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With so many creatives and concepts coming out of their shells in Kuwait, the demand to get work done in a home away from home is only increasing. While it's always fun to go to a coffee house to tap away some id
Before you start going left to right, top to bottom with your eyes (I could have just said: reading), allow me to preface: your boss, be it another person or yourself, owes you the outmost respect, that is your r
Ah, bonjour mes amis! No, bazaar Magazine is not becoming French, otherwise they would be surrendering to the market trend (see what I did there? If you didn’t see, it’s a WW2 reference). It just seemed ve
Recently, as part of a group of colleagues spending the day in a professional development workshop, we were required to play a "game." The facilitator gave each 3 beans. Essentially, the beans represented "med
There is a common misconception that the ultimate goal of enlightenment is attained when profession and purpose coalesce; become a single entity, a 'pufession', if you will. However, it is this writer's humble opi
Him: “Oh wow George, you must be running out of ideas to choose to write such a clichéd statement.” Me: “Nah fam! It’s just that no one has ever explained it.” The “him” in question quits his job an
In a society that is built upon the need for employment, a fall from grace can cause a whirlpool of negativity, where the subject of employment brings great pride to mothers like, “my baby is a doctor/engineer/a
It's that time of year for many of us again: when we return from the exodus that July promises, returning to the empty streets of Kuwait during the just-as-scorching month of August. That's right, folks. We all h
The rules are simple, and the game is best played with a group. What you do is: Round up a list of the years in which people were born, and then you go on Youtube and type in your birth year, combined with the w
Like many other working men and women of Kuwait, we love to order lunch to the office. It saves so much time and worry (and gives us a cheeky extra 20 minutes to sleep in!) But we have to be picky based on our loc
Sunday mornings are grumpy mornings and Sunday mornings just after a vacation are unkind and evil. The coffee tastes bitter, alarm clock rings in too soon, shoes don’t match with the socks, traffic jams get horr
Got business problems or challenges at work? With his Two Cents page, Loaay Ahmed shares his expertise in strategic management consulting to help managers, employees and entrepreneurs thrive. Q: Cultural
In this month’s column we feature designer Danah Abdal an artist at heart with a flair for all things communication and design-related. Born in Kuwait to a Kuwaiti father and Palestinian mother, she grew up as s