments to the previous air transport agreement signed by both parties in November 1996,” an official said,...
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Divorce rate in Kuwait up by 4.4% as study blames extra benefits for divorcees

July 8, 2010
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A study on the increase of divorce rates in Kuwait has concluded that a major cause was the extra benefits received by divorcees. Under Kuwaiti civil legislation, Kuwaiti divorcees are able to claim a car, a housemaid and a chauffeur, as well as alimony and housing payments from their former husbands. The study, by...
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Born August 3, 1960 in Monastir, Tunisia
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Media career:
  • ABC News (Tunisia)
  • Bahrain Tribune
  • Gulf News
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  • University of Bahrain
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  • MA  Mass Communications, University of Leicester
  • BA  in English & US literature and studies, University of Tunis

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