Northern Virginia-based Elevation Burger will be opening its first Middle Eastern outlet in October in the Avenues Mall in Kuwait.Personally i never tried it, but what i make out of the website is that the produce used is more or less organic and free range which is a refreshing change; below is the official statement from the restaurant:

“This is a great step in expanding the Elevation Burger vision internationally and ideally more and more of our locations will be developed in projects like The Avenues,” said Hans Hess, founder of Elevation Burger. “We’ve received interest from entrepreneurs in other Middle Eastern countries, so we anticipate expansion elsewhere in the region in the very near future.”

Elevation Burger

The Sidekick Academy are excited about starting our special kids program. Kids learn basics of self defense and athletic coordination, all in a safe and fun environment. Classes run every Sunday & Tuesday as listed below:

* Ages 5~8 years old, classes from 5:00-5:45 p.m.
* Ages 9~13 years old, classes from 5:45-6:30 p.m.

Visit the website for detailed information about our academy and our training programs:

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“46) Sheikh Fahid Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

The president of the Kuwaiti Football Association was at the centre of one of the tournament’s most farcical moments when he rushed on to the pitch in Valladolid to argue with the referee during his country’s 4-1 group spanking by France at the 1982 World Cup.

The Sheikh took issue with what the Kuwaitis saw as an offside goal and at one point appeared to beckon his players off the pitch. The referee crumbled and disallowed the goal, but the incident made little difference in the grand scheme of things as the Arab side went home with just a point from the group stage.”

Via dailymail [Link]

thanks Omar

eydaam is a restaurant based on Kuwaiti food and their kind owners have sent us a few items from there menu to try out and we have one thing to say: we in the 4thringroad diwaniya LOVE THEIR MORABYAN!!!! they sent us an assortment of items from there menu which we all liked however one thing stood out and got addicted to which is their morabyan.

There are a lot of restaurants in Kuwait based on Kuwaiti dishes who offer items like machboos diyay, machboos la7am, morabyan, harees, jareesh, emawash, baryani (indian), etc… and most of them lack neatness, cleanliness and presentation. The good owners of eydaam have taken the concept one step further and provided the ideal package to send our lovely Kuwaiti traditional food to your home in a very creative box which includes three cups consisting of a salad, maabooch and dackoos as you can see below:

We highly recommend our readers who like traditional Kuwaiti food to try out eydaam. They are located in Al-Adailiya area and here are there contacts: 22531316 or 22529948.

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Do you remember back in the day when KTV used to play the national anthem at  midnight and in the early morning when the channel starts airing, i wonder why they stopped that… i know that channels today are twenty four hours but that still doesn’t justify not airing the national anthem, i really hope they do bring that long lost tradition back because when i remember the times the national anthem was played with the waiving flag and the picture of the late Amir Jaber Al Ahmed it gives you that sense of pride and patriotism and a general “feel good” feeling singing the national anthem along with the tune….hopefully someone will read the post, do something about it, bring us back our national anthem and play it to us everyday!

All of you already know about the proposed ban on Blackberry services in Kuwait. The furore started a few days ago when the idea was announced, the Telecoms companies were supposedly told to either give alternatives or they would be forced to stop giving the service.

The ministry’s reason is that they cannot monitor or regulate the messages sent through the BBM service. They fear that the BBM could pose a threat to national security. Now I can’t really fault them for trying to make us sleep safely each night but to be honest with you I’m not really convinced it would solve the problem. What about other internet chatting services such as MSN messenger and WhatsApp? Don’t they also allow the forwarding of potentially dangerous messages? Since most phones are now connected to the internet then these chatting services can be easily installed right?

Let’s assume that Blackberry’s are banned, I would easily replace my Blackberry with any other smartphone and install MSN messenger, was the ministry successful in preventing me from receiving what is considered unsafe messages? I don’t think so. I think that if the aforementioned unsafe message have reached its target audience then the damage is already done, what’s the point of regulating or monitoring the conversations if the message was already distributed? Deterrence? I’m not really convinced.

Are they being overprotective? Definitely
Did they really think this through? I doubt it

What do you guys think??

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There is a rumor circling around in Kuwait that Ebraheem Dabdoob the CEO of the National bank of Kuwait is going to submit his resignation due to a conflict with one of the board members ?

Update: CNBC confirmed that’s it is a rumor

thanks saleh

Via Fereej

We would first like to first thank Omar from Diwaniya Labs for providing us with the opportunity to review their recent application, iKout. iKout was recently released in the App Store.  As the name implies, iKout, derived from the word, “Kout Bo Sita” is the most well known card game played in the diwaniya. After reviewing the application we really liked the execution, especially the graphics and sound effects. The voice over is a mix of English words with a Kuwaiti accent and some slang words some people use in the diwanya. This definitely was an added value to the game.  By using the english words, we got the impression that the developer is looking forward to expand this game to the whole world. We salute him for this move.

The Good:

- Nice Graphics
-Fun Sound Effects
-Wifi Support for Multiplayers (although we have not tested it yet)
-Score History
-Works with the iPad, iPhone & iPod Touch.

The Bad:

- Distribution of cards is a bit slow, it would be great if there was a skip button which distributes all of the cards immediately
- Inability to play with other users online.

You can download the application directly from the Store for $2.99. [Link]

نادي الكويت يحتل المركز 102 عالميا حسب التصنيف الدولي للفيفا ويتجاوز نادي توتنهام بمركز والقادسية 226 وكاظمة 350 على مستوي العالم

Update: to see the full list click [here]

thanks Omar

Via Sraay News

Wings’ grand opening is today. Wings offer exquisite Turkish Kiftans and home accessories.  The shop is open from 10 am to 1 pm, and later in the evening from 5 pm to 8 pm. The shop is located in Shuwaikh Industrial Area in Al-Humaithi Complex next Tilal Shopping Center and Home Center.

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Zain has organized for the 7th year an exhibition for its customers. The exhibition was named ZAIN CITY for this year. Basically Zain city gathered 36 distributors and put them in one place. Lots of exciting offers and promotions were available for Zain’s customers. If you haven’t visited the wonderful city, you can go now to Kuwait fair grounds in Mishref and benefit from their offers.

and on a another note…

I was in the exhibition 2days ago and saw things that shocked me, if it’s a ZAIN event why am I seeing VIVA flyers on the floor? After asking about how come VIVA is here when its a ZAIN event? Well after asking around I got this as a conclusion. Viva representatives went to Zain city and distributed flyers containing their offers to Zain’s distributers and they asked them to join them in promoting their products and service. The cheap stunt does not end there but they even placed the flyers on the cars parked near Zain city (Mishref International Fair Grounds). The only reason I can think of that made VIVA do such a cheap stunt is that they are desperate. Yes you read it right, VIVA is desperate for customers and their cheap actions prove it. Kuwait is not used to such cheap business stunts and I strongly suggest that Kuwait Parliament’ Committee, thawaher al da5elah, look into what happened and stop those cheap stunts.

What do you guys think?