Mahmood's Den

Saudi women in an extremely surprising development get elected to the board of directors of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce.
Congratulations Lama Al Suleiman and Nashwa Taher, I wonder when people in so called liberated Bahrain will start voting for women to hold office here? Unfortunately they didn’t fair very well in the recent Chamber of [...]

The government is being so amateurish lately that it boggles the mind how they actually continue to believe that the only way to rule is by sweeping problems under carpets, rather than courageously coming out and facing them head on. Isn’t this attitude the very thing that started the “troubles” of the ’90s?
We have a [...]

We shouldn’t really cry over Friday sermons delivered by a right honourable member of parliament, religious leader and imam Shaikh Jassim Al-Saidi when he ends his sermons with:

اللهم إلعن اليهود و النصارى و الرافضه و أرني فيهم يوماً أسود
Oh Allah curse the Jews, Christians and the Shi’a and show me in them a black day.
Al-Wasat
The [...]

Bahrain doesn’t allow gun ownership and possession unless specifically authorised by the Interior Minister himself. So the only ones who do carry guns about their person are mostly members of the police and members of the military police (who I suspect are allowed to take their guns with them at the end of their duty?) [...]

The Unstoppabulls Karting tem is all set for the Red Bull 25 hours Endurance Karting Race that is scheduled to be hosted at the Seef Track from Thursday 1st December to Friday 2nd December. Under the patronage of HH Shaikh Khalifa bin Hamed bin Isa Al Khalifa, organized by Dubai based Sports Star and sanctioned [...]

Unstoppabulls racer Shaikh Salman bin Rashid Al Khalifa who is the current Formula BMW Asia Champion has confirmed his participation in the Formula BMW Race of Champions due to be hosted on 3rd December in Paris. Shaikh Salman was sponsored by Unstoppabulls Racing Team, owned by HH Shaikh Khalifa bin Hamed bin Isa Al Khalifa [...]

click image for more about this present and actual threat to the Hawar Islands’ environment
Hawar Islands, the group of islands to the south of us that this country has gone to war for, both morally and physically as well as through the International Court of Justice which we have eventually won, is about to be [...]

Under the patronage of HH Shaikh Khalifa bin Hamed bin Isa Al Khalifa – the Red Bull 25hour Endurance Karting Race will be hosted at the Seef Track in the Kingdom of Bahrain from 1st to 2nd December. The event has been organized by Sports Stars and sanctioned by the Bahrain Motor Federation.
With the unfaltering [...]

We’ll be meeting at Cappucino Cafe in Saar Starbucks in Zinj on Thursday (Dec 1st) at 8pm. You’re more than welcome to join us if you’re around. Let us know whether you’re coming please so we at least know approximate numbers.

FALSE ALARM!Thanks to all those who reported. The site is fine and it appears a problem crept into my ADSL router at home, reset to factory defaults and reconfigured. I can access it fine now, although why originally I couldn’t connect to it normally but can through a proxy is mystery I would like to [...]