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What new information has emerged about Shamsa?
And presumably if you're there as a guest worker, you get kicked out once you lose your job.
Yeah, exactly. Or you get to a certain age that might be retirement age and you have to retire elsewhere. Right.
Okay, let's get to the next listener question. How much does Islamic law figure into Dubai's secular legal system? And can you drink booze there?
Two very important questions. I will handle the booze question first. So yes, you absolutely can drink alcohol there. One of these emirates, Sharjah, is a dry emirate. So there's no alcohol served there. It's a dry state.
This is probably why most people haven't heard of Sharjah.
Poor Sharjah. But yes, so you absolutely can drink booze in Dubai. One thing I do think is funny is that if you listen to radio ads there, they actually like can't say the words wine and champagne. They'll have to use code words like bubbly or like I'm making this up like grapes, 50 dirhams for dinner and grape.
What does that mean? So you can drink it, but you can't say it. Exactly. Not on the national radio. Yeah.
The other thing I was going to say was that in order to have a liquor license, like typically you have to be inside a hotel. So that's that's kind of one of the limitations. But that's the reason why a lot of the nightclubs and a lot of the bars are within hotels.
Oh, that's so interesting. Yeah. Okay, let's go to the next listener question. Do women really have to get permission from a male relative to travel?
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