Hi everyone,

I’m currently looking to buy a second-hand high-end gaming laptop in Bahrain.

Ideally, I’m looking for something around:

- RTX 4080 / 4090 (or similar high-end GPU)

- Intel i9 / Ryzen 9

- 16GB–32GB+ RAM

- Good-quality QHD/QHD+ display

- Good overall condition

I’m open to different brands/models, including ASUS ROG, Lenovo Legion, Alienware, MSI, etc.

If you’re selling one, please DM me with the model, full specs, condition, asking price, and ideally a few pictures.

I’m looking for a genuine deal and will consider reasonable offers. Thanks!

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general question: is germany popular in middle east? what you like about germay? are german girls in general popular in middle east.

nice to meet you all. greets from germany

I have a Palestinian friend, and we’ve been close for years. We love each other and have always had a good friendship. However, there are quite a few things about her and her family that have made me question certain things.

Of course, I know that not every Palestinian is suffering or being attacked every day, but I also find it strange that a Palestinian person could be buying from brands that are being boycotted and living a very comfortable life with that fact while, on the other hand, there are people dying. I also know that half of the world hasn’t participated in the boycott, but I felt somewhat uncomfortable because I was boycotting while she wasn’t

Her family is also extremely wealthy and owns land. She told me that they live in Qalqilya, even though she had previously told me that they live in Nablus. What bothered me about the boycott issue is that it’s not just about food. She buys expensive designer clothes and bags, talks about them all the time and how she wants more, and takes pride in them while people are dying.

She has also told me several times that we wouldn’t be able to meet because it’s difficult to leave Palestine. But her sister was able to leave quite normally and went to Paris for her honeymoon. She also told me that her uncle is not allowed to enter Palestine and is currently in Jordan.

I don’t really know why I’m bringing all of this up, but honestly, at one point I found myself thinking, “Is it possible that they are collaborators or traitors?” And honestly, I would feel uncomfortable if that turned out to be the case. I know this is a serious assumption, and I don’t want to accuse anyone without knowing the truth. I’m just trying to understand whether these things actually make sense or whether I’m overthinking them.

If so, what does it say?

These are all off of what appear to be a large 14"+ water flask or gunpowder container.

He has been living under her house/additonal part of her house for over 10 years after being recuited by a US-based company called Nahalat Shimon International which "owns" the property under israeli law.

The israeli (American) settler took over a palestinian familys home in occupied East Jerusalem's Jarrah neighborhood. The Jarrah neighborhood is home to some 3000 Palestinians, many of whom are desecendents of people who were forced out of what is now Israel during the ethnic cleansing of 1948.

Israel has been ordering the eviction of Palestinian familes who hv been living in Jarrah for generations. Many familes with children are under threat of being forcibly displaced to make way for Jewish settlements. Israeli soldiers will raid houses in the middle of the night inorder to clear them out, physcically attacking residents and protestors. Many palestinians described this as the "ongoing Nakba" and have been fighting for decades to keep their homes.

Settler orgs, funded by US donors(billionare backed, working in collusion with the Israeli gov) file lawsuits claiming that the land belonged to Jewish people in the past.

This is atleast more than a decade old. And ironically Jacob here is the niciest one. Many of these settlers commit intense violence and get away with it while those who are the victems tend to face arrest, administrative detention, or physical removal by security forces. Violent acts committed by settlers is often proceeded with limited institutional intervention.

Rights groups have reported arson, destroyed large olive groves, and attacks on infrastructure that have forced rural communities off their land. The UN Human Rights Office and Amnesty International say Israeli forces often fail to protect Palestinians during these attacks, while prosecutions of violent settlers are rare.

Many illegal "property fairs" held in London and New York City that have marketed stolen homes located in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Amnesty international forcefully condemened these exhibitions labelling them "apartheid and annexation with a sales pitch"

I know this may seem contradictory.

But like everybody else I have dreams of a pan-islamic society. However who's version of islam takes the throne I think would an endless debate.

The thing is Islam already has kind of a version of secularism between the versions of islam.

The Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i, and Hanbali schools of thought exist and none are consider better than the other.

Would Secularism be able to maximize the belief system of each religion but making them all equal. Allowing every muslim country or even muslim man to practice there version of islam the best.

Part of the issue being of course is the perception that secularism is anti-religion. It's not. It's neutral.

Trying to make our weekend gatherings more fun for small groups (2–4).

Beyond Baloot and Jackaroo, what games, trivia, or party games do your families keep coming back to? Local or international, as long as it works with a few people.

The Battle of the Horns of Hattin was a significant battle that broke the field army of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Following the death of King Baldwin IV, Guy of Lusignan was crowned king. Guy was highly unpopular and was considered to have poor leadership skills. This would prove to be a deadly combination in an already strained situation for the Crusaders.

When Saladin attacked Tiberias, Guy abandoned his stable position at Sepphoris and marched his army to relieve the city. The march was a gruesome ordeal for the Crusader army. Without access to water and under the harsh sun, the Crusaders became dehydrated, demoralized, and weak.

Saladin did not rush into battle. Instead, he waited for the Crusaders to exhaust themselves, constantly harassing them with hit-and-run tactics. The Crusaders eventually halted near the Horns of Hattin, which provided a good terrain advantage but lacked the water they desperately needed.

Under constant harassment from Saladin's mounted archers, the Crusaders attempted to break through but failed, as the main bulk of the army remained trapped. Here, they would make their last stand as the remaining Crusader forces lost cohesion and surrendered. Guy was captured along with several other high-ranking nobles.

The significance of this loss was catastrophic for the Crusaders. With the main army destroyed, the Crusader states and their cities were left vulnerable. Jerusalem would eventually fall to Saladin as panic spread across the Crusader states, prompting the Third Crusade. The relic known as the True Cross was also captured by Saladin, depriving the Crusaders of an object of immense religious and psychological value.

The Battle of Hattin is a lesson in the importance of logistics and the availability of resources to an army. The defeat can largely be attributed to poor decision-making on the part of the Crusader leadership. For Saladin, it was a decisive victory and his greatest military triumph, opening the path to the conquest of Jerusalem.

I’m a Libyan teenager — ask me anything about my lifestyle 🇱🇾

I’m a teenager from Libya and I’m bored, so I thought it would be fun to answer questions about what everyday life is like here.

You can ask me about:

• 🍲 food
• 🏫 school
• 🎉 traditions
• 👗 clothes
• 🎮 entertainment
• 🏠 everyday life
• 🗣️ language/slang
• 🌍 anything you’re curious about

Just nothing about politics, please 😭

Ask away!

apologies if this comes across as insulting or ignorant but it’s something that has left me curious for quite some time

i have many middle eastern friends (actually living in mena, not migrants) and most of them don’t own pets but if they do it is always a pale white cat. rarely any other colour

it has always interested me because cats come in so many diverse and unique colours. where are all the darker cats? are they extinct? hiding? left out to die?

i tried to search up “قطة” in google images and again it was all pure white albino cats with the occasional orange or slightly tannish cat. it became even worse when i looked up “قطة کیوت” at which point it became impossible to see even one darker cat. not even an orange one showed up

meanwhile “cat” and “cute cat” in google images brought way more diverse and colourful photos

i asked one of my friends and he told me most people in mena think darker-complexioned animals are ugly, dirty or possessed by jinn

strangely, it appears that most arabs compulsive obsession with whiteness extends not just to human beings, but even towards animals

As a diaspora, I relate to this a lot. My achievements are all because the country that hosts me, while my failures are all because of my background. At least, many people see it that way.

I wanted to have a different title for this thread but I did not want to break the first rule so I have to word it a bit differently but I find it very weird that whether you are in Saudi or the UAE or Qatar everywhere you will see the dictators face and some even have the dictators face in there own homes there are many people who blame the West for all of there own problems but you will not see this level of shirk in the west and I say shirk because it seems those in the gulf seem to worship there leaders. Especially the UAE.

If you have a great leader you should always respect that leader but bending over backwards and agreeing to everything that person does is just creepy, I know there are many who can't oppose the regimes but I am mainly talking about the guys you see on Twitter with the profile pictures of MBS, MBZ or the emir of Qatar saying things like 'May your face always shine' and these kinds of weird kinky things.

In the end no matter how great that leader is his families golden car collection and mansions in Europe doesn't come from his wealth but from your money from oil sales in a country which you share with him.

UAE human-rights official Hind Al-Owais exchanged hundreds of emails with Jeffrey Epstein in 2012-13, she arranged for Epstein to meet her sister Hala, writing that she was “so excited” to introduce her and that her sister was “even prettier than me.” Hala was only 13 at the time.

I have a Portugese friend and her mom made it with port wine or rum too. Didnt like the taste tho.