Lindsay Lohan celebrates her engagement in Kuwait

Lindsay Lohan is celebrating her engagement to Bader Shammas in Kuwait this week.

The Mean Girls star is engaged to Dubai financier Shammas, who proposed to the actress in November.

From what appears to be a hotel room, Lohan shared a photo of a two-tiered cake, topped with a decorative engagement ring in a box, which reads, "He asked, she said yes."

The cake has a blue and white decoration with the silhouette of a couple in black.

On the base, it says, "Congratulations on your engagement", with the date November 11.

Lohan posted a photo with Shammas on Instagram, captioning it, "My forever."

Earlier in the day, Lohan posted a video of the Kuwait Towers and a photo of smoothies from Madison & Heig, a bistro and bakery in Kuwait City.

In February, Lohan spoke about her engagement for the first time during an Extra interview. When she was asked whether she is turning into a bridezilla, she said: "I'm definitely not like that. I'm more low-key. Even on my birthday, I want to make sure everyone else is good. And then I can be OK.

"So, I'll be more like that. I'm looking at destinations. I've already started talking to a friend of mine about the dress. But I want to do things right and I want to pace everything."

Lohan confirmed that she will be wearing several dresses on her big day. "That’s the best part," she said.

Shammas, a financier who also lives in Dubai, is assistant vice president at Credit Suisse. He and Lohan were first spotted together at a Dubai music festival in early 2020, before the start of the pandemic.

Lohan also discussed her feelings about Dubai, which she has called home for the past eight years. “What I love about Dubai is that there's a sort of serenity that I find there. Maybe it's because it's so far outside the entertainment side of the world … But I feel a peace and a solace that I don't get anywhere else.

“So when I moved there, I had all this time to look at myself and see how I want to do things in the future, what makes me happy, and how I can be my best at doing them.”

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Tamadir bint Amr Al Harith, known simply as Al Khasan, was a poet from Najd famed for elegies, earning great renown for the eulogy of her brothers Mu’awiyah and Sakhr, both killed in tribal wars. Although not a salonnière, this prestigious 7th century poet fostered a culture of literary criticism and could be found standing in the souq of Okaz and reciting her poetry, publicly pronouncing her views and inviting others to join in the debate on scholarship. She later converted to Islam.

Maryana Marrash (Aleppo)

A poet and writer, Marrash helped revive the tradition of the salon and was an active part of the Nadha movement, or Arab Renaissance. Born to an established family in Aleppo in Ottoman Syria in 1848, Marrash was educated at missionary schools in Aleppo and Beirut at a time when many women did not receive an education. After touring Europe, she began to host salons where writers played chess and cards, competed in the art of poetry, and discussed literature and politics. An accomplished singer and canon player, music and dancing were a part of these evenings.

Princess Nazil Fadil (Cairo)

Princess Nazil Fadil gathered religious, literary and political elite together at her Cairo palace, although she stopped short of inviting women. The princess, a niece of Khedive Ismail, believed that Egypt’s situation could only be solved through education and she donated her own property to help fund the first modern Egyptian University in Cairo.

Mayy Ziyadah (Cairo)

Ziyadah was the first to entertain both men and women at her Cairo salon, founded in 1913. The writer, poet, public speaker and critic, her writing explored language, religious identity, language, nationalism and hierarchy. Born in Nazareth, Palestine, to a Lebanese father and Palestinian mother, her salon was open to different social classes and earned comparisons with souq of where Al Khansa herself once recited.

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