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Traditionally, in the Middle East, a young man’s first amorous approach to a woman is supposed to be a marriage proposal made by his parents to her parents. Among UAE nationals, it is generally considered impolite for a man to speak to a woman he is neither married nor related to in public.

But the cards, scraps of paper and mobile phone messages that pass from male to female are testament to the double existence of some young UAE nationals as they take their love lives into their own hands.

It happening in malls, cinemas and cafes - in Dubai’s notorious traffic jams, and now by mobile phone.

As part of a series on young people in the Middle East, the BBC News website discovers how technology is aiding the secret liaisons of young men and women in the conservative culture of the United Arab Emirates

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