Comments on: No passports needed to visit Saudi

By: mahmood

mahmood — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 02:54:58 +0000

With or without passports they will come, and are welcome! And my few pictures of beautiful people are only a micro selection of what we see day in and day out in Bahrain. All you have to do is take a stroll in any of the malls.

Can you imagine what life will be like in Bahrain without the huge income generated due to Saudi?

Yes, the stereotypical view is that they’re like randy inebriated goats (and that brush paints all Arabs in any case) but they do have decent people who come here to do business, take part in cultural events and other non-sex-alcohol related pursuits.

What the removal of the need for the passport will do is help people like me for instance who do business in Saudi and would benefit more if I can go there on the spur of the moment to conduct a transaction rather than have to continuously plan the trip unnecessarily.

To reiterate my points:

1. Saudis are more than welcome in Bahrain, the more the merrier.
2. Doing away with passports for traveling to Saudi is long overdue and it too is welcome.
3. Should any visitor to Bahrain break our laws, out judicial system should see to it that the laws are applied evenly which will deter anyone from breaking it.
4. The Ministry of Interior should concentrate much more on road safety and provide much more officers on the road who actually do bother stopping cars and drivers who break the law rather than just let them go for fear of doing more paperwork, or fear of being shouted at and humiliated by those who consider themselves high and mighty!

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By: Jade

Jade — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 02:13:16 +0000

No passports required – congratulations!

Does this now mean that even more Saudis are going to flood over to the “Happy Island” watering holes every weekend?

With the additional benefit of Mahmood’s promotional Bahrain Babes campaign, the island’s tourism industry is certainly going to take off.

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By: mahmood

mahmood — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:02:25 +0000

I’ve installed a new and improved cache manager, I hope this helps a bit.

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By: Moclippa

Moclippa — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:43:36 +0000

Works fine for me

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By: mahmood

mahmood — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:53:19 +0000

does anyone else have this problem?

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By: Nawaf

Nawaf — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:53:25 +0000

why does it take sooo long to load any page on this website??

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By: Global Voices بالعربية » الأرشيف » البحرينيون والسفر إلى السعوديّة عبر بطاقة الهويّة

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:06:56 +0000

[...] العربيّة السعوديّة عير استخدام بطاقات الهويّة فحسب, يخبرنا المدوّن محمود [...]

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By: ammaro.com

ammaro.com — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:29:37 +0000

providing such a regional visa should be subjective in the sense of why it was given; ie, tourist visa? employment? long/short term?

but honestly, it wont happen anytime soon. Saudi is blatantly going to reject having people step into their country without their specific approval first. Hell, its hard enough getting a visa for saudi through their embassy unless you know someone there!

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By: Grace

Grace — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:27:28 +0000

I agree with Moclippa, a unified visa would not to justice to our different legal frameworks not to mention policies in terms of being eligible.

Could you imagine everybody who gets a visa into Dubai, be able to travel all over the Gulf states without being cross-checked first? Its not a matter of loose freedoms its a matter of national security and the preservation of our culture and the safety of our streets.

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By: Global Voices Online » Bahrainis to Travel to Saudi Using ID Cards

Global Voices Online » Bahrainis to Travel to Saudi Using ID Cards — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:14:14 +0000

[...] will soon be able to travel to Saudi Arabia using just their ID cards, reports Mahmood Al Yousif. Share [...]

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