The Rules of the Avenues

Avenues have a new set of rules not allowing you to use their names for nefarious purposes.


Here is their announcement:



For those who can't read Arabic, allow me to translate it for you:


1st RULE: You do not talk about Avenues.

2nd RULE: You DO NOT talk about Avenues.

3rd RULE: If someone says "stop" or goes limp, taps out the shopping is over.

4th RULE: Only two guys to a shop.

5th RULE: One shop at a time.

6th RULE: No shirts, no shoes, no entry.

7th RULE: Shopping will go on as long as they have to.

8th RULE: If this is your first night at Avenues, you HAVE to shop.

Kuwait: The class of 1990

On August 2, 1990, the Iraqi army invaded the emirate of Kuwait, which Saddam Hussein, the then Iraqi president, had declared Iraq's 19th province. At the end of the school year of 1990, students in an international school in Kuwait said their final farewells as they headed off for the summer holidays. Many of them would never meet again. Twenty years on, Al Jazeera's Nashwa Nasreldin returns to Kuwait to find out what happened to her friends and the school during the war that separated them.




It is 47:46 minutes long but very touching.