Avenues is so big you’re now going to need to fly to get from one side to the other.
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Avenues is so big you’re now going to need to fly to get from one side to the other.
14 replies on “Avenues Opening in Bahrain”
Oh god they should start an airline.
Hahahaha
is this for real?????
Completely. I believe it’s Alshaya owned and/or operated and/or franchised because Mabanee owns the rights to the Avenues brand and now they’re taking it internationally.
The one in Bahrain isn’t going to be on the same scale as the Kuwait one though; this one will only be one floor above ground and have around 100-200 shops at most. The site is 265000 square meters and will include things like a park, outdoor promenades, movie theaters and entertainment options but only 38000 square meters of them will be devoted to the mall itself.
They’re also pretty proud of the fact that they’ll have a water taxi service that’ll allow people to get around by boat. Maybe our Avenues is working on the same thing…
Water taxi? Damn, feels like such a waste of water.
No shit
Avenues is breaking all manner of records from day to day. But the one dubious distinction Avenues Kuwait will always have is going down the annals of shopping mall history for being the mall with the largest gross leasable area in the world to NOT have a single decent bookstore tenant. That-al- Salaasil is more of a newsstand if it’s even open these days so that doesn’t really count. Bravo Alek, ya Avenues Kuwait! 🙂
That Al-Salasil is an embarrassing excuse for/of a bookstore but the sad truth is that as long as Kuwait’s archaic and mind-blowingly nonsensical censorship continues to exist, we’re not going to attract anything better.
When in doubt, Kinokuniya in Dubai.
Khaled, censorship exists because of the Parliament and active political participation of Kuwaiti citizens. You see here in Kuwait, we have a parliament with MPs that have actual legislative powers. These MPs want their country to be run based on Muslim values. When you have a parliament with actual legislative powers, you can’t have books that the Kuwaiti people don’t approve of. That is democracy. Some call it tyranny of the majority, others don’t think the notion of democracy is compatible with Muslim societies
Personally, I think that democracy is incompatible with Muslim societies therefore every Muslim country should have a system of autocracy. Autocracy ensures that the Muslim country is more ‘free’ in terms of accommodating to Westerners and their ways of life
In the United Arab Emirates, they don’t have any semblance of democracy and any semblance of political participation among citizens, but they still have archaic medieval laws like flogging, stoning, death for apostasy.
The United Arab Emirates actually has more Islamic Laws than Kuwait. Kuwait’s legal system is more secular than UAE’s legal system.
For example, in the United Arab Emirates they have the following Islamic laws:
– Flogging (judicial corporal punishment)
– Stoning
– Death penalty for apostasy
– Death penalty for homosexuality
– Criminalizing many rape victims because Islamic law stipulates four witnesses for rape
They stone people to death in the UAE. In May 2014, an Asian housemaid was sentenced to death by stoning
https://emirateswoman.com/2014/05/05/woman-sentenced-death-stoning-abu-dhabi/#.VBxD2_ldVfA
Stoning people to death is barbaric and medieval. They also lash people in the UAE. Why does the UAE have medieval punishments?
You’re exaggerating about book censorship in Kuwait. Other Gulf countries have strict censorship and probably have bigger book censorship than Kuwait.
The UAE and its seven emirates don’t publish a full list of all the books they’ve banned. In Kuwait we have more transparency in regards to what has been banned
People tend to exaggerate about certain things when it comes to Kuwait. There are plenty of Arabic books that were present in Kuwait but banned in Dubai. Most books in the Gulf are Arabic
Not to mention the WH Smith store is a bit of a bore :/
And many ‘like yourself’ tend to compare everything with the gulf or dubai. Who dubbed them as the shrine of civilizations or the benchmark of excellence?!
nice one, i chuckled!
For prestige sake, if nothing else and even if it is going to be a loss making proposition the Al Shayas or the Jashanmals ought to bring the Kinokuniya or the Barnes & Nobles label to the Avenues.